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Sep 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008dps....40.3504m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #40, #35.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 40, p.459
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We use the Caltech/JPL KINETICS code (Allen et al. 1981, JGR 86, 3617) to develop 1-D (in altitude) photochemical models for Jupiter's troposphere that are consistent with available Cassini, Galileo, Voyager, and Earth-based observations of ammonia and phosphine, and upper limits for HCN. As a test of the adopted chemical reaction list, we simulate laboratory experiments of coupled NH3-PH3 and NH3-C2H2 photochemistry (Ferris et al. 1984, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 106, 318; Ferris and Ishikawa 1988, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 110, 4306; Keane et al. 1996, Icarus 122, 205). We find that the vertical profile of PH3 is sensitive to the assumed tropospheric eddy diffusion coefficient and aerosol extinction, both of which are loosely constrained by observations and seem to vary with latitude. The NH3 profile is controlled by condensation and is relatively insensitive to the eddy diffusion coefficient. As was determined by previous photochemical models, the dominant products of Jovian tropospheric chemistry are P2H4, N2H4, red phosphorus, NH2PH2, and N2. All of these species except N2 will condense. Diphosphine (P2H4) is an underappreciated condensate that will likely be more important than N2H4 as an aerosol component on Jupiter as well as Saturn. Little is known about the chemistry and properties of NH2PH2, but this product could also be an important condensable constituent. Coupled NH3-C2H2 photochemistry does not readily occur in Jupiter's troposphere due to the low predicted (and observed) tropospheric C2H2 abundance. The models therefore produce only a small amount of HCN (well within upper limits), and even smaller amounts of the nitriles, hydrazones, and other organo-nitrogen molecules identified in the laboratory experiments mentioned above.
This work was supported by the NASA Planetary Atmospheres Program (NNX08AF05G) and the Lunar and Planetary Institute/USRA.
Keane Thomas C.
Moses Julianne I.
Sperier A. D.
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