Hydrocarbon photochemistry and Lyman alpha albedo of Jupiter

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Jul 1980

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 239, July 1, 1980, p. 395-402.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Albedo, Hydrocarbons, Hydrogen Atoms, Jupiter Atmosphere, Lyman Alpha Radiation, Photochemical Reactions, Abundance, Emission Spectra, Gas Dissociation, Particle Motion, Planetary Composition, Radiative Transfer, Resonance Scattering, Sunlight, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Voyager 2 Spacecraft, Jupiter, Albedo, Lyman-Alpha Radiation, Photochemistry, Hydrocarbons, Particles, Magnetosphere, Brightness, Ultraviolet, Radiation, Mixing, Dissociation, Density, Data, Observations, Models, Temperatures, Reflectivity, Scat

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A combined study of hydrocarbon and atomic hydrogen photochemistry is made to calculate self-consistently the L alpha albedo of Jupiter. It is shown that the L alpha emissions observed by Voyagers I and II can be explained by resonance scattering of sunlight. Precipitation of energetic particles from the magnetosphere can provide the large required source of atomic hydrogen, although the contribution of direct particle excitation to the disk-averaged brightness is insignificant. The variability of the L alpha brightness inferred from many observations in recent years is examined. The large difference in the brightness of the He 584 A resonance line observed by Pioneer and Voyager is briefly discussed. Driving the photochemistry by solar ultraviolet radiation alone yields a maximum mixing ratio of C2H6 + C2H2 at 0.01 atm of about 4 x 10 to the -6th. The possibility of additional CH4 dissociation from precipitation of magnetospheric particles is discussed. The photochemistry of C2H2 and C2H3 is sufficiently uncertain not to permit accurate calculations of their densities and the ratio C2H6/C2H2.

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