The isotopic oxygen nightglow as viewed from Mauna Kea

Science

Volumn 277, Issue 5331, 1997, Pages 1485-1487

  Slanger, T G ^a   Huestis, D L ^a   Osterbrock, D E ^b   Fulbright, J P ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; OXYGEN 18;

ATMOSPHERIC EMISSION; NIGHTGLOW; OXYGEN ISOTOPE;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; MEASUREMENT; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VIBRATION;

USA, HAWAII, HAWAII, MAUNA KEA;

EID: 0030770838     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5331.1485     Document Type: Article

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20. We thank the Keck observers listed in (1), whose spectral data provided the basis for this paper, P. C. Cosby for carrying out spectroscopic calculations on the oxygen transitions, and R. A. Copeland for his contributions. The W. M. Keck Observatory is operated by the California Institute of Technology and the University of California. D.E.O. and J.P.F. acknowledge NSF for partial support of this research under grant AST 91-23547. T.G.S. and D.L.H. acknowledge support by NASA Space Physics Division under grant NAGW-3669.