P31C:
Titan's Enigmatic Atmosphere and Ionosphere Posters

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Primary Convener:  Joseph H Westlake, JHUAPL, Laurel, MD, United States
Co-Convener:  Sarah M Horst, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Science, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
The global precipitation of magnetospheric electrons into Titan’s upper atmosphere
Darci S Snowden, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA, United States and Roger V Yelle, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Global Modeling of the Seasonal and Solar Cycle Trends in Titan’s Methane
Jared Micheal Bell1, Joseph H Westlake2, Jack H Waite Jr3 and Rebecca Perryman3, (1)National Institute of Aerospace, Yorktown, VA, United States, (2)JHUAPL, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, Space Sciences and Engineering, San Antonio, TX, United States
 
Cooked Volatiles and the Origin of Titan’s Atmosphere: Evidence of Deep Hydrothermal Activity?
Christopher R Glein, Carnegie Institution for Science, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
 
Ion Cyclotron Waves at Titan
Christopher T Russell, Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Hanying Wei, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Misa Cowee, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Fritz M Neubauer, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany and Michele Karen Dougherty, Imperial College London, Blackett Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
 
Characterization of the Chemical Composition of TITAN’S Aerosols Analogues with a Systematic Pyrolysis-GCMS Analysis Approach
Marietta Morisson1, Cyril Szopa2, Nathalie Carrasco3, Arnaud Buch1 and Thomas Gautier4, (1)LGPM Laboratoire Génie des Procédés et les Matériaux, Châtenay-Malabry Cedex, France, (2)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (3)Univ Versailles St Quentin, Guyancourt, France, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Titan’s Topside Ionospheric Composition: Cassini Plasma Spectrometer Ion Mass spectrometer Measurements
Edward C Sittler Jr1, Richard E Hartle1, Ashraf Ali2, John F Cooper3, Alexander S Lipatov4, David G Simpson5, Menelaos Sarantos4 and Dennis J Chornay2, (1)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 670, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
The THS Experiment: Ex Situ Analyses of Titan’s Aerosol Analogs Produced at Low Temperature (200K)
Ella M Sciamma-O'Brien1,2, Kathleen T Upton3, Jesse L Beauchamp3 and Farid Salama1, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Moffett Field, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Synthesis of N-substituted Cyclic Hydrocarbons, such as Pyrimidine, in The Ionosphere of Titan
Partha P Bera1, Roberto Peverati2, Martin Head-Gordon2 and Timothy J Lee3, (1)NASA - Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Ctr, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
Energy and Momentum Transfer from Saturn's Magnetosphere to Titan's Atmosphere
Stephen A Ledvina, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Stephen H Brecht, Bay Area Research Corp, Orinda, CA, United States and Jared Micheal Bell, National Institute of Aerospace, Yorktown, VA, United States
 
Probing Titan’s Atmosphere with ALMA
Joseph Serigano IV1, Conor A Nixon1, Martin A Cordiner1, Steven B Charnley1, Nicholas A Teanby2, Maureen Palmer3, Stefanie Milam1, Geronimo L Villanueva1, Lucas Paganini1, Michael J Mumma4, Richard K Achterberg1, Yi-Jehng Kuan5 and Zbigniew Kisiel6, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Bristol, School of Earth Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (3)St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, United States, (4)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, (6)Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, Warsaw, Poland
 
An Empirical Approach to Modeling Ion Production Rates in Titan’s Nightside Ionosphere
Matthew S Richard1,2, Thomas Cravens2, Calvin Wylie2, Daniel Webb2, Quentin Chediak2, Kathleen Mandt3, Jack H Waite Jr4, Abigail M Rymer5, Cesar Bertucci6 and Anne Wellbrock7, (1)Benedictine College, Physics and Astronomy, Atchison, KS, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, Space Sciences and Engineering, San Antonio, TX, United States, (5)Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (7)University College London, London, United Kingdom
 
Influence of orbital precession on the polar methane accumulation on Titan
Junjun Liu, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Tapio Schneider, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Temperature effect on the far infrared absorption features of aromatic-based Titan aerosol analogs
Thomas Gautier1,2, Melissa G Trainer1, Mark J Loeffler1, Joshua Sebree3 and Carrie M Anderson1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc., NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, United States
 
Abundances of C3Hx Hydrocarbons in Titan’s Stratosphere from Cassini CIRS
Conor A Nixon1, Donald E Jennings1, Bruno Bezard2, Sandrine Vinatier2, Nicholas A Teanby3, Keeyoon Sung4, Todd M Ansty5, Patrick GJ Irwin6, Nicolas Gorius7, Valeria Cottini8, Athena Coustenis2 and F Michael Flasar9, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Paris Observatory Meudon, Meudon, France, (3)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (6)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (7)Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, United States, (8)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
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