U.S.-France Cooperative Research: The Composition and Structure of Planetary Atmospheres

美法合作研究：行星大气的组成和结构

• 批准号: 8715243
• 负责人: Tobias Owen
• 金额: $ 1.41万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-01-15 至 1990-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8715243&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; France; Cooperative; Research; Composition

This award will support collaborative research between Prof. Tobias Owen, State University of New York at Stony Brook, and a group of French astronomers, led by Dr. Therese Encrenaz, at the Meudon Observatory, CNRS, in France. The objective of this research is to continue a joint study of planetary atmospheres, with particular emphasis on unresolved questions concerning the atmospheres of Venus and Neptune; the historical presence of water on Mars; and the composition of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. In this project, new infrared spectra of the atmospheres of Venus, Jupiter, and Neptune will be obtained and analyzed. In addition, Voyager spacecraft data from Mars will be analyzed. Astronomers at the Meudon Observatory are world leaders in the field of infrared spectroscopy. Although many of the high-resolution spectroscopic measurements are made at the Canada-France-US Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the Fourier Transform Spectrometer used there was developed by one of the French collaborators. The collaboration thus contributes greatly to the acquisition of the precise experimental data required for this project. The joint experience is also expected to be useful to both sides in the development of future instruments suitable for infrared spectroscopy, such as the Hubble Space Telescope.

该奖项将支持纽约州立大学石溪分校的 Tobias Owen 教授与法国国家科学研究中心 Meudon 天文台的 Therese Encrenaz 博士领导的一组法国天文学家之间的合作研究。 这项研究的目的是继续对行星大气层进行联合研究，特别强调有关金星和海王星大气层的未解决问题；火星上历史上存在水；以及木星上大红斑的构成。 在该项目中，将获得并分析金星、木星和海王星大气层的新红外光谱。 此外，来自火星的航行者号航天器数据也将被分析。 默东天文台的天文学家是红外光谱领域的世界领先者。 尽管许多高分辨率光谱测量是在夏威夷莫纳克亚山的加拿大-法国-美国望远镜进行的，但那里使用的傅立叶变换光谱仪是由一位法国合作者开发的。 因此，此次合作极大地有助于获取该项目所需的精确实验数据。 预计联合经验还将对双方开发适用于红外光谱的未来仪器（例如哈勃太空望远镜）有用。