Atmospheric Oxygen Photoabsorption
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- Publication date
- 1996-12-02
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- Public Domain
- Topics
- IO, JUPITER (PLANET), EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION, SATELLITE OBSERVATION, EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET EXPLORER SATELLITE, EMISSION SPECTRA, SHOEMAKER-LEVY 9 COMET, PHOTONS, BRIGHTNESS
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- nasa_techdocs
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- NASA
- Language
- English
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- Public Domain
The work conducted on this grant was devoted to various aspects of the photophysics and photochemistry of the oxygen molecule. Predissociation linewidths were measured for several vibrational levels in the O2(B3 Sigma(sub u)(sup -)) state, providing good agreement with other groups working on this important problem. Extensive measurements were made on the loss kinetics of vibrationally excited oxygen, where levels between v = 5 and v = 22 were investigated. Cavity ring-down spectroscopy was used to measure oscillator strengths in the oxygen Herzberg bands. The great sensitivity of this technique made it possible to extend the known absorption bands to the dissociation limit as well as providing many new absorption lines that seem to be associated with new O2 transitions. The literature concerning the Herzberg band strengths was evaluated in light of our new measurements, and we made recommendations for the appropriate Herzberg continuum cross sections to be used in stratospheric chemistry. The transition probabilities for all three Herzberg band systems were re-evaluated, and we are recommending a new set of values.
- Accession-id
- 97N17200
- Addeddate
- 2011-05-23 05:53:59
- Document-source
- CASI
- Documentid
- 19970013278
- Identifier
- nasa_techdoc_19970013278
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t9j39n52r
- Nasa-center
- Ames Research Center
- Ocr
- ABBYY FineReader 8.0
- Online-source
- http://wayback.archive-it.org/1792/20100210145011/http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19970013278
- Original-nasa-rights
- Unclassified; No Copyright; Unlimited; Publicly available; Final Report
- Ppi
- 300
- Report-number
- NAS 1.26:203311; NASA-CR-203311
- Updated-added-to-ntrs
- 2005-08-25
- Year
- 1996
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