Mimicking Titan's upper atmosphere reactivity with a RF-capacitively coupled N2-CH4 plasma

Nathalie Carrasco (1) , Thomas Gautier (1) , Et-Touhami Es-Sebbar (1) , P. Pernot (2) , Guy Cernogora (1)

1 PLANETO - LATMOS
2 LCPO - Laboratoire de Chimie Physique D'Orsay

Titan is the largest satellite of Saturn. Its upper atmosphere is well-known for the production of a phochemical organic smog. We simulate this ionospheric chemistry with a RF plasma setup. We present here the study of the gas phase composition, neutral and positively charged species, correlated with aerosol production efficiency

Domaines: Planétologie et astrophysique de la terre [astro-ph.EP]; Planétologie et astrophysique de la terre [astro-ph.EP]

Nathalie Carrasco, Thomas Gautier, Et-Touhami Es-Sebbar, P. Pernot, Guy Cernogora. Mimicking Titan's upper atmosphere reactivity with a RF-capacitively coupled N2-CH4 plasma. ESCAMPIG 2012 (Europhysics Conference on the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases), Jul 2012, Viana do Castelo, Portugal. 2 p. ⟨hal-00741736⟩