1205.5167 (Oleg S. Ugolnikov et al.)

Trajectory Retrieval and Component Investigations of Southern Polar Stratosphere Based on High Resolution Spectroscopy of Totally Eclipsed Moon Surface    [PDF]

Oleg S. Ugolnikov, Anna F. Punanova, Vadim V. Krushinsky

The paper contains the review of the first high resolution spectral observations of Moon surface fragment during the total lunar eclipse of December, 10, 2011, conducted with the fiber-fed echelle spectrograph at 1.2-m telescope at Kourovka Astronomical observatory (Ural mountains, central Russia). The observed radiation is transferred by tangent trajectory through the southern polar stratosphere before the reflection from the Moon, and spectra contain a number of atmospheric gases absorption bands (O2, O3, O4, NO2, H2O). High resolution analysis of three O2 bands and O4 absorption effects are used to retrieve the effective trajectory of solar emission through the stratosphere and to detect the contribution of scattered light. Other gases bands allow to measure their abundances along this trajectory.

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