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It is shown that Titan's surface and plausible atmospheric thermal opacity sources—gaseous N2, CH4, and H2, CH4 cloud, and organic haze—are sufficient to match available Earth-based and Voyager observations of Titan's thermal emission spectrum. Dominant sources of thermal emission are the surface for wavelenghts λ ? 1 cm, atmospheric N2 for 1 cm ? λ ? 200 μm,, condensed and gaseous CH4 for 200 μm ? λ ? 20 μm, and molecular bands and organic haze for λ ? 20 μm. Matching computed spectra to the observed Voyager IRIS spectra at 7.3 and 52.7° emission angles yields the following abundances and locations of opacity sources: CH4 clouds: 0.1 g cm? at a planetocentric radius of 2610–2625 km, 0.3 g cm?2 at 2590–2610 km, total 0.4 ± 0.1 g cm–2 above 2590 km; organic haze: above 2750 km; tropospheric H2: 0.3 ± 0.1 mol%. This is the first quantitative estimate of the column density of condensed methane (or CH4/C2H6) on Titan. Maximum transparency in the middle to far IR occurs at 19 μm where the atmospheric vertical absorption optical depth is A particle radius in the upper portion of the CH4 cloud is indicated by the apparent absence of scattering effects. 相似文献
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Kenneth Fox 《Icarus》1975,24(4):454-459
The basis for “quasipolar” absorption (QPA) by CH4 is the existence of a small electric dipole moment in its ground state. The integrated intensity αQPA at a temperature of 90K is calculated to be between 4.8 × 10?5 and 1.9 × 10?2 cm?2 atm?1. With an assumed mean pressure of 0.1 atm and a relative abundance of , it is estimated that the ratio of quasipolar to pressure-induced absorption (PIA) is 0.05 ? αQPA/αPIA ? 18 for the spectral range from 0 to 300 cm?1. This result suggests that quasipolar absorption may contribute to a weak, CH4-induced greenhouse in the atmosphere of Titan. 相似文献
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Uwe Fink Bradford A. Smith D. Chris Benner James R. Johnson H.J. Reitsema James A. Westphal 《Icarus》1980,44(1):62-71
Using a low-resolution spectrograph and a CCD array, a spectrum of Pluto from 0.58 to 1.06 μm was obtained. The spectrum had a resolution of and a signal-to-noise ratio of ～300. It showed CH4 absorption bands at 6200, 7200, 7900, 8400, 8600, 8900 and 10,000 Å. The strongest of these bands was at 8900 Å with an absorption depth of 0.23. This band was heavily saturated, compared to the weaker bands, providing proof for the gaseous origin of the observed absorptions. By applying CH4 band model parameters to our data, a total CH4 abundance of 80 ± 20 m-am was derived. This translates into a one-way abundance of 27 ± 7 m-am and a CH4 surface pressure of 1.5 × 10?4 atm. An upper limit to the total pressure of ～0.05 atm could be set. First-order calculations on atmospheric escape showed that this methane atmosphere would be stable if the mass of Pluto is increased 50% over its current value and its radius is 1400 km. Alternatively a heavier gas mixed with the CH4 atmosphere would aid its stability. The relatively large amount of gaseous CH4 observed implies that the absorption bands recently reported at 1.7 and 2.3 μm are likely due to atmospheric CH4 absorptions rather than surface frost as interpreted earlier. 相似文献
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A spectrum of Jupiter between 6000 and 12 000 cm? at high resolution (0.05 cm?) was recorded with a Michelson interferometer at Palomar Mountain in October 1974. An analysis of the R branch of the 3ν3CH4 band with the reflecting-layer model, taking into account the H2 absorption which occurs in the same spectral range, leads to a Lorentzian half-width of 0.09 ± 0.02 cm?1, a rotational temperature of 175 ± 10° K, and a CH4 abundance of order 52m atm. Five lines of the 13CH43ν3 band have been identified; a comparison with new laboratory spectra indicates that the 13CH4/12CH4 ratio in the Jupiter atmosphere is close to the terrestrial ratio. 相似文献
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We have obtained spectra of Pluto on six nights during February 1979 using the Cassegrain Digicon spectrograph on the 2.1-m Struve reflector and the IDS spectrograph on the 2.7-m reflector of McDonald Observatory. These spectra, with nominal resolution of 6–7 Å, have been reduced to relative fluxes. Relative albedos were then calculated using the solar irradiances of Arvesen et al. (1969). The spectra taken in the blue show no indication of the upturn in albedo at previously reported by Fix et al. (1970). The lack of a uv upturn cannot be interpreted in terms of a Rayleigh scattering atmosphere unless the albedo of the underlying surface is known. From the lack of methane absorption at the wavelength of the 6190- or 7270-Å methane bands we derive an upper limit of 1–3 m-am of gaseous CH4. The albedo curve has a constant slope between 3500 and 7300 Å. The only other solar system body which has this feature is an S-type asteroid. 相似文献
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Laboratory band-model absorption coefficients of CH4 are used to calculate the Uranus spectrum from 5400 to 10,400 Å. A good fit of both strong and weak bands for the Uranus spectrum over the entire wavelength interval is achieved for the first time. Three different atmospheric models are employed: a reflecting layer model, a homogeneous scattering layer model, and a clear atmosphere sandwiched between two scattering layers. The spectrum for the reflecting layer model exhibits serious discrepancies but shows that large amounts of CH4 (5–10 km-am) are necessary to reproduce the Uranus spectrum. Both scattering models give reasonably good fits. The homogeneous model requires a particle scattering albedo and an abundance per scattering mean free path . The parameters derived from the sandwich layer model are: forsb the upper scattering layer a continuum single scattering albedo () of 0.995 and a scattering optical depth variable with wavelength consistent with Rayleigh scattering; for the clear layer they are a CH4 abundance (a) of 2.2 km-am and an effective pressure (p) ? 0.1 atm; for the lower cloud deck a Lambert reflectivity (L) of 0.9 resulted. A severe depletion of CH4 in the upper scattering layer is required. An enrichment of CH4/H2 over the solar ratio by a factor of 4–14 in the lower atmosphere is, however, indicated. 相似文献
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Spectropolarimetry of Jupiter at resolutions between 22 and 35 Å reveals a strong increase of linear polarization in the 7250- CH4 band. This is very probably due to the decreasing contribution toward the band center of the higher orders of scattering, which have a smaller net polarization than the first few orders. The linear polarization is also enhanced in the band at 7900 comprising the 7920- NH3 and 7600- to 8200- CH4 bands. The normalized circular polarization shows a feature at 7250 with a dispersion shape. This is most probably produced in a double-scattering process involving either a solid or liquid aerosol with an absorption at 7250 . Methane aerosols, the obvious candidates from a spectroscopic point of view, are, however, forbidden if current estimates of the Jovian atmospheric temperature are correct. 相似文献
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Michael J. Price 《Icarus》1973,20(4):455-464
New measurements of the equivalent widths of the 4-0 S(0) and S(1) H2 quadrupole lines in the Uranian spectrum have been obtained using high dispersion (4.12 Å/mm) image-tube spectrography. The measured equivalent widths are for the S(0) and S(1) lines, respectively. Curve-of-growth analysis in terms of a reflecting layer model yields an H2 column-density of 780?330+940km amagat and a temperature of 78?24+80°K. Interpretation using a semi-infinite, homogeneous, isotropically scattering model for line formation yields a scattering mean free path at λ6400 Å of 550 ± 250 km amagat. Quoted errors for both the H2 column-density and the scattering mean free path include the effect of uncertainty in the choice of atmospheric temperature. The results are discussed in terms of current models for the Uranian atmosphere. 相似文献
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V.G. Teifel 《Icarus》1977,30(1):138-154
Results of photoelectric measurements of the intensity in CH4 5430, 6190, and 7250 Å absorption bands, CH4 absorption lines in the 3ν3 band, and the NH3 6457.1 Å line are examined from the point of view of a model which takes into account the role of multiple scattering inside a homogeneous semi-infinite cloud layer in the formation of absorption components in the Jovian spectrum. Introduced are a number of simple ratios between depths of lines and bands and the parameters which characterize the properties of the cloud layer and the atmosphere above the clouds for occurrence of the Henyey-Greenstein scattering phase function at various degrees of asymmetry in g. The CH4 content inside the cloud layer is determined as an equivalent thickness on the mean free path between scattering events. The latter was found to be equal to AL ? 10 ± 2 m-amagat at g = 0.75 or AL ? 20 ± 3 m-amagat at g = 0.5 along all the above-mentioned CH4 absorption bands. For NH3 it is AL ? 31 ± 4 cm-amagat at g = 0.75 and AL ? 62 ± 8 cm-amagat at g = 0.5.The weakening of the CH4 absorption bands toward the edges of the Jovian disc requires a volume scattering coefficient in the cloud layer of σa ～ 10?6 cm?1. The mean specific abundance of NH3 obtained within the cloud layer does not contradict the calculated abundance of saturated gaseous ammonia. 相似文献
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William D. Smythe 《Icarus》1975,24(4):421-427
Reflectance spectra from 1 to 6 microns were taken of CH4 and CO2 gas hydrates and were found to be very similar to H2O frost spectra over the entire wavelength region. H2O clathrates have a gas to H2O ratio of about , hence a surface may contain 17% (by number) gas and appear spectroscopically similar to an H2O frost covered surface. This is important in the pressure-temperature regime of the outer solar system where hydrates, which often have vapor pressures 10?5 (or less) that of the pure gas component, are marginally stable as solids (e.g., the vapor pressure in Torr at 60 K for CH4·6H2O = 10?8 while for CH4 = 10?1). We may conclude that reflectance spectroscopy (especially Earth-based) is useful for positive identification of some components of the surface, but does not set stringent limits for spectroscopically active hydrate forming substances in the presence of water frost. 相似文献
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As part of a continuing series of experiments on the production of dark reddish organic solids, called tholins, by irradiation of cosmically abundant reducing gases, the synthesis from a simulated Titanian atmosphere of a tholin with a visible reflection spectrum similar to that of the high altitude aerosols responsible for the albedo and reddish color of Titan has been reported Sagan and Khare, 1981, Sagan and Khare, 1982, Orig. Life. 12, 280) and [C. Sagan, B. N. Khare, and J. Lewis, in press. In Saturn (M. S. Matthews and T. Gehrels, Eds.), Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson]. The determination of the real (n) and imaginary (k) parts of the complex refractive index of thin films of such tholin prepared by continuous D.C. discharge through a 0.9 N2/0.1 CH4 gas mixture at 0.2 mb are reported. For have been determined from a combination of transmittance, specular reflectance, interferometric, Brewster angle, and ellipsometric polarization measurements; experimental uncertainties in n are estimated to be ±0.5, and in k ± 30%. Values of n(?1.65) and k (?0.004 to 0.08) in the visible range are consistent with deductions made by ground-based and spacecraft observations of Titan. Maximum values of k (?0.8) are near 1000 Å, and minimum values (?4 × 10?4) are near 1.5 μm. Many infrared absorption features are present in k(γ), including the 4.6-μm nitrile band. 相似文献
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The paper gives the results of detailed studies of the frequency spectra of the chain of the wave packets Fs(t) of geomagnetic pulsations PC-1 recorded at the Novolazarevskaya station. The bulk of the energy of Fs(t) is concentrated in the vicinity of the central frequencies of spectra—the carrier frequencies of the signals. The velocity of the flux of protons generating these signals correspond to them. The spectra of the signals have oscillations—“satellites” irregularly distributed in frequency. These satellites, as the authors believe, testify to the presence of the individual groups of protons of low concentration whose velocities vary within 103–104 km s?1.Their energy is only of the order of 10?2–10?3 of the energy of the main proton flux. Clearly pronounced maxima on double and triple frequencies are detected. They show that the generation of pulsations PC-1 is accompanied by the generation on the overtones of wave packets called in this paper “two-fold” and “three-fold” pulsations PC-1. Intensive symmetrical satellites of a modulation character have been discovered on frequencies . Frequency differences correspond to them. The authors believe that the values of Δ?±sK are resonance frequencies of the magnetospheric cavity in which geomagnetic pulsations PC-1 are generated. It is established that the values of Δ?±sK coincide closely with the carrier frequencies of geomagnetic pulsations PC-3 and PC-4 generated in the magnetosphere. This leads to the conclusion that the resonance oscillations of the magnetospheric cavity are their source. Thus, the generation of geomagnetic pulsations of different types and resonance oscillations in the magnetosphere are integrated into a unified process. The importance of the results obtained and the necessity to check further their trustworthiness and universality, using experimental data gathered in different conditions, is stressed. 相似文献
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L. Trafton 《Icarus》1985,63(3):374-405
We report the results of monitoring Saturn's H2 quadrupole and CH4 band absorptions outside of the equatorial zone over one-half of Saturn's year. This interval covers most of the perihelion half of Saturn's elliptical orbit, which happens to be approximately bounded by the equinoxes. Marked long-term changes occur in the CH4 absorption accompanied by weakly opposite changes in the H2 absorption. Around the 1980 equinox, the H2 and CH4 absorptions in the northern hemisphere appear to be discontinuous with those in the southern hemisphere. This discontinuity and the temporal variation of the absorptions are evidence for seasonal changes. The absorption variations can be attributed to a variable haze in Saturn's troposphere, responding to changes in temperature and insolation through the processes of sublimation and freezing. Condensed or frozen CH4 is very unlikely to contribute any haze. The temporal variation of the absorption in the strong CH4 bands at south temperate latitudes is consistent with a theoretically expected phase lag of 60° between the tropopause temperature and the seasonally variable insolation. We model the vertical haze distribution of Saturn's south temperature latitudes during 1971–1977 in terms of a distribution having a particle scale height equal to a fraction of the atmospheric scale height. The results are a CH4/H2 mixing ratio of (4.2 ± 0.4) × 10?3, a haze particle albedo of , and a range of variation in the particle to gas scale-height ratio of 0.6 ± 0.2. The haze was lowest near the time of maximum temperature. We also report spatial measurements of the absorption in the 6450 Å NH3 band made annually since the 1980 equinox. A 20 ± 4% increase in the NH3 absorption at south temperate latitudes has occurred since 1973–1976 and the NH3 absorption at high northern latitudes has increased during spring. Increasing insolation, and the resulting net sublimation of NH3 crystals, is probably the cause. Significant long-term changes apparently extend to the deepest visible parts of Saturn's atmosphere. An apparently anomalous ortho-para H2 ratio in 1978 suggests that the southern temperate latitudes experienced an unusual upwelling during that time. This may have signaled a rise in the radiative-convective boundary from deep levels following maximum tropospheric temperature and the associated maximum radiative stability. This would be further evidence that the deep, visible atmosphere is governed by processes such as dynamics and the thermodynamics of phase changes, which have response times much shorter than the radiative time constant. 相似文献
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W.T. Huntress 《Planetary and Space Science》1975,23(2):377-378
Laboratory data shows that the reaction of protons with methane proceeds at thermal ion energies to give both CH3+ and CH4+ ions in the ratio . The overall rate constant for the reaction is 3.8 ± 0.3 × 10?9 cm3/sec. This reaction may lead to the formation of hydrocarbon ions in the lower ionosphere of Jupiter, and the significance of this process for formation of hydrocarbons and HCN in the atmosphere of Jupiter is discussed. 相似文献
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The rates and altitudes for the dissociation of atmospheric constituents of Titan are calculated for solar UV, solar wind protons, interplanetary electrons, Saturn magnetospheric particles, and cosmic rays. The resulting integrated synthesis rates of organic products range from 102–103 g cm?2 over 4.5 × 109 years for high-energy particle sources to 1.3 × 104 g cm?2 for UV at , and to 5.0 × 105 g cm?2 if (acting primarily on C2H2, C2H4, and C4H2) is included. The production rate curves show no localized maxima corresponding to observed altitudes of Titan's hazes and clouds. For simple to moderately complex organic gases in the Titanian atmosphere, condensation occurs below the top of the main cloud deck at 2825 km. Such condensates comprise the principal cloud mass, with molecules of greater complexity condensing at higher altitudes. The scattering optical depths of the condensates of molecules produced in the Titanian mesosphere are as great as ～ 102/(particulate radius, μm) if column densities of condensed and gas phases are comparable. Visible condensation hazes of more complex organic compounds may occur at altitudes up to ～ 3060 km provided only that the abundance of organic products declines with molecular mass no faster than laboratory experiments indicate. Typical organics condensing at 2900 km have molecular masses = 100–150 Da. At current rates of production the integrated depth of precipitated organic liquids, ices, and tholins produced over 4.5 × 109 years ranges from a minimum ～ 100 m to kilometers if UV at is important. The organic nitrogen content of this layer is expected to be ～ 10?1?10?3 by mass. 相似文献
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Previous studies based on radio scintillation measurements of the atmosphere of Venus have identified two regions of small-scale temperature fluctuations located in the vicinity of 45 and 60 km. A global study of the fluctuations near 60 km, which are consistent with wind-shear-generated turbulence, was conducted using the Pioneer Venus measurements. The structure constants of refractive index fluctuations cn2 and temperature fluctuations cT2 increase poleward, peak near 70° latitude, and decrease over the pole; cn2 varies from 2 × 10?15 to 1.5 × 10?14m and cT2 from 4 × 10?3 to 7 × 10?2°K2m. These results indicate greater turbulent activity at the higher latitudes. In the region near 45 km the refractive index fluctuations and the corresponding temperature fluctuations are substantially lower. Based on the analysis of one representative occultation measurement, in the 45-km region. The fluctuations in this region also appear to be consistent with wind-shear-generated turbulence. The turbulence level is considerably weaker than that at 60 km; the energy dissipation rate ε is 4.9 × 10?5m2sec?3 and the small-scale eddy diffusion coefficient K is 2 × 103 cm2 sec?1. 相似文献
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In March 1979, the spectrum of Venus was recorded in the far infrared from the G.P. Kuiper Airborne Observatory when the planet subtended a phase angle of 62°. The brightness temperature was observed to be 275°K near 110 cm?1, dropping to 230°K near 270 cm?1. Radiance calculations, using temperature and cloud structure formation from the Pioneer Venus mission and including gaseous absorption by the collision-induced dipole of CO2, yield results consistently brighter than the observations. Supplementing the spectral data, Pioneer Venus OIR data at similar phase angles provide the constraint that any additional infrared opacity must be contained in the upper cloud, H2SO4 to the Pioneer-measured upper cloud structure serves to reconcile the model spectrum and the observations, but cloud microphysics strongly indicates that such a high particle density haze is implausible. The atmospheric environment is reviewed with regard to the far infrared opacity and possible particle distribution modifications are discussed. We conclude that the most likely possibility for supplementing the far-infrared opacity is a population of large particles in the upper cloud with number densities less than 1 particle cm?3 which has remained undetected by in situ measurements. 相似文献
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Paul G. Steffes 《Icarus》1985,64(3):576-585
Microwave absorption observed in the 35- to 48-km-altitude region of the Venus atmosphere has been attributed to the presence of gaseous sulfuric acid (H2SO4) in that region. This has motivated the laboratory measurement of the microwave absorption at 13.4- and 3.6-cm wavelengths from gaseous H2SO4 in a CO2 atmosphere under simulated conditions for that region. As part of the same experiments, upper limits on the saturation vapor pressure of gaseous H2SO4 have also been determined. The measurements for microwave absorption have been made in the 1- to 6-atm pressure range, with temperatures in the 500 to 575°K range. Using a theoretically derived temperature dependence, the best-fit expression for absorption from gaseous H2SO4 in a CO2 atmosphere at the 13.4-cm wavelength is is the H2SO4 number mixing ratio, P is the pressure in atmospheres, and T is the temperature in degrees Kelvins. The best-fit expression for absorption at the 3.6-cm wavelength is 4.52 × 1010q(P)0.85T?3 (dB km?1). The inferred H2SO4 vapor pressure above liquid H2SO4 corresponds to ln p = 8.84 ? 7220/t where p is the H2SO4 vapor pressure (in atm) and T is the temperature in degrees Kelvins. These results suggest that abundances of gaseous H2SO4 on the order of 15 to 30 ppm could account for the microwave absorption observed by radio occultation experiments at 13.3- and 3.6-cm wavelengths. They also suggest that such abundances would correspond to saturation vapor pressure existing at or above the 46- to 48-km range, which correlates with the observed cloud base. It is suggested that future measurements of absorption in the 1- to 3-cm wavelength range will provide additional tools for monitoring variations in H2SO4 abundance via radio occultation and radio astronomical observations. 相似文献
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A. E. Tarasov 《Astronomy Letters》2016,42(9):598-605
Based on high-resolution spectra taken near the He I 6678 Å line for the massive binary system 103 Tau, we have detected a weak absorption component belonging to the binary’s secondary component. We have measured the radial velocities of both components, improved the previously known orbital parameters, and determined the new ones. The binary has an orbital period P orb = 58.305d, an orbital eccentricity e = 0.277, a radial velocity semi-amplitude of the bright component K A = 44.8 km s?1, and a component mass ratio M A /M B = 1.77. The absence of photometric variability and the estimates of physical parameters for the primary component suggest that the binary most likely has a considerable inclination of the orbital plane to the observer, i ≈ 50°?60°. In this case, the secondary component is probably a normal dwarf of spectral type B5–B8. Based on the spectra taken near the H α line, we have studied the variability of the emission profile. It is shown to be formed in the Roche lobe of the secondary component, but no traces of active mass exchange in the binary have been detected. 相似文献