Computer Science
Scientific paper
Apr 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998ssrv...84..251m&link_type=abstract
Space Science Reviews, v. 84, Issue 1/2, p. 251-263 (1998).
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The Galileo Probe Mass Spectrometer measurements in the atmosphere of Jupiter give D/H = (2.6 +/- 0.7) x 10-5 3He/4He = (1.66 +/- 0.05) x 10-4 These ratios supercede earlier results by Niemann et al. (1996) and are based on a reevaluation of the instrument response at high count rates and a more detailed study of the contributions of different species to the mass peak at 3 amu. The D/H ratio is consistent with Voyager and ground based data and recent spectroscopic and solar wind (SW) values obtained from the Infrared Spectroscopic Observatory (ISO) and Ulysses. The 3He/4He ratio is higher than that found in meteoritic gases (1.5 +/- 0.3) x 10-4. The Galileo result for D/H when compared with that for hydrogen in the local interstellar medium (1.6 +/- 0.12) x 10-5 implies a small decrease in D/H in this part of the universe during the past 4.55 billion years. Thus, it tends to support small values of primordial D/H - in the range of several times 10-5 rather than several times 10-4. These results are also quite consistent with no change in (D+3He)/H during the past 4.55 billion years in this part of our galaxy.
Atreya Sushil K.
Donahue Thomas M.
Mahaffy Paul R.
Niemann Hasso B.
Owen Tobias C.
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