The Lyman‐α Sky Background as Observed by New Horizons

The Lyman‐α Sky Background as Observed by New Horizons

Abstract Recent observations of interplanetary medium atomic hydrogen Lyman‐α emission in the outer solar system, made with the Alice ultraviolet spectrograph on New Horizons, are presented. The observations include regularly spaced great circle scans of the sky and pointed observations near the dow...

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Main Authors: G. Randall Gladstone, W. R. Pryor, S. Alan Stern, Kimberly Ennico, Catherine B. Olkin, John R. Spencer, Harold A. Weaver, Leslie A. Young, Fran Bagenal, Andrew F. Cheng, Nathaniel J. Cunningham, Heather A. Elliott, Thomas K. Greathouse, David P. Hinson, Joshua A. Kammer, Ivan R. Linscott, Joel Wm. Parker, Kurt D. Retherford, Andrew J. Steffl, Darrell F. Strobel, Michael E. Summers, Henry Throop, Maarten H. Versteeg, Michael W. Davis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-08-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
Subjects:
ultraviolet
Lyman alpha
interplanetary medium
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078808

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https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078808

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