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Piercing through the Haze: Characterizing Titan-like terrestrial exoplanets with JWST
L. C. Mayorga, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Andrew P. Lincowski +5
As we enter a new era of using JWST to characterize exoplanet atmospheres, a top priority is defining observational needs and parameters in the search for life on an exoplanet. Alt…
Triton and Pluto: same origin but separated at birth
Olivier Mousis, Sarah E. Anderson, Adrienn Luspay-Kuti +2
Assessing the origin of Pluto and Triton has profound implications for the bigger picture of Solar System formation and evolution. In such a context, this chapter reviews our curre…
Surface Volatile Composition as Evidence for Hydrothermal Processes Lasting Longer in Triton's Interior than Pluto's
Kathleen Mandt, Adrienn Luspay-Kuti, Olivier Mousis +1
Ocean worlds, or icy bodies in the outer solar system that have or once had subsurface liquid water oceans, are among the most compelling topics of astrobiology. Typically, confirm…
Photochemistry and Haze Formation
Mandt K. E., Luspay-Kuti A., Cheng A. +2
One of the many exciting revelations of the New Horizons flyby of Pluto was the observation of global haze layers at altitudes as high as 200 km in the visible wavelengths. This ha…
TRAPPIST-1h as an Exo-Titan. I. The Role of Assumptions about Atmospheric Parameters in Understanding an Exoplanet Atmosphere
Kathleen Mandt, Adrienn Luspay-Kuti, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger +2
The TRAPPIST-1 system is home to at least seven terrestrial planets and is a target of interest for future James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations. Additionally, these plane…
The Role of Atmospheric Exchange in False-Positive Biosignature Detection
Ryan C. Felton, Sandra T. Bastelberger, Kathleen E. Mandt +3
Saturn's Moon Titan receives volatiles into the top of its atmosphere-including atomic oxygen-sourced from cryovolcanoes on Enceladus. Similar types of atmosphere exchange from one…
Exogenic origin for the volatiles sampled by the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite impact
Kathleen E Mandt, Olivier Mousis, Dana Hurley +4
Returning humans to the Moon presents an unprecedented opportunity to determine the origin of volatiles stored in the permanently shaded regions (PSRs), which trace the history of…
Cold traps of hypervolatiles in the protosolar nebula at the origin of comet C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS)'s peculiar composition
Olivier Mousis, Artyom Aguichine, Alexis Bouquet +4
Recent observations of the long period comet C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS) indicate an unusually high N2/CO abundance ratio, typically larger than 0.05, and at least 2-3 times higher than…
The Science Case for a Titan Flagship-class Orbiter with Probes
Conor A. Nixon, James Abshire, Andrew Ashton +36
We outline a flagship-class mission concept focused on studying Titan as a global system, with particular emphasis on the polar regions. Investigating Titan from the unique standpo…
Origin of molecular oxygen in Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
O. Mousis, T. Ronnet, B. Brugger +13
Molecular oxygen has been detected in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with abundances in the 1-10% range by the ROSINA-DFMS instrument on board the Rosetta spacecraft.…
Uncertainty for calculating transport on Titan: a probabilistic description of bimolecular diffusion parameters
Sylvain Plessis, Damon McDougall, Kathy Mandt +2
Bimolecular diffusion coefficients are important parameters used by atmospheric models to calculate altitude profiles of minor constituents in an atmosphere. Unfortunately, laborat…