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In a recent paper, Meinel1 suggested that the radiations at 8628 A. and 8659 A. in the night sky luminescence might be identified as the R and P branches of the (0,1) band of the atmospheric oxygen system, b1σ+g– X3σ−g. Other bands of this system might also be present, and the absence of the most intense band, the (0,0) band, was accounted for by the reabsorption in the lower atmosphere.
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KVIFTE, G. Atmospheric Oxygen Bands in Emission from Neon–Oxygen Mixtures, and in Night Sky and Auroral Luminescences. Nature 168, 741–742 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168741a0
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