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The height of the lower red border of type-B aurora has been determined by triangulation using TV cameras at two ground stations. A mean height of 91.4 ± 1.1 km was determined from a set of 12 measurements made under ideal conditions. A TV spectrograph was used simultaneously to seek possible spectral changes between 6400 and 6900 Å which would be indicative of changes in the vibrational distribution in the N2 First Positive bands. No significant difference was found in this distribution between the spectra from 93 and 122 km. The height distribution of contributions to the OI 5577 Å emission relative to the N+2 First Negative emission was modelled from 80 to 160 km. Contributions from electron impact on atomic O, O+2 dissociative recombination and N2(A)O energy transfer were included. Account was taken of recent laboratory data on O(1S) quenching. It was concluded that these processes could explain the excitation of O(1S) in normal aurora and the height distribution of OI 5577 Å in type-B red aurora. It was confirmed that the lifetime ofO(1S) in type-B red auroral rapid time variations is about 0.5 s and it was found from the model that the observed time variation can be reproduced by the mechanisms considered, provided the concentration of NO in the auroral atmosphere is about 1 × 109 at 95 km. Before reasonable certainty can be attained in the correctness of the interpretation it will however be necessary to have reliable simultaneous observations of neutral atmospheric composition particularly for O and NO as well as unchallengeable measurements of the yields of O(1S) for the processes considered and for several other processes which have been suggested recently. 相似文献
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Results of the scattered solar radiation spectrum measurements made deep in the Venus atmosphere by the Venera 11 and 12 descent probes are presented. The instrument had two channels: spectrometric (to measure downward radiation in the range 0.45 < γ < 1.17 μm) and photometric (four filters and circular angle scanning in an almost vertical plane). Spectra and angular scans were made in the height range from 63 km above the planet surface. The integral flux of solar radiation is 90 ± 12 W m?2 measured on the surface at the subsolar point. The mean value of surface absorbed radiation flux per planetary unit area is 17.5 ± 2.3 W m?2. For Venera 11 and 12 landing sites the atmospheric absorbed radiation flux is ～15 W m?2 for H >; 43 km and ～45 W m?2 for H < 48 km in the range 0.45 to 1.55 μm. At the landing sites of the two probes the investigated portion of the cloud layer has almost the same structure: it consists of three parts with boundaries between them at about 51 and 57 km. The base of clouds is near 48 km above the surface. The optical depth of the cloud layer (below 63 km) in the range 0.5 to 1 μm does not depend on the wavelength and is ～29 and ～38 for the Venera 11 and 12 landing sites, respectively. The single-scattering albedo, ω0, in the clouds is very close to 1 outside the absorption bands. Below 58 km the parameter (1 ? ω0) is <10?3 for 0.49 and 0.7 μm. The parameter (1 ? ω0) obviously increases above 60 km. Below 48 km some aerosol is present. The optical depth here is a strong function of wavelength. It varies from 1.5 to 3 at λ = 0.49 μm and from 0.13 to 0.4 at 1.0 μm. The mean size of particles below the cloud deck is about 0.1 μm. Below 35 km true absorption was found at λ < 0.55 μm with the (1 ? ω0) maximum at H ≈ 15 km. The wavelength and height dependence of the absorption coefficient are compatible with the assumption that sulfur with a mixing ratio ～2 × 10?8 normalized to S2 molecules is the absorber. The upper limits of the mixing ratio for Cl2, Br2, and NO2 are 4 × 10?8, 2 × 10?11, and 4 × 10?10, respectively. The CO2 and H2O bands are confidently identified in the observed spectra. The mean value of the H2O mixing ratio is 3 × 10?5 < FH2O < 10?4 in the undercloud atmosphere. The H2O mixing ratio evidently varies with height. The most probable profile is characterized by a gradual increase from FH2O = 2 × 10?5 near the surface to a 10 to 20 times higher value in the clouds. 相似文献
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The infrared AOTF spectrometer is a part of the SPICAM experiment onboard the Mars-Express ESA mission. The instrument has a capability of solar occultations and operates in the spectral range of 1-1.7 μm with a spectral resolution of ∼3.5 cm−1. We report results from 24 orbits obtained during MY28 at Ls 130°-160°, and the latitude range of 40°-55° N. For these orbits the atmospheric density from 1.43 μm CO2 band, water vapor mixing ratio based on 1.38 μm absorption, and aerosol opacities were retrieved simultaneously. The vertical resolution of measurements is better than 3.5 km. Aerosol vertical extinction profiles were obtained at 10 wavelengths in the altitude range from 10 to 60 km. The interpretation using Mie scattering theory with adopted refraction indices of dust and H2O ice allows to retrieve particle size (reff∼0.5-1 μm) and number density (∼1 cm−3 at 15-30 km) profiles. The haze top is generally below 40 km, except the longitude range of 320°-50° E, where high-altitude clouds at 50-60 km were detected. Optical properties of these clouds are compatible with ice particles (effective radius reff=0.1-0.3 μm, number density N∼10 cm−3) distributed with variance νeff=0.1-0.2 μm. The vertical optical depth of the clouds is below 0.001 at 1 μm. The atmospheric density profiles are retrieved from CO2 band in the altitude range of 10-90 km, and H2O mixing ratio is determined at 15-50 km. Unless a supersaturation of the water vapor occurs in the martian atmosphere, the H2O mixing ratio indicates ∼5 K warmer atmosphere at 25-45 km than predicted by models. 相似文献
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Jeffrey M. Forbes 《Planetary and Space Science》1982,30(10):1065-1072
A numerical model is utilized to investigate the temperature (T) and solar zenith angle (χ) control of D-region positive ion chemistry between 75 and 90 km. It is assumed that NO? is the precursor ion in a chain which involves three-body formation of the intermediary cluster ions NO+(H2O)m?1(X) (m = 1–3), where X can be N2,O2, H2O, or CO2, switching reactions which convert these weakly bound clusters to hydrates of NO+ and reaction of the third hydrate of NO+ with H2O to initiate the chain to form H+(H2O)n (n = 1–7). Zonal mean and tidal temperatures from rocket observations and theory are synthesized to obtain the best available estimate of mean latitudinal, seasonal and local time variations of temperature in this height region. Relative compositions of NO+(H2O)m and H+(H2O)n are found to vary widely over the complete range of realistic conditions; however, the relative ion populations are entirely explicable in terms of the effects of χ and T on the relative life-times of the intermediary ion clusters with respect to recombination, switching and thermal decomposition. For instance, as χ increases (and electron production decreases) beyond 60° for a given temperature, the recombination times of the intermediate ion cluster species lengthen with respect to the formation time of the H+ water clusters, causing the relative H+ water cluster population to increase and thus raise the level where the cluster ion and NO+ concentrations are equal from about 85 km (normal midday) to 90 km. For a given χ the concentrations of NO+H2O and H+(H2O)4 increase (decrease) for temperatures less than (greater than) 190 and 205 K, respectively. The transition occurs when the temperature becomes sufficiently high that the lifetimes of intermediary ion clusters with respect to thermal decomposition become less than their lifetimes with respect to H2O switching (which ultimately leads to the third hydrate of NO+ and entry into the water chain). At this point, the formation time of H+(H2O)4 becomes long compared with its lifetime with respect to thermal decomposition and its relative concentration decreases also. Implications of these results with respect to studies of the D-region are discussed. 相似文献
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Altitude distributions of electronically excited atoms and molecules of oxygen and nitrogen in the aurora have been obtained by means of rocket-borne wavelength scanning interference filter photometers launched from Fort Churchill, Manitoba (58.4°N, 94.1°W) on January 23, 1974. Atomic oxygen densities derived from mass spectrometer measurements obtained during the flight are used in conjunction with the volume emission rate ratio of the N2(C3Πu?B3Πg) (0-0) second positive and N2(A3Σu+, v = 1?X1Σg+) Vegard-Kaplan bands to derive a rate constant for quenching of the N2(A3Σu+, v = 1) level with O(3P) of 1.7(±0.8) × 10?11 cm3 s?1 These data, together with O den derived from the O2(b1Σg+) state nightglow emission observed during the rocket ascent, suggest that quenching of the N2(A3Σu+, v = 1) level by O2 has a significant positive temperature dependence. The processes involved in the production and loss of the N2(A3Σu+) state are considered and energy transfer from the N2(A3Σu+) state to O(3P) is found to be a significant source of the OI 5577 Å green line in this aurora at altitudes below 130 km. Emission from the NO(A2Σ+?X2Π) gamma bands was not detected, an observation which is consistent with the mass spectrometer data obtained during the flight indicating that the NO density was <108 cm3 at 110 km. On the basis of previous rocket and satellite measurements of the NO gamma bands, energy transfer from the N2(A3Σu+) state to NO(X2Π) is shown to be an insignificant source of the gamma bands in aurora. Altitude profiles of the N2(a1Πg?X1Σg+) Lyman-Birge-Hopfield band system are presented. 相似文献
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《Planetary and Space Science》1987,35(10):1317-1321
In this study a method is outlined which is capable of giving neutral temperatures and height changes in the aurora when the molecular emissions originate from the E-region.Absolute spectrometric measurements of N2+ 1NG and O2+ 1NG bands and the auroral green line are performed in a nightside aurora. Rotational temperatures and band intensities are deduced by a least-squares fit of synthetic spectra to observations. There is a close correlation between the variations in rotational temperatures and the relative intensity ratio of N2+ 1NG(0,3) and O2+ 1NG(1,0) bands. The change in the relative intensity ratio is similar to the intensity variation predicted by the changing N2 and O2 densities from 120 to 150 km, obtained from the MSIS 83 model atmosphere, and the derived neutral temperature variations are consistent with a similar change in emission height of the aurora. Therefore the changing temperature is most likely due to a changing emission height of the aurora, and no local heating can be inferred. 相似文献
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It is shown that Titan's surface and plausible atmospheric thermal opacity sources—gaseous N2, CH4, and H2, CH4 cloud, and organic haze—are sufficient to match available Earth-based and Voyager observations of Titan's thermal emission spectrum. Dominant sources of thermal emission are the surface for wavelenghts λ ? 1 cm, atmospheric N2 for 1 cm ? λ ? 200 μm,, condensed and gaseous CH4 for 200 μm ? λ ? 20 μm, and molecular bands and organic haze for λ ? 20 μm. Matching computed spectra to the observed Voyager IRIS spectra at 7.3 and 52.7° emission angles yields the following abundances and locations of opacity sources: CH4 clouds: 0.1 g cm? at a planetocentric radius of 2610–2625 km, 0.3 g cm?2 at 2590–2610 km, total 0.4 ± 0.1 g cm–2 above 2590 km; organic haze: above 2750 km; tropospheric H2: 0.3 ± 0.1 mol%. This is the first quantitative estimate of the column density of condensed methane (or CH4/C2H6) on Titan. Maximum transparency in the middle to far IR occurs at 19 μm where the atmospheric vertical absorption optical depth is A particle radius in the upper portion of the CH4 cloud is indicated by the apparent absence of scattering effects. 相似文献
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Measurements of the twilight enhancement of airglow emission from O+(2P) near 7325 Å reveal major changes which accompany geomagnetic activity, no significant distance between evening and morning and an increase in brightness paralleling the approach to solar maximum. The principal source for O+(2P) is direct photoionization from O(3P) but at low solar activity there appears to be a contribution from another source in early twilight which may be local photoelectron ionization into O+(2P). The geomagnetic and solar effects appear to reflect changes in the O and N2 density in the thermosphere; ground based twilight measurements of O+ emissions thus provide a simple means for monitoring thermospheric structure from 300 km to ～ 500 km at solar minimum and to ～600 km at solar maximum. 相似文献
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I.C. McDade E.J. Llewellyn R.G.H. Greer D.P. Murtagh 《Planetary and Space Science》1982,30(11):1133-1136
A simple vibrational relaxation model which reproduces the observed altitude integrated vibrational distribution of the Herzberg I bands in the nightglow is used to derive the altitude profiles of the individual vibrational levels at 1 km intervals in the 85–115 km height range. The possible errors associated with using rocket-borne photometer measurements of a limited number of bands in the O2(A3Σu+?X3Σg?) system to infer the total Herzberg I emission profile are assessed. 相似文献
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Previously published solar abundances of oxygen and carbon can be corrected to be logN(O) = 8.93 and logN(C) = 8.60 on the hydrogen log-scale when new accurate forbidden electric quadrupole transition probabilities A
Q(s–1) are used. Such A
Q's, based on the new atomic structure and electron correlation theory, developed recently by Sinanolu and coworkers, are reported for the (1
S
0-1
D
2) lines of [C i], [N ii, [O i] and [O iii] and the (2
P-2
D) lines of [N i] and [O ii]. The available experimental values are also given for comparison.Work supported by Grant No. GP-29471 from the U.S. National Science Foundation. 相似文献
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Robert E. NovakMichael J. Mumma Michael A. DiSanti Neil Dello Russo Karen Magee-Sauer 《Icarus》2002,158(1):14-23
We present absolute abundances and latitudinal variations of ozone and water in the atmosphere of Mars during its late northern spring (Ls=67.3°) shortly before aphelion. Long-slit maps of the a1Δg state of molecular oxygen (O2) and HDO, an isotopic form of water, were acquired on UT January 21.6 1997 using a high-resolution infrared spectrometer (CSHELL) at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility. O2(a1Δg) is produced by ozone photolysis, and the ensuing dayglow emission at 1.27 μm is used as a tracer for ozone. Retrieved vertical column densities for ozone above ∼20 km ranged between 1.5 and 2.8 μm-atm at mid- to low latitudes (30°S-60°N) and decreased outside that region. A significant decrease in ozone density is seen near 30°N (close to the subsolar latitude of 23.5°N). The rotational temperatures retrieved from O2(a-X) emissions show a mean of 172±2.5 K, confirming that the sensed ozone lies in the middle atmosphere (∼24 km). The ν1 fundamental band of HDO near 3.67 μm was used as a proxy for H2O. The retrieved vertical column abundance of water varies from 3 precipitable microns (pr-μm) at ∼30°S to 24 pr-μm at ∼60°N. We compare these results with current photochemical models and with measurements obtained by other methods. 相似文献
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This VIRTIS instrument on board Venus Express has collected spectrally resolved images of the Venus nightside limb that show the presence of the (0,0) band of the infrared atmospheric system of O2 at 1.27 μm. The emission is produced by three-body recombination of oxygen atoms created by photodissociation of CO2 on the dayside. It is consistently bright so that emission limb profiles can be extracted from the images. The vertical distribution of O2() may be derived following Abel inversion of the radiance limb profiles. Assuming photochemical equilibrium, it is combined with the CO2 vertical distribution to determine the atomic oxygen density. The uncertainties on the O density caused by the Abel inversion reach a few percent at the peak, increasing to about 50% near 120 km. We first analyze a case when the CO2 density was derived from a stellar occultation observed with the SPICAV spectrometer simultaneously with an image of the O2 limb airglow. In other cases, an average CO2 profile deduced from a series of ultraviolet stellar occultations is used to derive the O profile, leading to uncertainties on the O density less than 30%. It is found that the maximum O density is generally located between 94 and 115 km with a mean value of 104 km. It ranges from less than 1×1011 to about 5×1011 cm−3 with a global mean of 2.2×1011 cm−3. These values are in reasonable agreement with the VIRA midnight oxygen profile. The vertical O distribution is generally in good agreement with the oxygen profile calculated with a one-dimensional chemical-diffusive model. No statistical latitudinal dependence of the altitude of the oxygen peak is observed, but the maximum O density tends to decrease with increasing northern latitudes. The latitudinal distribution at a given time exhibits large variations in the O density profile and its vertical structure. The vertical oxygen distribution frequently shows multiple peaks possibly caused by waves or variations in the structure of turbulent transport. It is concluded that the O2 infrared night airglow is a powerful tool to map the distribution of atomic oxygen in the mesosphere between 90 and 115 km and improve future Venus reference atmosphere models. 相似文献
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A radiative–conductive model for the vertical thermal structure of Pluto's atmosphere is developed with a non-LTE treatment of solar heating in the CH43.3 μm and 2.3 μm bands, non-LTE radiative exchange and cooling in the CH47.6 μm band, and LTE cooling by CO rotational line emission. The model includes the effects of opacity and vibrational energy transfer in the CH4molecule. Partial thermalization of absorbed solar radiation in the CH43.3 and 2.3 μm bands by rapid vibrational energy transfer from the stretch modes to the bending modes generates high altitude heating at sub-microbar pressures. Heating in the 2.3 μm bands exceeds heating in 3.3 μm bands by approximately a factor of 6 and occurs predominantly at microbar pressures to generate steep temperature gradients ∼10–20 K km−1forp> 2 μbar when the surface or tropopause pressure is ∼3 μbar and the CH4mixing ratio is a constant 3%. This calculated structure may account for the “knee” in the stellar occultation lightcurve. The vertical temperature structure in the first 100 km above the surface is similar for atmospheres with Ar, CO, and N2individually as the major constituent. If a steep temperature gradient ∼20 K km−1is required near the surface or above the tropopause, then the preferred major constituent is Ar with 3% CH4mixing ratio to attain a calculated ratio ofT/(= 3.5 K amu−1) in agreement with inferred values from stellar occultation data. However, pure Ar and N2ices at the same temperature yield an Ar vapor pressure of only ∼0.04 times the N2vapor pressure. Alternative scenarios are discussed that may yield acceptable fits with N2as the dominant constituent. One possibility is a 3 μbar N2atmosphere with 0.3% CH4that has 106 K isothermal region (T/= 3.8 K amu−1) and ∼8 K km−1surface/tropopause temperature gradient. Another possibility would be a higher surface pressure ∼10 μbar with a scattering haze forp> 2 μbar. Our model with appropriate adjustments in the CH4density profile to Triton's inferred profile yields a temperature profile consistent with the UVS solar occultation data (Krasnopolsky, V. A., B. R. Sandel, and F. Herbert 1992.J. Geophys. Res.98, 3065–3078.) and ground-based stellar occultation data (Elliot, J. L., E. W. Dunham, and C. B. Olkin 1993.Bull. Am. Astron. Soc.25, 1106.). 相似文献
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Analysis of observed spectrograms is based on comparison with synthetic spectra. The O2(b1Σ+g?X3Σ?g Atm. (1,1) band in high latitude auroras observed from the ground is found to be the strongest in the Δv = 0 sequence. It is enhanced with altitude relative to the N2 1P(2, 0)and N+2 M(2,0) bands, but the O2 Atm. (2, 2) band has an unexpected low intensity. The range of rotational temperatures of the O2 Atm. bands varies from approx. 200 to above 500 K which indicates that the altitude of the centroid of the emission region varies from about 100 km to the F-region. The highest temperature is found in the midday aurora associated with the magnetospheric cusp. Conspicuous relative variations between the intensities of N2 and O2 spectra are documented, but a satisfactory explanation of the variety is not given. Deviations of the observed O2 Atm. band intensities from the vibrational intensity distribution predicted by Franck-Condor factors indicate that the excitation of the O2 Atm. bands in aurora is not mainly due to particle impact on O2, and the contribution due to energy transfer from hot O(1D) atoms has to be found in future research. 相似文献
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This work presents model calculations of the diurnal airglow emissions from the OH Meinel bands and the O2 IR atmospheric band in the neutral atmosphere of Mars. A time-dependent photochemical model of the lower atmosphere below 80 km has been developed for this purpose. Special emphasis is placed on the nightglow emissions because of their potential to characterize the atomic oxygen profile in the 50-80 km region. Unlike on Earth, the OH Meinel emission rates are very sensitive to the details of the vibrational relaxation pathway. In the sudden death and collisional cascade limits, the maximum OH Meinel column intensities for emissions originating from a fixed upper vibrational level are calculated to be about 300 R, for transitions v′=9→v′?8, and 15,000 R, for transitions v′=1→v′=0, respectively. During the daytime the 1.27 μm emission from O2(), primarily formed from ozone photodissociation, is of the order of MegaRayleighs (MR). Due to the long radiative lifetime of O2(), a luminescent remnant of the dayglow extends to the dark side for about two hours. At night, excited molecular oxygen is expected to be produced through the three body reaction O + O + CO2. The column emission of this nighttime component of the airglow is estimated to amount to 25 kR. Both nightglow emissions, from the OH Meinel bands and the O2 IR atmospheric band, overlap in the 50-80 km region. Photodissociation of CO2 in the upper atmosphere and the subsequent transport of the atomic oxygen produced to the emitting layer are revealed as key factors in the nightglow emissions from these systems. The Mars 5 upper constraint for the product [H][O3] is revised on the basis of more recent values for the emission probabilities and collisional deactivation coefficients. 相似文献
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《Planetary and Space Science》1986,34(9):789-800
Volume emission profiles of the O2(b1Σg+−X3Σgt-)(O-O) Atmospheric Band and the O(1S-1D) green line are used together with coordinated measurements of the atomic oxygen concentrations to test the hypothesis that both emissions are excited by Barth type mechanisms. By considering O2(b1Σg+) to be produced from an excited O2 precursor, with O2 as transfer agent, and O(1S) to be formed from a similar precursor with atomic oxygen as the transfer agent, precursor quenching rates are obtained as a function of altitude. These quenching profiles can be well resolved into components corresponding to collisional deactivation by O(3P) and O2 (or N2), and support the suggestion that Barth type mechanisms are involved. Minimum efficiencies for the production of the two precursors in oxygen atom recombination and ratios for the quenching of each by O(3P) and O2 (or N2) are deduced. Differences in the quenching coefficients for the two precursors are discussed. 相似文献
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The calculation of number densities of CO2, H2O and N2 photolysis products was carried out for the Martian atmosphere at heights up to 60 km. The ozone distributed in the atmosphere as a layer of 10 km width with [O3] max = 2.5 × 109 cm3 at height of 35 km which agree well with the results of u.v. observations on the evening terminator from the Mars-5 satellite. The calculated densities of O2, CO and H2O are also in good agreement with the measured data. The eddy diffusion coefficient is equal to 3 × 106 in the troposphere (h ? 30 km) and 108 cm2 s?1 above 40 km. The dependence of the total ozone content on water vapour amount in the atmosphere is considered; the hypothesis about the influence of water ice aerosol on the ozone formation is proposed to explain the high concentrations of ozone in the morning. 相似文献
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M.H. Rees 《Planetary and Space Science》1984,32(3):373-378
The results of recent laboratory experiments suggest that the reaction N+ + O2 → NO+ + O(1S) is the principal source of O(1S) in aurora. A negligible time delay between auroral ionization and O(1S) production is associated with this indirect process, which is a necessary condition for a viable mechanism. The volume emission rate ratio associated with this production source remains constant with altitude. The problems encountered by the currently accepted source of O(1S), the reaction of N2(A3Σ) molecules with atomic oxygen are explored, and the contributions of this and other reactions to the auroral green line emission are reevaluated. 相似文献
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The Fabry-Perot interferometer on Dynamics Explorer 2 was used as a low sensitivity photometer to study the O2 Atmospheric A band during the daytime. A study of the brightness of the emission showed that the assumed source of O2(b1Σg+) in the thermosphere, O(1D), can account for the observed intensity up to about 250 km but with a significantly different scale height. This combined with an enhanced brightness above this altitude suggests an additional source for this emission. 相似文献