Methane photochemistry on Neptune - Ethane and acetylene mixing ratios and haze production

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Dec 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993icar..106..442r&link_type=abstract

Icarus, vol. 106, p. 442

Physics

53

Methane, Photochemical Reactions, Neptune Atmosphere, Ethyl Alcohol, Acetylene, Haze, Mixing Ratios, Atmospheric Models, Infrared Spectrometers, Ultraviolet Spectroscopy

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Voyager observations of hydrocarbons and hazes in the Neptune stratosphere are here analyzed by means of a 1D methane photochemical model whose hydrocarbon predictions are sensitive to the height profile of the eddy diffusion coefficient, K. Agreement with Voyager IRIS spectra entails that K be weak in the lower stratosphere, but vigorous in the upper. A lifetime analysis indicates that the model haze-production rate should be averaged over both solar maximum and minimum conditions; this yields model haze density consistent with Voyager photopolarimeter data.

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