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UV Studies Related to the Physico-Chemistry of Planetary and Cometary Environments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

M.-C. Gazeau
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, UMR CNRS 7583, Universités Paris VII-Paris XII, Créteil, France
Y. Benilan
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, UMR CNRS 7583, Universités Paris VII-Paris XII, Créteil, France
H. Cottin
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, UMR CNRS 7583, Universités Paris VII-Paris XII, Créteil, France
V. Vuitton
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, UMR CNRS 7583, Universités Paris VII-Paris XII, Créteil, France
A. Jolly
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, UMR CNRS 7583, Universités Paris VII-Paris XII, Créteil, France
F. Raulin
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, UMR CNRS 7583, Universités Paris VII-Paris XII, Créteil, France

Abstract

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The complex organic chemistry involved in comets and planetary atmospheres can be better understood via comparison between observations and results obtained by models. In this paper, we point out some lacks in chemical schemes used in models that can be responsible for the discrepancies between observational and theoretical data. Then, we propose UV studies (coupling experimental and theoretical approaches) to be developed in order to determine fundamental parameters: absorption cross sections, quantum yields and rate constants which will be used to improve models as well as to better analyse and interpret observations.

Type
II. Joint Discussions
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2002

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