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IN the theory of emission of the night-sky spectrum recently proposed by me, the Region F of the ionosphere is identified as the luminescent layer1. The characteristic night-sky spectrum in the visible region consisting of the first-positive and the Vegard-Kaplan bands of N2 and the auroral green and red lines of O are supposed to be emitted by the following reaction: .
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MITRA, S. Night-Sky Emission and Region F Ionization. Nature 155, 786 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155786a0
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