Upper Limit on Titan's Atmospheric Argon Abundance

Autor: Michael E. Summers, Darrell F. Strobel, Xun Zhu, Doyle T. Hall
Rok vydání: 1993
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Zdroj: Icarus. 103:333-336
ISSN: 0019-1035
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1993.1075
Popis: An analysis is conducted on the Voyager 1 UV Spectrometer solar-occultation data and a Titan flyby spectrum of the north polar region dayglow, in order to infer the tropopausal Ar mixing ratio's upper limit as a function of the CH4 mixing ratio, f(CH4). The mole-fraction upper limit of tropopausal Ar mixing ratio ranges from 0.01 to 0.1 at f(CH4) of 0.026 to as low as 0.08 at f(CH4) of 0.05. Since the best fits to the solar occultation data require f(CH4) of more than 0.26, the Ar mixing ratio must be lower than 0.1.
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