Titan's atmosphere and climate

SM Hörst - Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Titan is the only moon with a substantial atmosphere, the only other thick N2 atmosphere
besides Earth's, the site of extraordinarily complex atmospheric chemistry that far surpasses …

Negative ions in space

TJ Millar, C Walsh, TA Field - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Until a decade ago, the only anion observed to play a prominent role in astrophysics was H–
. The bound–free transitions in H–dominate the visible opacity in stars with photospheric …

Simulating the density of organic species in the atmosphere of Titan with a coupled ion-neutral photochemical model

V Vuitton, RV Yelle, SJ Klippenstein, SM Hörst… - Icarus, 2019 - Elsevier
We present a one-dimensional coupled ion-neutral photochemical kinetics and diffusion
model to study the atmospheric composition of Titan in light of new theoretical kinetics …

Atmospheric escape processes and planetary atmospheric evolution

G Gronoff, P Arras, S Baraka, JM Bell… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The habitability of the surface of any planet is determined by a complex evolution of its
interior, surface, and atmosphere. The electromagnetic and particle radiation of stars drive …

Development and validation of a parameter-free model chemistry for the computation of reliable reaction rates

V Barone, J Lupi, Z Salta… - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A recently developed model chemistry (jun-Cheap) has been slightly modified and proposed
as an effective, reliable, and parameter-free scheme for the computation of accurate reaction …

ALMA detection and astrobiological potential of vinyl cyanide on Titan

MY Palmer, MA Cordiner, CA Nixon, SB Charnley… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Recent simulations have indicated that vinyl cyanide is the best candidate molecule for the
formation of cell membranes/vesicle structures in Titan's hydrocarbon-rich lakes and seas …

Fully coupled photochemistry of the deuterated ionosphere of Mars and its effects on escape of H and D

E Cangi, M Chaffin, R Yelle, B Gregory… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although deuterium (D) on Mars has received substantial attention, the deuterated
ionosphere remains relatively unstudied. This means that we also know very little about non …

The photochemical production of aromatics in the atmosphere of Titan

JC Loison, M Dobrijevic, KM Hickson - Icarus, 2019 - Elsevier
The photochemical processes at work in the atmosphere of Titan are very complex and lead
to a great variety of compounds with aerosols as an end-product. One of the most complex …

Titan: Earth-like on the outside, ocean world on the inside

SM MacKenzie, SPD Birch, S Hörst… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Thanks to the Cassini–Huygens mission, Titan, the pale orange dot of Pioneer and
Voyager encounters, has been revealed to be a dynamic, hydrologically shaped, organic …

Saturn's atmospheric response to the large influx of ring material inferred from Cassini INMS measurements

JI Moses, ZL Brown, TT Koskinen, LN Fletcher… - Icarus, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract During the Grand Finale stage of the Cassini mission, organic-rich ring material was
discovered to be flowing into Saturn's equatorial upper atmosphere at a surprisingly large …