Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Oct 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991ceol.symp..102k&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Washington, Fourth Symposium on Chemical Evolution and the Origin and Evolution of Life p 102 (SEE N92-13588 04-55)
Mathematics
Logic
Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition, Cassini Mission, Gas Chromatography, Gas Detectors, Gas Spectroscopy, Ionic Mobility, Satellite Atmospheres, Spectrometers, Titan, Biological Evolution, Chemical Evolution, Gas Mixtures
Scientific paper
The Gas Chromatograph-Ion Mobility Spectrometer (GC-IMS) was proposed as an analytical technique for the analysis of Titan's atmosphere during the Cassini Mission. The IMS is an atmospheric pressure, chemical detector that produces an identifying spectrum of each chemical species measured. When the IMS is combined with a GC as a GC-IMS, the GC is used to separate the sample into its individual components, or perhaps small groups of components. The IMS is then used to detect, quantify, and identify each sample component. Conventional IMS detection and identification of sample components depends upon a source of energetic radiation, such as beta radiation, which ionizes the atmospheric pressure host gas. This primary ionization initiates a sequence of ion-molecule reactions leading to the formation of sufficiently energetic positive or negative ions, which in turn ionize most constituents in the sample. In conventional IMS, this reaction sequence is dominated by the water cluster ion. However, many of the light hydrocarbons expected in Titan's atmosphere cannot be analyzed by IMS using this mechanism at the concentrations expected. Research at NASA Ames and PCP Inc., has demonstrated IMS analysis of expected Titan atmospheric components, including saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons, using two alternate sample ionizations mechanisms. The sensitivity of the IMS to hydrocarbons such as propane and butane was increased by several orders of magnitude. Both ultra dry (waterless) IMS sample ionization and metastable ionization were successfully used to analyze a model Titan atmospheric gas mixture.
Cohen Jeffery M.
Humphry Donald E.
Kojiro Dan R.
Stimac R. M.
Takeuchi Nozomu
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