Physics – Chemical Physics
Scientific paper
2011-10-16
Physics
Chemical Physics
10 pages, 3 figures, 22 references
Scientific paper
Isotope effects associated with gas phase N2 photolysis are used to interpret Martian atmospheric evolution, icy satellite atmospheric chemistry and meteorite isotopic anomalies from nebular N2 photochemistry. To interpret observations at the highest level, fundamental understanding of the precise wavelength dependency of the process must be known. In this paper VUV isotopic photodissociation effects are calculated as a function of wavelength at different wavelength slices in the 12.5-15 eV range. A very strong wavelength dependence is observed, which is significant for experiments. An observable effect is possible for the width of the beam profile at the advanced light source, ALS that may produce sufficient photolysis product for high precision isotopic analysis. A significantly more pronounced effect is predicted for a beam narrower by a factor of four providing a potential experimental test of the model. The spectrum is computed ab initio. It manifests two physical mechanisms for the isotope effect and they can be discriminated using a narrow beam. The fractionation is larger for the rarer heaviest isotopomer 15N15N and half as large for 15N14N.
Levine Robyn D.
Muskatel B. H.
Remacle F.
Thiemens Mark H.
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