5 papers
Deuterated water and the formation of the satellites of Uranus
Michael E. Brown, Matthew Belyakov, Swaroop Chandra +5
The satellites of Uranus orbit in a low-eccentricity, equatorial plane that is tilted by 98 degrees relative to the solar system -- a geometry that mirrors Uranus's extreme axial t…
An unidentified absorption feature at 5.11 m on the surface of Titan and Pluto from JWST spectroscopy
B. Bézard, E. Lellouch, M. Camarca +14
Titan possesses a thick N-CH atmosphere that makes it difficult to study its surface spectroscopically. The chemical composition of the solid surface of Titan thus remains…
Deuterated water ice on the satellites of Saturn
Michael E. Brown, Samantha K. Trumbo, M. Ryleigh Davis +1
The deuterium to hydrogen ratio in water ice in a planetary body carries important information on the history of water processing and delivery in the protostellar nebula. For a gia…
A JWST study of CO on the satellites of Saturn
Michael E. Brown, Samantha K. Trumbo, Matthew Belyakov +2
Solid state CO has been detected throughout the outer solar system, even at temperatures where crystalline CO is unstable, requiring that the CO be trapped in a separat…
Spectroscopic Mapping of Callisto with HST/STIS and Implications for its Surface Composition
M. Ryleigh Davis, Samantha K. Trumbo, Michael E. Brown +1
We present global, spatially resolved ultraviolet-visible spectra of Callisto obtained with HST/STIS and explore possible compositions of Callisto's surface material. We map the st…