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Indirect excitation processes for auroral emissions are briefly reviewed. New ground based measurements of height effects for the 1, 1 O2 Atmospheric band in auroral arcs are presented. These measurements are shown to be in quantitative agreement with the hypothesis of Wallace and Chamberlain (1959) that the v′ = 1 level of O2 (b1Σ) is excited primarily by energy transfer from O(1D) and deactivated vibrationally in collisions with O2.
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Vallance Jones, A., Gattinger, R.L. (1973). Indirect Excitation Processes in Aurora. In: McCormac, B.M. (eds) Physics and Chemistry of Upper Atmosphere. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2542-3_23
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