Formation of radical species in photolyzed CH4:N2 ices

Icarus

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 748-753

  Hodyss, Robert ^a,b   Howard, Heather R ^a   Johnson, Paul V ^a,b   Goguen, Jay D ^a   Kanik, Isik ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ices; Ices, IR spectroscopy; Ices, UV spectroscopy; Photochemistry; Pluto, Surface; Satellites, Surfaces; Triton

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051471393     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.05.023     Document Type: Article

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