Studies and Analysis 2006 and Previous Years
- Physical properties of Titan's surface at the Huygens landing site from the surface Science Package Acoustic Properties sensor ( API-S )
Icarus, Volume 185, Issue 2, Pages 457-465 ( December 2006 )
M.C.Towner, J.R.C.Garry, R.D.Lorenz, A.Hagermann, B.Hathi, H.Svedhem, B.C.Clark, M.R.Leese and J.C.Zarnecki
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- Mapping of Titan: Results from the first Titan radar passes
Icarus, Volume 185, Issue 2, Pages 443-456 ( December 2006 )
E.R.Stofan, J.I.Lunine, R.Lopes, F.Paganelli, R.D.Lorenz, C.A.Wood, R.Kirk, S.Wall, C.Elachi, L.A.Soderblom et al.
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- Reflectance spectra and chemical structure of Titan's tholins: Application to the analysis of Cassini-Huygens observations.
Icarus, Volume 185, Issue 1, Pages 301-307 ( November 2006 )
J.-M.Bernard, E.Quirico, O.Brissaud, G.Montagnac, B.Reynard, P.McMillan, P.Coll, M.-J.Nguyen, F.Raulin and B.Schmitt
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- Experimental and theoretical study of hydrocarbon photochemistry applied to Titan stratosphere
Icarus, Volume 185, Issue 1, Pages 287-300 ( November 2006 )
V. Vuitton, J.-F.Doussin, Y.Benilan, F.Raulin and M.-C.Gazeau
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- Dissipation of Titan's south polar clouds
Icarus, Volume 184, Issue 2, Pages 517-523 ( October 2006 )
Emily L. Schaller, Michael E. Brown, Henry G. Roe, Antonin H. Bouchez and Chadwick A. Trujillo
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- A tidal explanation for the Titan haze layers
Icarus, Volume 183, Issue 2, Pages 471-478 ( August 2006 )
Richard L.Walterscheid and Gerard Schubert
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- The effect of a dense atmosphere on the tidally induced potential of Titan
Icarus, Volume 183, Issue 1, Pages 230-232 ( July 2006 )
Özgür Karatekin and Tim Van Hoolst
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- Calculations of the thermochemistry of six reactions leading to ammonia formation in Titan's atmosphere
Icarus, Volume 183, Issue 1, Pages 153-158 ( July 2006 )
Su-hong Ge, Xin-lu Cheng, Xiang-dong Yang, Zi-jiang Liu and Wei Wang
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- The vertical structure of Titan's upper atmosphere from Cassini Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer measurements
Icarus, Volume 182, Issue 2, Pages 567-576 ( June 2006 )
Roger V. Yelle, N. Borggren, V. de la Haye, W.T. Kasprzak, H.B. Niemann, I. Müller-Wodarg and J.H Waite, Jr
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- Thermal interactions of the Huygens probe with the Titan environment: Constraint on near-surface wind
Icarus, Volume 182, Issue 2, Pages 559-566 ( June 2006 )
Ralph D. Lorenz
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- Modelling of possible mud volcanism on Titan
Icarus, Volume 182, Issue 2, Pages 550-558 ( June 2006 )
A.Dominic Fortes and Peter M.Grindrod
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- Gravitational tidal waves in Titan's upper atmosphere
Icarus, Volume 182, Issue 1, Pages 251-258 ( May 2006 )
Darrell F. Strobel
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- Methane, ethane, and mixed clouds in Titan's atmosphere: Properties derived from microphysical modeling
Icarus, Volume 182, Issue 1, Pages 230-250 ( May 2006 )
Erika L. Barth and Owen B. Toon
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- A large cloud outburst at Titan's south pole
Icarus, Volume 182, Issue 1, Pages 224-229 ( May 2006 )
Emily L. Schaller, Michael E. Brown, Henry G. Roe and Antonin H. Bouchez
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- Predictions of the electrical conductivity and charging of the aerosols in Titan's atmosphere
Icarus, Volume 181, Issue 2, Pages 527-544 ( April 2006 )
W.J. Borucki, R.C. Whitten, E.L.O. Bakes, E. Barth and S.Tripathi
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- Sediment transport by liquid surfacial flow: Application to Titan
Icarus, Volume 181, Issue1, Pages 235-242 ( March 2006 )
Devon M.Burr, Joshua P.Emery, Ralph D.Lorenz, Geoffrey C.Collins and Paul A.Carling
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- Latitudinal variations of HCN, HC3N and C2N2 in Titan's stratosphere derived from Cassini CIRS data
Icarus, Volume 181, Issue1, Pages 243-255 ( March 2006 )
N.A.Teanby, P.G.J.Irwin, R.de Kok, C.A.Nixon, A.Coustenis, B.Bézard, S.B.Calcutt, N.E.Bowles, F.M.Flasar, L.Fletcher et al.
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- Titan's 3-micron spectral region from ISO high-resolution spectroscopy
Icarus, Volume 180, Issue1, Pages 176-185 ( January 2006 )
Athena Coustenis, Alberto Negrão, Alberto Salama, Bernhard Schulz, Emmanuel Lellouch, Pascal Rannou, Pierre Drossart, Thérèse Encrenaz, Bernard Schmitt, Vincent Boudon and Andrei Nikitin
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- Characterization of zonal winds in the stratosphere of Titan with UVES
Icarus, Volume 179, Issue 2, Pages 497-510 ( December 2005 )
D.Luz, T.Civeit, R.Courtin, J-P.Lebreton, D.Gautier, P.Rannou, A.Kaufer, O.Witasse, L.Lara and F. Ferri
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- An investigation of Titan's aerosols using microwave analog measurements and radiative transfer modeling
Icarus, Volume 179, Issue 2, Pages 511-522 ( December 2005 )
J.E.Thomas-Osip, B.A.S.Gustafson, L.Kolokolova and Y.-L.Xu
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- The role of Fischer-Tropsch catalysis in the origin of methane-rich Titan
Icarus, Volume 178, Issue 1, Pages 154-164 ( November 2005 )
Yasuhito Sekine, Seiji Sugita, Takafumi Shido, Takashi Yamamota, Yasuhiro Iwasawa, Toshihiko Kadono and Takafumi Matsui
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- Condensed species in Titan's stratosphere: Confirmation of crystalline cyanoacetylene ( HC3N ) and evidence for crystalline acetylene ( C2H2 ) on Titan
Icarus, Volume 178, Issue 1, Pages 165-170 ( November 2005 )
R. K. Khanna
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- Possibilities for methanogenic life in liquid methane on the surface of Titan
Icarus, Volume 178, Issue 1, Pages 274-276 ( November 2005 )
C. P. Mckay and H. D. Smith
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- Tidal dissipation within large icy satellites: Applications to Europa and Titan
Icarus, Volume 177, Issue 2, Pages 534-549 ( October 2005 )
G. Tobie, A. Mocquet and C. Sotin
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- Maps of Titan's surface from 1 to 2.5 µm
Icarus, Volume 177, Issue 1, Pages 99-105 ( September 2005 )
Athena Coustenis, Mathieu Hirtzig, Eric Gendron, Pierre Drossart, Olivier Lai, Michel Combes and Alberto Negrão
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- Photochemical processes on Titan: Irradiation of mixtures of gases that simulate Titan's atmosphere
Icarus, Volume 177, Issue 1, Pages 106-115 ( September 2005 )
Buu N. Tran, Jeffrey C. Joseph, Michael Force, Robert G. Briggs, Veronique Vuitton and James P. Ferris
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- Condensed species in Titan's atmosphere: Identification of crystalline propionitrile ( C2H5CN, CH3CH2'''N) based on laboratory infrared data
Icarus, In Press, Corrected Proof, available online 12 April 2005
R.K.Khanna
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- Condensate clouds in Titan's north polar stratosphere
Icarus, In Press, Corrected Proof, available online 7 April 2005
Louis.A Maya and Robert.E Samuelson
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- On the maintenance of thermal wind balance and equatorial superrotation in Titan's stratosphere
Icarus, In Press, Corrected Proof, available online 7 April 2005
Xun Zhu and Darrell F.Strobel
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- Carbon monoxide fluorescence from Titan's atmosphere
Icarus, In Press, Corrected Proof, available online 17 March 2005
M.A.Lopez-Valverde, E.Lellouch and A.Coustenis
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- Ejection of nitrogen from Titan's atmosphere by magnetospheric ions and pick-up ions
Icarus, Volume 175, Issue 1, May 2005, available online 7 March 2005
M.Michael, R.E.Johnson, F.Leblanc, M.Liu, J.G.Luhmann and V.I.Shematovich
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- Impact cratering on Titan II: Global melt, escaping ejecta, and aqueous alteration of surface organics
Icarus, In Press, Corrected Proof, available online 7 March 2005
Natalia Artemieva and Jonathan I.Lunine
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- Titan's internal structure inferred from a coupled thermal-orbital model
Icarus, In Press, Corrected Proof, available online 3 March 2005
Gabriel Tobie, Olivier Grasset, Jonathan I.Lunine, Antoine Mocquet and Christophe Sotin
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- A fast computation of the diurnal secondary ion production in the ionosphere of Titan
Icarus, Volume 174, Issue 1, March 2005
Jean Lilensten, Cyril Simon, Olivier Witasse, Odile Dutuit, Roland Thissen and Christian Alcaraz
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- Sea-surface wave growth under extraterrestrial atmospheres.Preliminary wind tunnel experiments with application to Mars and Titan
Icarus, In Press, Corrected Proof, available online 25 February 2005
Ralph D.Lorenz, Erin R.Kraal, Eric E.Eddlemon, Jered Cheney and Ronald Greeley
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- Convective plumes and the scarcity of Titan's clouds
Published online in "Geophysical Research Letters", 7 January 2005
Geophysical Research Letters, Vol 32, L01201, doi:10.1029/2004GL021415, 2005
Lorenz Ralph D, Griffith Caitlin A, Lunine Jonathan I, McKay Christopher P, Rennò Nilton O
The abstract of the paper is available at the following webpage: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2005/2004GL02415.shtml
- Titan's stratospheric composition driven by condensation and dynamics
Published online in the Journal of Geophysical Research, 23 December 2004
J Geophys Res, Vol 109, N° E12, E12005 10.1029/2004JE002282
Hourdin Frédéric, Lebonnois Sébastien, Luz David, Rannou Pascal
The abstract of the paper is available at the following address: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2004/2004JE002282.shtml
- Numerical calculations of the longevity of impact oases on Titan
Icarus, In Press, Corrected Proof, available online 30 Novembre 2004
David P.O'Brien, Ralph D.Lorenz and Jonathan I.Lunine
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- Meteorological assessment of the surface temperatures on Titan: constraints on the surface type
Icarus, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 November 2004
Tetsuya Tokano, Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie, Universität zu Köln, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Köln, Germany
The abstract of the paper is on the following address: http://www.sciencedirect.com
- Clouds, haze, and CH4, CH3D, HCN, and C2H2 in the atmosphere of Titan probed via 3 micrometer spectroscopy
Icarus, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 November 2004
Sang J.Kim, T.R. Geballe, Keith S.Noll and Regis Courtin
The abstract of the paper is available at the following address: http://www.sciencedirect.com
- Direct imaging of Titan's extended haze layer from HST observations
Geophysical Research Letters, vol.31, L17S09, doi: 10.1029 / 2004GL020135, 2004
E.F.Young, R.Puetter, A.Yahil
Published 15 September 2004
The abstract of the paper is available on the following web page: www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2004/2004GL020135.shtml
- Reactions of nitriles in ices relevant to Titan, comets, and the interstellar medium: formation of cyanate ion, ketenimines, and isonitriles
R.L. Hudson and M.H. Moore
Icarus, In Press, Corrected Proof, available online 14 August 2004
The abstract of the paper is available on: http://www.sciencedirect.com
- Fluorescence spectra of Titan tholins: in-situ detection of astrobiologically interesting areas on Titan's surface
Icarus, Volume 171, Issue 2, October 2004, available online 24 June 2004
Robert Hodyss, Gene Mc Donald, Niladri Sarker, Mark A Smith, Patricia M. Beauchamp and J.L. Beauchamp
The abstract of the paper is available on: http://www.sciencedirect.com
- Surface Processes on Titan: A review of the literature / Cryovolcanism on icy satellites: Application to Titan.
By Andrew Dominic Fortes, Department of Geological Sciences, University College London, August 1st 1997.
Click on the following link to access this report: http://www.es.ucl.ac.uk/research/planetaryweb/undergraduate/dom/weathering_titan/chap7.htm
- The greenhouse and antigreenhouse effects on Titan
By McKay CP, Pollack JB, Courtin R, Science 1991 September 6; 253: 1118-21.
The abstract of the study is available on the following web address: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=npg&cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11538492&dopt=Abstract
- Dr Patrice Coll: he's part of a research team located in Paris studying the different phases of Titan's atmosphere. He devoted his thesis to the chemistry of Titan ( 1997 )
click here to enter his web page
- Jonathan I Lunine: he's a professor of Planetary Science and of Physics in the USA. He studied the evolution of Titan's atmosphere and surface processes. He also studied organic chemistry and the way it evolved towards the origin of life.
click here to enter his web page
- Ralph D Lorenz: Lunar And Planetary Laboratory, Department of Planetary Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.The address of his home page is: http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rlorenz/index.html