@article{4669ce543f104da999a44203c30ee878,
title = "Photoionization and optical emission effects of positive streamers in air at ground pressure",
abstract = "A positive streamer in a weak electric field in air at ground pressure is investigated by utilizing a recently developed photoionization model based on the radiative transfer theory. The modeling results on the streamer emissions demonstrate that blue emissions of the second positive band system of N2 dominate the streamer spectra, in contrast to streamers in predominately red sprite discharges observed at low air pressures at high altitudes in the Earth's atmosphere.",
author = "Ningyu Liu and S{\'e}bastien C{\'e}lestin and Anne Bourdon and Pasko, {Victor P.} and Pierre S{\'e}gur and Emmanuel Marode",
note = "Funding Information: Manuscript received November 26, 2007; revised March 17, 2008. The work of N. Y. Liu and V. P. Pasko was supported by the United States National Science Foundation under Grant NSF ATM-0725360 and Grant NSF ATM-0734083 to The Pennsylvania State University. N. Y. Liu is with the Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901 USA (e-mail: nliu@fit.edu). S. C{\'e}lestin and A. Bourdon are with the Ecole Centrale Paris, EM2C, UPR CNRS 288, 92295 Ch{\^a}tenay-Malabry, France. V. P. Pasko is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 USA. P. S{\'e}gur is with the Universit{\'e} de Toulouse, LAPLACE, CNRS, INPT, UPS, 31062 Toulouse, France. E. Marode is with the Ecole Sup{\'e}rieure d{\textquoteright}Electricit{\'e}, LPGP, UMR CNRS 8578, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TPS.2008.927088",
year = "2008",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1109/TPS.2008.927088",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "36",
pages = "942--943",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science",
issn = "0093-3813",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
number = "4 PART 1",
}