We present and discuss first results from the Ultraviolet Imager (UVI) experiment launched oil the Polar spacecraft. The Polar spacecraft has an apogee of 9 Re, a perigee of 1.8 Re and the orbit period is ? 18 hours. The UVI camera, mounted on a despun platform, will image the auroral Oxygen lines at 130.4 nm and 135.6 nm, and the Nitrogen Lyman-Birge-Hopfield bands, at 160.0 - 190.0 nm. The camera has an 8-degree total field of view, an angular resolution of 0.036 degrees, and auroral images will be obtained with a time resolution of 37 seconds. The discussion will include how the UVI images are used to obtain quantitative information on the characteristic and total energies of global auroral precipitation.


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    Title :

    Auroral Observations by the Polar Ultraviolet Imager UVI


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    Publication date :

    1998-01-01


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    Miscellaneous


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    No indication


    Language :

    English


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