Ultraviolet Radiation in the Solar System
UV radiation is an important part in the electromagnetic spectrum since the energy of the photons is great enough to produce important chemical reactions in the atmospheres of planets and satellites of our Solar System, thereby affecting the transmission
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ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY VOLUME 331
EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman W.B. BURTON, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. ([email protected]); University of Leiden, The Netherlands ([email protected]) Executive Committee J. M. E. KUIJPERS, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands E. P. J. VAN DEN HEUVEL, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands H. VAN DER LAAN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands MEMBERS J. N. BAHCALL, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A. F. BERTOLA, University of Padua, Italy J. P. CASSINELLI, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. C. J. CESARSKY, European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany O. ENGVOLD, University of Oslo, Norway A. HECK, Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, France R. McCRAY, University of Colorado, Boulder, U.S.A. P. G. MURDIN, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, U.K. F. PACINI, Istituto Astronomia Arcetri, Firenze, Italy V. RADHAKRISHNAN, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India K. SATO, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan F. H. SHU, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. B. V. SOMOV, Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia R. A. SUNYAEV, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia Y. TANAKA, Institute of Space & Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan S. TREMAINE, Princeton University, U.S.A. N. O. WEISS, University of Cambridge, U.K.
ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM by M. VÁZQUEZ Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, La Laguna, Spain and
A. HANSLMEIER Institut für Physik, Graz, Austria
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Contents Preface
XI
1 Historical Introduction 1.1 The extension of visible spectra towards the red . . . 1.2 Photographic plates and radiation beyond the violet 1.3 The Ultraviolet Catastrophe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 Laboratory experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5 Composition of the Earth’s atmosphere . . . . . . . 1.6 Balloons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.6.1 The pioneers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.6.2 Observations of planets . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.6.3 Current projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.7 Aircrafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.7.1 The pioneers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.7.2 So
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