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Apr 2010
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Through Time; A Workshop On Titan's Past, Present and Future, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, April 6th - 8th, 2010. Edited b
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Titan has an extremely thick atmosphere dominated by nitrogen, but includes a range of trace species such as hydrocarbons and nitriles. One such hydrocarbon is propane (C3H8). Propane has 21 active IR bands covering broad regions of the mid-infrared. Therefore, its ubiquitous signature may potentially mask weaker signatures of other undetected species with important roles in Titan's chemistry. Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) observations of Titan's atmosphere hint at the presence of such molecules. Unfortunately, C3H8 line atlases for the vibration bands nu8, nu21, nu20, and nu7 (869, 922, 1054, and 1157 cm-1, respectively) are not currently available for subtracting the C3H8 signal to reveal, or constrain, the signature of underlying chemical species. Using FTS spectra previously obtained by Jennings et al. (unpublished) as the source and automated analysis utilities developed for this application, we are compiling an atlas of spectroscopic parameters for propane that characterize the roto-vibrational transitions in the above bands. In this paper, we will discuss our efforts for the spectral region near the nu21 band, present initial results for spectroscopic parameters including absolute line intensities and transition frequencies, and show how these optical constants will be used in searching for other trace chemical species in Titan's atmosphere.
Hewagama Tilak
Jennings Donald
Klavans Valerie
Nixon Conor
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