The Composition and Chemistry of Titan's Atmosphere

CA Nixon - ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 2024 - ACS Publications
In this review I summarize the current state of knowledge about the composition of Titan's
atmosphere and our current understanding of the suggested chemistry that leads to that …

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 …

Surface energy of the Titan aerosol analog “tholin”

X Yu, SM Hörst, C He, P McGuiggan… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The photochemical haze produced in the upper atmosphere of Titan plays a key role in
various atmospheric and surface processes on Titan. The surface energy, one important …

Spectroscopic detection of cyano-cyclopentadiene ions as dissociation products upon ionization of aniline

DB Rap, TJHH van Boxtel, B Redlich… - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The H-loss products (C6H6N+) from the dissociative ionization of aniline (C6H7N) have
been studied by infrared predissociation spectroscopy in a cryogenic ion trap instrument at …

Fingerprinting fragments of fragile interstellar molecules: dissociation chemistry of pyridine and benzonitrile revealed by infrared spectroscopy and theory

DB Rap, A Simon, K Steenbakkers… - Faraday …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The cationic fragmentation products in the dissociative ionization of pyridine and
benzonitrile have been studied by infrared action spectroscopy in a cryogenic ion trap …

Plasma chemical conversion of methane by pulsed electron beams and non-self-sustained discharges

DL Kuznetsov, VV Uvarin… - Journal of Physics D …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Investigations of methane conversion in atmospheric-pressure mixtures of various
composition and temperature, irradiated by pulsed nanosecond electron beams and non …

Ion-driven organic chemistry for Titan-like atmospheres: Implications for N-dominated super-Earth exoplanets

J Bourgalais, N Carrasco, Y Miguel, O Venot… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Context. Characterizing temperate (200–1000 K) super-Earth atmospheres is one of the
future challenges in exoplanetary science. One of the major difficulties comes from the …

A cross-laboratory comparison study of Titan haze analogs: Surface energy

J Li, X Yu, E Sciamma-O'Brien, C He… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In Titan's nitrogen-methane atmosphere, photochemistry leads to the production of complex
organic particles, forming Titan's thick haze layers. Laboratory-produced aerosol analogs …

Heavy Positive Ion Groups in Titan's Ionosphere from Cassini Plasma Spectrometer IBS Observations

RP Haythornthwaite, AJ Coates… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Titan's ionosphere contains a plethora of hydrocarbons and nitrile cations and anions as
measured by the Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer and Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) …

On the formation of CN bonds in Titan's atmosphere—a unified reaction valley approach study

M Freindorf, N Beiranvand, AAA Delgado, Y Tao… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
In this work, we investigated the formation of protonated hydrogen cyanide HCNH+ and
methylene amine cation CH 2 NH 2+ _2NH_2^+ (both identified in Titan's upper …