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Beiting & Feldman 1978
Beiting, E.J. and Feldman, P.D. (1978). A search for nitric oxide gamma band emission in an aurora. Geophysical Research Letters 5: doi: 10.1029/GL005i001p00051. issn: 0094-8276.

A strong emission feature at 2150 ¿ has been observed by a rocket-borne spectrophotometer in an IBC II+ aurora. This feature, commonly identified with the NO &ggr; (1,0) band, is comparable in intensity to the nearby N2 Vegard-Kaplan bands. Comparison of the observed spectra with a theoretically produced synthetic spectrum allows all but this feature to be assigned to N2 transitions. No bands of the v'=0 or 2 progressions or any other bands from v'=1 appear, casting serious doubt on the identification of this feature as the NO &ggr; (1,0) band.

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