Ion irradiation experiments and nitrogen bearing species on Jovian and Saturnian icy surfaces

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Oct 1999

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Planetary and Space Science, Volume 47, Issue 10-11, p. 1371-1376.

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Implantation of reactive ions into targets of planetary interest is a relevant subject to be studied in the laboratory. It could in fact produce new molecular species that are not native to those surfaces. Presented here are new laboratory results obtained by nitrogen implantation (15-30 keV N+) on frozen mixtures of H2O:CH4 (2:1). These species have been chosen in view of their possible presence on the surface of Jovian and Saturnian satellites and rings. In fact these surfaces are exposed to intense irradiation by magnetospheric and/or solar energetic particles. The laboratory investigation utilizes IR spectroscopy. The main objectives of the present study are to identify newly produced species and to verify if these (or at least if the profile of their IR bands) are different from those produced by unreactive ions impinging on targets in which nitrogen is already present, occurring in the form of frozen NH3 (Strazzulla and Palumbo, 1998) or N2 (Palumbo et al., 1999). I find that CN-bearing group is in fact formed and its IR feature has a profile (peak position and band profile) that differs from that obtained after irradiation or frozen gases containing nitrogen. The relevance the results might have to elucidate the origin of some species observed on Jovian icy moons or predicted to be observed on Saturnian satellites are outlined.

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