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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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Marcel Nicolet 《Planetary and Space Science》1984,32(11):1467-1468
A recent determination by D. R. Bates of the Rayleigh scattering cross section (σRS) for air from 0.2 to 1 μm leads to a simple empirical formula (λ in μm) where for the spectral region 0.2 μm < λ < 0.55 μm ; the accuracy is within ±0.5%. From the visible at 0.55 μm to the infrared (i.r.) at 1 μm, the same accuracy can be obtained using a constant value, x = 0.04. The formula accounts for the degree of depolarization which varies with the wavelength according to the latest determination by Bates. 相似文献
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A mechanism has been proposed for uv-accelerated desorption from Fe2+ sites on mineral surfaces that satisfies kinetic constraints determined in the laboratory by Huguenin. The process is an integral step of the photochemical weathering mechanism for producing dust on Mars, and it now appears that it may play primary roles in stabilizing CO2 against dissociation by sunlight and in controlling the oxidation state of the atmosphere. We propose that adsorption occurs at octahedrally coordinated Fe2+ surface sites to form seven-coordinate transition-state complexes. These complexes acquire 16–18 kcal mole?1 of ligand field stabilization energy. During illumination (λ ≤ 0.35 μm), electrons are photoemitted from the surfaced Fe2+, temporarily oxidizing them to Fe3+. Fe3+ has no ligand field stabilization energy, and the complexes lose 16–18 kcal mole?1 of stabilization energy. This is a large fraction of the 19- to 28-kcal mole?1 activation energy for dissociating the complexes, and desorption should proceed spontaneously. The gases that were observed to undergo adsorption-photodesorption include O2, CO2, CO, H2O, N2, and Ar. Photodesorption can drive several catalytic reactions, one of which is the oxidation of CO to CO2. The rate of this reaction should be limited by the supply of CO and O2 to the surface to ～2 × 1012 cm?2 sec?1 (column photodissociation rate of CO2). By including this surface reaction in models of Martian atmospheric CO2 chemistry, CO2 can be stabilized against photodissociation with eddy diffusion coefficients of only 3 × 105?1 × 107 cm2 sec?1 below 40 km, raising to ～ 109 cm2 sec?1 at 140 km. Odd hydrogen is not needed to catalyze the oxidation of CO below 40 km, and odd hydrogen mixing ratios need only to be to depress ozone concentrations below the observed upper limit in equatorial regions. Another catalytic reaction that should be driven by photodesorption on Mars is . This is an important source of atmospheric O2, amounting to 7 × 1013?2 × 1017 O2 molecules cm?2 yr?1, and it could have a significant effect on atmospheric oxidation state. 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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An attempt to observe radar echoes from the comet Kohoutek was made at a radio frequency of 7840 MHz (λ ～- 3.8 cm) on 12 January 1974 using the Haystack Observatory radar in Massachusetts. A search for an echo over a range of band-widths covering 2Hz to 66kHz yielded no positive result. The upper limit on the radar cross section is therefore approximately , where B is the (unknown) bandwidth of the echo in Hertz. For , it follows that (i) the nucleus, if a perfect spherical reflector, must be less than 250 km in diameter, and (ii) the density of any millimeter-sized particles must be less than 1m?3 for a coma of diameter 104km. 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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The calculated radiative lifetime of the metastable ion is 6.4 × 10?3s. Used in conjunction with the results of measurements by Erdman, Espy and Zipf this sets 1.3 × 10?18 cm2 as the upper limit to the cross section for the formation of in e - N2 collisions at 100eV which leaves the possibility that the process is responsible for the feature in auroras only just open. The cross section for the formation of in e — N collisions is large. However for this process to lead to the observed intensity of relative to the N:N2 abundance ratio would have to be as high as 1.6 × 10?2. 相似文献
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Results are given of the calculations of the group delay time propagating τ(ω, φ0) of hydromagnetic whistlers, using outer ionospheric models closely resembling actual conditions. The τ(ω, φ0) dependencies were compared with the experimental data of τexp(ω, φ0) obtained from sonagrams. The sonagrams were recorded in the frequency range at observation points located at geomagnetic latitudes φ0 = (53?66)° and in the vicinity of the geomagnetic poles. This investigation has led us to new and important conclusions.The wave packets (W.P.) forming hydromagnetic whistlers (H.W.) are mainly generated in the plasma regions at L = 3.5?4.0. This is not consistent with ideas already expressed in the literature that their generation region is . The overwhelming majority of the τexp values differ considerably from the times at which wave packets would, in theory, propagate along the magnetic field lines corresponding to those of the geomagnetic latitudes φ0 of the observation points. The second important fact is that the W.P. frequency ω is less than everywhere along its propagation trajectory, including the apogee of the magnetic force line ( is the proton gyrofrequency). Proton flux spectra keV, responsible for H.W. generation, were determined. Comparison of the Explorer-45 and OGO-3 measurements published in the literature, with our data, showed that the proton flux density energy responsible for the H.W. excitation where Ha is the magnetic field force in the generation region of these W.P. The electron concentration is . The values given in the literature are . The e data considered also leads to the conclusion that the generating mechanism of the W.P. studied probably always co-exists with the mechanism of their amplification. 相似文献
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V.A. Krasnopolsky 《Planetary and Space Science》1983,31(11):1363-1369
In an updating of energy characteristics of lightnings on Venus obtained from Venera-9 and -10 optical observations, the flash energy is given as 8 × 108 J and the mean energy release of lightnings is 1 erg cm?2 s which is 25 times as high as that on the Earth. Lightnings were observed in the cloud layer. The stroke rate in the near-surface atmosphere is less than 5 s?1 over the entire planet if the light energy of the stroke exceeds 4 × 105 J and less than 15 s?1 for (1–4) × 105 J.The average NO production due to lightnings equals 5 × 108 cm?2 s?1, the atomic nitrogen production is equal to 7 × 109 cm?2s?1,the N flux toward the nightside is 3.2 × 109 cm?2s?1, the number densities [N] = 3 × 107cm?3 and [NO] = 1.8 × 106cm?3 at 135 km. Almost all NO molecules in the upper atmosphere vanish interacting with N and the resulting NO flux at 90-80 km equals 5 × 105cm?2s?1, which is negligibly small as compared with lightning production. If the predissociation at 80–90 km is regarded as the single sink of NO, its mixing ratio, fNO, is 4 × 10?8, for the case of a surface sink fNO = 0.8 × 10?9 at 50 km. Excess amounts, , may exist in the thunderstorm region. 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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The temperature dependence of the binary recombination coefficient, α2, for the reaction NO++NO2? → products has been obtained over the range 185–530 K. It is found that the corresponding mean cross section is described by the power law , and that α2 ? B · T?0.4. Data has also been obtained for two cluster ion recombination reactions which indicate that their recombination cross sections are only about 40% larger than for the parent ions at a given temperature, the cross sections for these reactions also apparently increasing with decreasing temperature. In the light of this data and by considering the most probable positive and negative ions existing at various altitudes up to 90km in the atmosphere, the most appropriate ionic recombination coefficients in various altitude ranges are deduced. Thus, between 30 and 90 km, where the recombination process is two-body, the coefficient varies over the narrow range 5–9 × 10?8 cm3s?1, while below 30 km the process is predominantly three-body with an effective two-body rate increasing rapidly to a maximum value ≈3 × 10?6 cm3s?1 in the troposphere, these deductions being based on published laboratory determinations of three-body recombination coefficients. 相似文献
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Incoherent scatter observations of the ionospheric F1 layer above Saint-Santin (44.6°N) are analyzed after correction of a systematic error at 165 and 180 km altitude. The daytime valley observed around 200 km during summer for low solar activity conditions is explained in terms of a downward ionization drift which reaches ?30 m s?1 around 180 km. Experimental determinations of the ion drift confirm the theoretical characteristics required for the summer daytime valley as well as for the winter behaviour without a valley. The computations require an effective dissociative recombination rate of and ionizing fluxes compatible with solar activity conditions at the time when the valley is observed. 相似文献
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Linear polarimetry of Ceres at 10 μm is presented. These data represent the first published polarization measurements of an asteroid in the thermal infrared. It is found that Ceres is polarized at the 0.2-0.6% level. This data set is compared with theoretical models of the linear polarization of emitted radiation from a spherical plane. These models are used to derive the pole position and thermal inertia of Ceres. Ceres is best fit with a thermal inertia of and a pole orientation of βp = 36° ± 5°, λp = 270° ± 3°. It is concluded that 10μm polarimetry is a potentially powerful technique for remotely sensing the pole orientation and thermal inertia of asteroids. 相似文献
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The quenching rate kN2 of by N2 and the specific recombination rate α1D of O2+ leading to are re-examined in light of available laboratory and satellite data. Use of recent experimental values for the transition probabilities in a re-analysis of AE-C satellite 6300 Å airglow data results in a value for kN2 of 2.3 × 10?11 cm3s?1 at thermospheric temperatures, in excellent agreement with the laboratory measurements. This implies a value of JO2 = 1.5 × 10?6s?1 for the O2 photodissociation rate in the Schumann-Runge continuum. The specific recombination coefficient α1D = 2.1 × 10?7cm3s?1 is also in agreement with the laboratory value. Implications for the suggested reaction are discussed. 相似文献
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An approximate form of the Boltzmann equation has been used to obtain local ionization rates due to the absorption of galactic cosmic rays in the Jovian atmosphere. It is shown that the muon flux component of the cosmic ray-induced cascade may be especially importannt in ionizing the atmosphere at levels where the total number density exceeds 1019 cm?3 (well below the ionospheric layers produced by solar euv). A model containing both positive and negative ion reactions has been employed to compute equilibrium electron and ion number densities. Peak electron number densities on the order of 103 cm?3 may be expected even at relatively low magnetic latitudes. The dominant positive ions are NH4+ and CnHm+ cluster ions, with n ? 2; it is suggested that the absorption of galactic cosmic ray energy at such relatively high pressures in the Jovian atmosphere and the subsequent chemical reactions may be instrumental in the local formation of complex hydrocarbons. 相似文献
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We have measured the linewidths of the NI multiplets produced in the dissociative excitation of N2 by energy electrons. The infrared transitions excite the N(4P) resonance state by cascade and they account for > 50% of the total N(4P) cross section at 100 eV. Both the i.r. and v.u.v. lines are found to be highly Doppler broadened ( ～ 25 times the thermal Doppler line width). These results indicate that dissociative excitation of N2 produces N (4P) atoms with sufficient kinetic energy so that the resonance radiation emitted by these excited atoms would be optically thin in the Earth's upper atmosphere. We also found that the line strength ratios for the resolved components of the triplet excited by dissociative excitation differ from those predicted by the multiplicities of the states involved and used in current entrapment models; the intensity ratios also vary with the energy of the incident electron. These developments introduce new complications into the analysis of the terrestrial ultraviolet dayglow. 相似文献
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In situ measurements of stratospheric H2SO4 and HSO3vapors using passive chemical ionization mass spectrometry were made in October 1982 after the eruption of volcano El Chichon. Data were obtained between about 20 and 41 km showing [H2SO4 + HSO3] sum concentrations between about 104 and 2 × 105 cm?3 below 29 km and a steep rise above this altitude. Maximum [H2SO4 + HSO3] values of about 3 × 106 cm?3 are reached above 35 km.Partial [HSO3] concentrations increase above 34 km reaching about around 40 km. From the measurements it is concluded that H2SO4 and probably HSO3photolysis have an important influence above 34 km leading to the observed increase of [HSO3] and a depletion of H2SO4vapor.It also seems that the data support the view of heterogeneous HSO3 removal. If correct, this would imply that stratospheric aerosols are formed primarily from HSO3 rather than H2SO4vapor. 相似文献
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In this paper we confirm an earlier finding that the reaction constitutes a major source of OI 6300 Å dayglow. The rate coefficient for this reaction is found to be consistent with an auroral result, namely k1 ≈ 6 × 10?12cm3s?1. We correct an error in an earlier publication and demonstrate that reaction (1) is consistent with the laboratory determined quenching rate for the reaction where . Dissociative recombination of O+2 with electrons is found to be a major daytime source in summer above ～220 km. 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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