Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1982
Abstract
The densities of atomic carbon in the Venusian thermosphere are computed for a model which includes both chemistry and transport. The maximum density of C is 2.8×107 cm−3 near 150 km for an assumed O2 mixing ratio of 1×10−4. Photoionization of atomic carbon is found to be the major source of C+ above 200 km, and resonance scattering of sunlight by atomic carbon may be the major source of the C I emissions at 1561 Å, 1657 Å, and 1931 Å. The computed C+ densities are found to be in substantial agreement with those measured by Pioneer Venus.
Repository Citation
Fox, J. L.
(1982). Atomic Carbon in the Atmosphere of Venus. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 87 (A11), 9211-9216.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/physics/292
DOI
10.1029/JA087iA11p09211
Comments
Copyright © 1982 by the American Geophysical Union.
The following article appeared in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics 87(A11), and may be found at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/JA087iA11p09211/full
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