Compact two-step laser time-of-flight mass spectrometer for in situ analyses of aromatic organics on planetary missions

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 2786-2790

  Getty, Stephanie A ^a   Brinckerhoff, William B ^a   Cornish, Timothy ^b   Ecelberger, Scott ^b   Floyd, Melissa ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b C and E Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIZATION; DESORPTION; IONIZATION OF GASES; IONS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC LASERS;

AROMATIC ORGANICS; DESORPTION IONIZATION; IN-SITU ANALYSIS; LASER DESORPTION; LASER'S ENERGY; MASS RESOLUTION; MOLECULAR IONS; POST-IONIZATION; TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETERS; TUNABLES;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

EID: 84868382121     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6393     Document Type: Article

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