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

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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.

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- A tidal explanation for the Titan haze layers

Icarus, Volume 183, Issue 2, Pages 471-478 ( August 2006 )

Richard L.Walterscheid and Gerard Schubert

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

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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

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- Modelling of possible mud volcanism on Titan

Icarus, Volume 182, Issue 2, Pages 550-558 ( June 2006 )

A.Dominic Fortes and Peter M.Grindrod

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- Gravitational tidal waves in Titan's upper atmosphere

Icarus, Volume 182, Issue 1, Pages 251-258 ( May 2006 )

Darrell F. Strobel

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstact of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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.

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the paper, g to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the study, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the study, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the study, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the study, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the study, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the study, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the study, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the study, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the study, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the study, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the study, go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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

To get the abstract of the paper, go to: http://icarus.cornell.edu or http://www.sciencedirect.com

 

 

- 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 )

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click here to get his thesis

 

 

- 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

 

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