Is there an influence of short-term solar activity variations on mesopause region airglow?

Autores
Scheer, Jurgen; Reisin, Esteban Rodolfo
Año de publicación
2007
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A-priori, rapid variations of solar activity that directly impact on the terrestrial environment should be expected to influence airglow brightness in the mesopause region via the photodissociative production of atomic oxygen, as it does on the time scale of the solar cycle. To find out whether this is supported by our midlatitude data, we analyze the strongest geoeffective solar activity events, in times when data from the Argentine airglow spectrometer were obtained. An alternative interaction path involving geomagnetic perturbations mediated by the solar wind can also be expected to affect the mesopause region. Daily mean values of different solar and geomagnetic activity indices, and more than 1400 nights of airglow brightness and rotational temperature measurements (mostly from El Leoncito, 31.8S) are available for this study. The diagnostic value of this investigation is augmented by using information corresponding to two different nominal altitudes (87 km for the OH(6–2) band, and 95 km for the O2b(0–1) band). Our approach ranks the (solar and airglow) events by their respective strength, which automatically provides emphasis on the more important cases. We conclude that if an airglow response to strong solar events exists, it is only short-lived and should therefore most easily be detectable by daytime observations. On the other hand, we did not find signatures in our airglow data that could convincingly be related to geomagnetic storms.
Fil: Scheer, Jurgen. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciónes Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio. - Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio; Argentina
Fil: Reisin, Esteban Rodolfo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciónes Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio. - Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio; Argentina
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Airglow
Mesopause Region
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spelling Is there an influence of short-term solar activity variations on mesopause region airglow?Scheer, JurgenReisin, Esteban RodolfoAirglowMesopause Regionhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1A-priori, rapid variations of solar activity that directly impact on the terrestrial environment should be expected to influence airglow brightness in the mesopause region via the photodissociative production of atomic oxygen, as it does on the time scale of the solar cycle. To find out whether this is supported by our midlatitude data, we analyze the strongest geoeffective solar activity events, in times when data from the Argentine airglow spectrometer were obtained. An alternative interaction path involving geomagnetic perturbations mediated by the solar wind can also be expected to affect the mesopause region. Daily mean values of different solar and geomagnetic activity indices, and more than 1400 nights of airglow brightness and rotational temperature measurements (mostly from El Leoncito, 31.8S) are available for this study. The diagnostic value of this investigation is augmented by using information corresponding to two different nominal altitudes (87 km for the OH(6–2) band, and 95 km for the O2b(0–1) band). Our approach ranks the (solar and airglow) events by their respective strength, which automatically provides emphasis on the more important cases. We conclude that if an airglow response to strong solar events exists, it is only short-lived and should therefore most easily be detectable by daytime observations. On the other hand, we did not find signatures in our airglow data that could convincingly be related to geomagnetic storms.Fil: Scheer, Jurgen. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciónes Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio. - Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio; ArgentinaFil: Reisin, Esteban Rodolfo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciónes Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio. - Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio; ArgentinaElsevier2007-12info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/21913Scheer, Jurgen; Reisin, Esteban Rodolfo; Is there an influence of short-term solar activity variations on mesopause region airglow?; Elsevier; Advances in Space Research; 39; 8; 12-2007; 1248-12550273-1177CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.asr.2007.01.002info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117707000142info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-29T10:00:02Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/21913instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-29 10:00:02.494CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Is there an influence of short-term solar activity variations on mesopause region airglow?
title Is there an influence of short-term solar activity variations on mesopause region airglow?
spellingShingle Is there an influence of short-term solar activity variations on mesopause region airglow?
Scheer, Jurgen
Airglow
Mesopause Region
title_short Is there an influence of short-term solar activity variations on mesopause region airglow?
title_full Is there an influence of short-term solar activity variations on mesopause region airglow?
title_fullStr Is there an influence of short-term solar activity variations on mesopause region airglow?
title_full_unstemmed Is there an influence of short-term solar activity variations on mesopause region airglow?
title_sort Is there an influence of short-term solar activity variations on mesopause region airglow?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Scheer, Jurgen
Reisin, Esteban Rodolfo
author Scheer, Jurgen
author_facet Scheer, Jurgen
Reisin, Esteban Rodolfo
author_role author
author2 Reisin, Esteban Rodolfo
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Airglow
Mesopause Region
topic Airglow
Mesopause Region
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv A-priori, rapid variations of solar activity that directly impact on the terrestrial environment should be expected to influence airglow brightness in the mesopause region via the photodissociative production of atomic oxygen, as it does on the time scale of the solar cycle. To find out whether this is supported by our midlatitude data, we analyze the strongest geoeffective solar activity events, in times when data from the Argentine airglow spectrometer were obtained. An alternative interaction path involving geomagnetic perturbations mediated by the solar wind can also be expected to affect the mesopause region. Daily mean values of different solar and geomagnetic activity indices, and more than 1400 nights of airglow brightness and rotational temperature measurements (mostly from El Leoncito, 31.8S) are available for this study. The diagnostic value of this investigation is augmented by using information corresponding to two different nominal altitudes (87 km for the OH(6–2) band, and 95 km for the O2b(0–1) band). Our approach ranks the (solar and airglow) events by their respective strength, which automatically provides emphasis on the more important cases. We conclude that if an airglow response to strong solar events exists, it is only short-lived and should therefore most easily be detectable by daytime observations. On the other hand, we did not find signatures in our airglow data that could convincingly be related to geomagnetic storms.
Fil: Scheer, Jurgen. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciónes Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio. - Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio; Argentina
Fil: Reisin, Esteban Rodolfo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciónes Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio. - Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio; Argentina
description A-priori, rapid variations of solar activity that directly impact on the terrestrial environment should be expected to influence airglow brightness in the mesopause region via the photodissociative production of atomic oxygen, as it does on the time scale of the solar cycle. To find out whether this is supported by our midlatitude data, we analyze the strongest geoeffective solar activity events, in times when data from the Argentine airglow spectrometer were obtained. An alternative interaction path involving geomagnetic perturbations mediated by the solar wind can also be expected to affect the mesopause region. Daily mean values of different solar and geomagnetic activity indices, and more than 1400 nights of airglow brightness and rotational temperature measurements (mostly from El Leoncito, 31.8S) are available for this study. The diagnostic value of this investigation is augmented by using information corresponding to two different nominal altitudes (87 km for the OH(6–2) band, and 95 km for the O2b(0–1) band). Our approach ranks the (solar and airglow) events by their respective strength, which automatically provides emphasis on the more important cases. We conclude that if an airglow response to strong solar events exists, it is only short-lived and should therefore most easily be detectable by daytime observations. On the other hand, we did not find signatures in our airglow data that could convincingly be related to geomagnetic storms.
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