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The radiative lifetimes of cometary OH are calculated as a function of the heliocentric velocity of the comet and the velocity distributions of the product atoms are determined. At a distance of 1 AU from the Sun, the lifetimes vary between 1.2×105 and 1.9×105 sec at solar minimum and between 1.0×105 and 1.4×105 sec at solar maximum, depending upon velocity. Continuous absorption into the repulsive 12Σ- state is major destruction path. The calculated lifetimes are generally consistent with the lifetimes inferred from observations, but suggest some elaboration of the models is necessary. Photodissociation of OH produces a low-velocity component of hydrogen atoms at 8 km sec?1 relative to the parent OH molecule and a high-velocity component between 17 and 27 km sec?1. Photodissociation of OH leads to metastable O(1D) and O(1S) and is an additional source of the red and green line emission of atomic oxygen. The lifetime of OD is estimated to be about 4.3× 105 sec at solar minimum and 2.6×105 sec at solar maximum so that the OD/OH ratio in comets is enhanced relative to the HDO/H2O production ratio by a factor between 2 and 3. Photodissociation of OD produces only high-velocity D atoms with a mean value of 17 km sec?1.  相似文献   

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J.E. Blamont  M. Festou 《Icarus》1974,23(4):538-544
Two monochromatic pictures of the Comet Kohoutek (1973f) were taken on January 15, 1974 in the resonance light (A2Σ ? X2 ∏) of the radical OH with a photographic telescope placed on board the NASA 990 Convair airplane. From an intensity profile we derive the production rate of OH radicals QOH = 4 xsx 1028 moleculesec ?1sr?1 at 0.6 AU and the lifetime of the OH radical which is τOH = 4.5 × 104 sec at 0.6 AU. This short lifetime (very similar to the lifetime of H2O) combined with the high total production rate of gas in comets can explain the observed velocity of 8km sec?1 for the H-atoms: The H-atoms produced by photodissociation of H2O are thermalized at short distancesfrom the nucleus; the H-atoms produced by photodissociation of OH have a velocity of ?8km sec?1 and can reach the outer part of the hydrogen envelope.  相似文献   

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Very-high spectral resolution observations of the neutral Na emission have enabled measurements of the velocity dispersions of the Na atoms within ∼40,000 km of the opto center of Hale-Bopp. Asymmetric Na D line profiles imply both an in situ or core Na source and a secondary Na source at locations within the inner coma. The core velocity distribution had a FWHM of 2 km s-1. The extended source FWHM increased with distance from the nucleus (up to ∼6 km s-1, but appeared smaller in the more dusty regions (∼2.5–3.0 km s-1) of the inner coma. The D2/D1 line strength ratio was consistent with an optically thin inner coma. Within 5,000 km of the opto center the continuum spatial intensity profiles decreased as ∼r-1 while the Na D emission decreased at less than r-1. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

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T.Y. Kong  M.B. McElroy 《Icarus》1977,32(2):168-189
A variety of models are explored to study the photochemistry of CO2 in the Martian atmosphere with emphasis on reactions involving compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Acceptable models are constrained to account for measured concentrations of CO and O above 90 km, with an additional requirement that they should be in accord with observations of CO, O2, and O3 in the lower atmosphere. Dynamical mixing must be exceedingly rapid at altitudes above 90 km, with effective eddy diffusion coefficients in excess of 107 cm2 sec?1. If recombination of CO2 is to occur mainly by gas phase chemistry, catalyzed by trace quantities of H, OH, and HO2, mixing must be rapid over the altitude interval 30 to 40 km. The value implied for the diffusion coefficient in this region is a function of assumptions made regarding the rates for reaction of OH with HO2 to form H2O and of the rate for reaction of HO2 with itself to form H2O2. If rates for these reactions are taken to have values similar to rates used in current models for the Earth's stratosphere, the eddy diffusion coefficient at 40 km on Mars should be about 5 × 107 cm2 sec?1, consistent with Zurek's (1976) estimate for this parameter inferred from tidal theory. Surface chemistry could have an influence on the abundances of atmospheric CO and O2, but a major effect would imply sluggish mixing at all altitudes below 50 km and in addition would carry implications for the magnitude of the rates for reaction of OH with HO2 and HO2 with itself.  相似文献   

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Dirty ice of a second kind (major components, H2O, CO, and N2; minor components less than several percents, NH3, CH4, and other organic substances such as HCN, CH3CN etc.) is assumed for the composition of volatiles in the cometary nucleus. The consistency with the observations of molecular ions and daughter molecules in the cometary atmosphere is argued by taking into account various ion-molecular reactions and dissociative recombinations. There is a satisfactory agreement for the second kind of dirty-ice model, but the presence of large amounts of CH4 and NH3 is found to be rather in contradiction with observational evidence. A velocity of 8 km s?1 for the hydrogen atoms, derived from analysis of the hydrogen Lyman-alpha corona around comets, is found from the dissociative recombination of H3O+, the dominant constituent of cometary ionosphere, in accordance with H3O++e ?→OH+H+H.  相似文献   

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Models are developed to describe the spatial distribution of gases emitted by Io and are applied to recent observations which indicate extensive gas clouds of hydrogen and sodium in orbit around Jupiter. Hydrogen and sodium atoms are emitted from Io with velocities in the range 2 to 3 km sec?1, with fluxes of about 1010 and 108cm?2sec?1 for hydrogen and sodium respectively. Hydrogen atoms may be formed by photodecomposition of gases such as NH3 or H2S released from the satellite surface and may escape thermally from an exosphere whose temperature is about 500 K. Sodium may be ejected from the surface by energetic particles or by ultraviolet radiation and it appears that a non-thermal mechanism drawing energy from Jupiter's magnetic field is required in order to account for its release to space.  相似文献   

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We study disparity between Hα and Hβ in early spectra of the type IIP supernova SN 2008in. The point is that these lines cannot be described simultaneously in a spherically-symmetric model with the smooth density distribution. It is shown that an assumption of a clumpy structure of external layers of the envelope resolves the problem. We obtain estimates of the velocity at the inner border of the inhomogeneous zone (≈6100 km s?1), the filing factor of inhomogeneities (≤0.5), and the mass of the inhomogeneous layers (~0.03 M ). The amplitude of flux fluctuations in the early spectrum of HαF/F ~ 10?2) imposes a constraint on the size of inhomogeneities (≤200 km s?1). A detection of fluctuations in the early Hα of type IIP supernovae might become an observational test of the inhomogeneous structure of their envelopes. We propose also the indirect test of the clumpy structure of external layers: the study of properties of the initial radiation outburst due to the shock breakout. The inhomogeneous structure of external layers of type IIP supernovae could be an outcome of density perturbations and density inversion in outer convective layers of presupernova red supergiant.  相似文献   

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A model of the predawn bulge ionosphere composition and structure is constructed and compared with the ion mass spectrometer measurements from the Pioneer Venus Orbiter during orbits 117 and 120. Particular emphasis is given to the identification of the mass-2 ion which we find unequivocally due to D+ (and not H2+). The atmospheric D/H ratio of 1.4% and 2.5% is obtained at the homopause (~ 130 km) for the two orbits. The H2+ contribution to the mass-2 ion density is less than 10%, and the H2 mixing ratio must be <0.1 ppm at 130 km altitude. The He+ data require a downward He+ flux of ~2 × 107 cm?2 sec?1 in the predawn region which suggest that the light ions also flow across the terminator from day to night along with the observed O+ ion flow.  相似文献   

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Ionization of the atmosphere of Titan by galactic cosmic rays is a very significant process throughout the altitude range of 100 to 400 km. An approximate form of the Boltzmann equation for cosmic ray transport has been used to obtain local ionization rates. Models of both ion and neutral chemistry have been employed to compute electron and ion density profiles for three different values of the H2/CH4 abundance ratio. The peak electron density is of the order 103 cm?3. The most abundant positive ions are C2H9+ and C3H9+, while the predicted densities of the negative ions H? and CH3? are very small (<10?4 that of the positive ions). It is suggested that inclusion of the ion chemistry is important in the computation of the H and CH3 density profiles in the lower ionosphere.  相似文献   

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Altitude profiles for the number densities of NO, NO2, NO3, N2O5, HNO2, CH3O, CH3O2, H2CO, OH, and HO2 are calculated as a function of time of day with a steady-state photochemical model in which the altitude profiles for the number densities of H2O, CH4, H2, CO, O3, and the sum of NO and NO2 are fixed at values appropriate to a summer latitude of 34°. Average daily profiles are calculated for the long-lived species, HNO3, H2O2, and CH3O2H.The major nitrogen compound HNO3 may have a number density approaching 5 × 1011 molecules cm?3 at the surface, although an effective loss path due to collisions with particulates could greatly reduce this value.The number density of OH remains relatively unchanged in the first 6 km and reaches 1 × 107 molecules cm?3 at noon, while the number density of HO2 decreases throughout the lower troposphere from its noontime value of 8 × 108 molecules cm?3 at the surface.H2O2 and H2CO both have number densities in the ppb range in the lower troposphere.Owing to decreasing temperature and water concentration, the production of radicals and their steady-state number densities decrease with altitude, reaching a noontime minimum of 1 × 108 molecules cm?3 for OH and 3 × 107 molecules cm?3 for HO2 at the tropopause. The related minor species show even sharper decreases with increasing altitude.The primary path for interconverting OH and HO2 serves as the major sink for CO and leads to a tropospheric lifetime for CO of ~0.1 yr.Another reaction cycle, the oxidation of CH4, is quite important in the lower troposphere and leads to the production of H2CO along with the destruction of CH4 for which a tropospheric lifetime of ~2 yr is estimated.The destruction of H2CO that was produced in the CH4 oxidation cycle provides the major source of CO and H2 in the atmosphere.  相似文献   

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Results of analysis of about 150 autocorrelation functions are presented for the period from about 2300 hr on 5 October to about 1200 hr on 7 October 1967. A large percentage concentration of helium ions are observed. It reaches a value as high as 50 per cent with a maximum at around 800 km. Downward heat fluxes deduced from the temperature variations yield a value of about 2–2.5 × 109 eV cm?2 sec?1 during the period 1200–1600 hr and a value of about 1.5 × 108 eV cm?2 sec?1 during the period 0100–0400 hr at night. These agree well with other measurements. The O+ ions are found not to be in diffusive equilibrium, and from the O+ fluxes and the electron density profiles, the O+ drift velocity has been estimated. It is found that the speed can be as high as 1–5 × 103 cm sec?1 even at altitudes as high as 700 km.  相似文献   

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We find that faint sodium emission originating in the middle Jupiter magnetosphere has two distinct kinematical components. The “normal” signature of atoms on bound orbits with large apojoves seems always to be present, and we suggest these atoms are an extension of the bright, near-Io sodium cloud. The “fast” signature, with speeds up to at least 100 km sec?1, is seen only occasionally, and we suggest it is due to an interaction of the near-Io sodium cloud with the corotating, heavy-ion plasma. Both elastic and charge-exchange collisions seem consistent with the observed kinematical and temporal signatures. Elastic collisions seem marginally more capable of producing the high observed sodium atom speeds. We predict observable occurences of the fast component in the hours following passage of the Io sodium cloud through the plasma centrifugal symmetry surface if Io is at a favorable orbital longitude. Between 10 and 20 RJ we find an atomic sodium density ~10?2 cm?3. If the photoionization lifetime applies, an Io source of at least 1026 sodium atoms sec? is required to maintain this remote sodium population.  相似文献   

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W.F. Huebner  L.E. Snyder  D. Buhl 《Icarus》1974,23(4):580-584
Radio emission spectra of the J = 1?0 ground state transition of H12C14N has been detected in comet Kohoutek (1973f) before and after perihelion passage. The HCN gas production rate is about 1028 molecules sec?1 at a heliocentric distance of ~0.4 AU. Multiple Doppler shifts in the observed spectrum suggest jets with velocities ranging up to several km sec?1.  相似文献   

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A self-consistent multi-fluid solution of the dynamical and thermal structure of an H2O-dominated, two-phase dusty-gas cometary atmosphere has been obtained by solving the simultaneous set of differential equations representing conservation of number density, momentum and energy, together with the transfer of solar radiation in streams responsible for the major photolytic processes and the heating of the nucleus. The validity of this model, as in the earlier single-fluid ones, is restricted to the collision-dominated region where all the heavy species (ions and neutrals) are assumed to achieve a common temperature and velocity. However, recognizing that the photo-produced hydrogen is rather inefficient in exchanging energy with the heavier species we treat the hydrogen separately: it is assumed to be composed of a thermalized component (the second fluid) and a pre-thermal component.The present model, which is transonic due to the presence of the dust in the inner coma, causes the heavy species to expand subsonically from the nucleus and to smoothly traverse the sonic point within about 45 m of the nucleus, although the dust-gas coupling persists to about 50 km. While the temperature of the heavy species goes through a strong inversion within about 100 km from the nucleus, due to the effects of IR cooling and expansion, it increases to about 300–400 K in the outermost part of the collision-dominated coma due to UV photolytic heating. These temperatures are smaller by a factor of 2–3 from the predictions of the earlier single-fluid models, which assumed instant thermalization of the photo-produced hydrogen.While the velocities of the heavy species and the thermal hydrogen increase to, respectively, 1.1 km s–1 and 1.6 km s–1 in the outer (collisional) coma, the velocity of the pre-thermal component reaches about 15 km s–1. This latter value is consistent with Ly- observations of a number of comets, which implies a fast (20 km s–1) hydrogen component in the outer coma. The boundary of the exosphere, where the non-thermal hydrogen dominates, is predicted to be around 1.5×104 km from the nucleus. The calculations are for a comet of radius 2.5 km with a dust/gas ratio of 1, at a heliocentric distance of 1 AU.  相似文献   

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Density profiles for CO, O, and O2 in the Cytherean atmosphere above 90 km are plotted with eddy diffusion coefficient (K) as a parameter, subject to the constraint that the mixing ratios of CO and O2 approach their observed value or values under the observed upper limit at the lower boundary. It is then shown that the value of K puts upper limits on the amount of hydrogen (in the form of H2O, HCl, and H2) the atmosphere near 90km can contain. This value is a function of the density and temperature of hydrogen at the critical level and the magnitude of the total escape flux, where unspecified flux mechanisms other than thermal are postulated ad hoc. In general these constraints call for large values of K to accomodate the atomic hydrogen produced by measured mixing ratios of HCl and H2O. Hence they constrain thee amount of O in the upper atmosphere to values well under 1% at 130 km unless there are very large hydrogen escape fluxes, 107 cm?2sec?1 or larger. The freedom to assume arbitrary amounts of H2 in the atmosphere is also restricted. We suggest either very effective escape mechanisms—despite low exospheric hydrogen densities—or novel excitation mechanisms for O(33S) and O(35S) in the upper atmosphere.  相似文献   

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The ultraviolet spectra of the star RU Lup obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope are analyzed. Emission lines are identified. The presence of absorption components with a nearly zero residual intensity in the Mg II resonance doublet lines is indicative of mass outflow with a velocity V ?300 km s?1. These lines also exhibit a broad (?1400 km s?1 at the base) component originating in the star itself. The profiles of the (optically thin) Si II] and Si III]1892 Å lines for the first time unequivocally prove that these lines originate in an accretion shock wave rather than in the chromosphere, with the gas infall velocity being V 0?400 km s?1. The intensity ratio of the C IV 1550 Å and Si IV 1400 Å resonance doublet components was found to be close to unity, suggesting a high accreted-gas density, logN 0>12.5. Molecular H2 Lyman lines formed in the stellar wind were detected. The H I Lα luminosity of RU Lup was found from their intensities to exceed 10% of L bol. Radiation pressure in the Lα line on atomic hydrogen may play a significant role in the initial acceleration of stellar-wind matter, but the effect of Lα emission on the dynamics of molecular gas is negligible.  相似文献   

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The rates of photodissociation of the OH and OD molecules from absorption of solar radiation in he X2Π-A2Σ+ electronic transition are calculated to lie between 3.5 and 6.7 × 10?6 sec?1 for OH for heliocentric velocities between -60 and +60 km sec?1 and to be about 4.7 × 10?7 sec?1 for OD at 1 AU from the Sun. The corresponding lifetimes, which are upper bounds to the actual lifetimes, are generally consistent with the observational cometary data.  相似文献   

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Fabry-Perot interferometry of Comet Kohoutek (1973f) at 1.1 μm with a resolution of 1.2 Å showed emission features identified as OH and CN lines in addition to a strong Fraunhofer continuum. Central intensities have been derived for three cases (uniform, gaussian, and gaussian plus ??1 law) of brightness profiles in the comet coma. Limits for CH4, H2O, HeI, SiL and CrI are also derived.  相似文献   

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We present recent observations of the OH radical at λ 18 cm with the Nançay radio telescope in comets Meier (1978 XXI), Bradfield (1979 X), Meier (1980q), P/Encke (1980), and Bradfield (1980t). The analysis of the OH radio line shape is a powerful tool to study the kinematics of the coma. The expansion velocity of the OH molecules is found to be ≈1.5 km sec?1 at rh = 1 AU, and decreases with increasing heliocentric distance. The line profile is generally asymmetric, which demonstrates the Greenstein effect on the fluorescent excitation mechanism and/or anisotropic outgassing of the nucleus. In several cases, especially for comet Meier (1978 XXI), an asymmetry is also found in the east-west brightness distribution of the OH line, showing again the Greenstein effect and/or anisotropic outgassing. An excitation model by uv pumping and fluorescence of the OH radical, which agrees with the observations at least in the first order, and the application of Haser's model lead to the production rate of the parent molecule of OH. There is a close correlation between this gas production rate and the visual brightness of the comet. Our estimates of gas production rates are smaller than or equal to those obtained from uv measurements, but both radio and uv estimates depend heavily on the parameters used in Haser's models.  相似文献   

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