Operation CASTLE. Project 18.3. High-Resolution Spectroscopy

Abstract

The high resolution work undertaken at Castle with three spectrographs of relatively high dispersion is described and analyzed. Profitable results were obtained from the spectra taken with the JACO 21-foot Wadsworth-mount spectrograph, mainly the highest violet cutoff to date and a very predominant NO2 spectrum in absorption. There is a definite indication that the NO2 exists in a state of excitation above that observed at ordinary room temperature. The observation as a function of time of the formation NO2, which conceivably can be formed in different ways during different intervals of the explosion, would be of great interest.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA995367

Entities

People

  • C. A. Beck
  • J. H. Campbell

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Counter IED
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption
  • Absorption Spectra
  • Cameras
  • Continuous Spectra
  • Dispersions
  • Excitation
  • Explosions
  • High Resolution
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Nuclear Explosions
  • Photographs
  • Photography
  • Security
  • Spectra
  • Spectroscopy

Readers

  • Economics
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Molecular Photonics/Laser Physics