Abstract
We have calculated the net emission coefficient of air plasmas at atmospheric pressure in the temperature range between 300 and 40 000 K, in the assumption of local thermodynamic equilibrium and isothermal plasmas. This calculation takes into account the radiation due to the atomic continuum, the molecular continuum, the molecular bands (several systems for O2, N2, NO and N2+) and the atomic lines. Special attention has been devoted in this paper to the description of the molecular bands radiation. The results show that in the high temperature range where molecules are dissociated, the radiation properties of air plasmas are mainly due to those of nitrogen plasmas, the resonance atomic lines playing an important role in spite of their strong self-absorption. At low temperature (T<6000 K) the role of the molecular bands of oxygen (O2) and NO is predominant.
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