Optical constants of Pluto tholins

Lora Jovanovic (1) , Thomas Gautier (1) , Laurent Broch (2) , Marie Fayolle (3, 4) , Eric Quirico (4) , Tanguy Bertrand (5) , Luc Johann (2) , Aotmane En Naciri (2) , Nathalie Carrasco (6, 1)

1 PLANETO - LATMOS
2 LCP-A2MC - Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique - Approche Multi-échelle des Milieux Complexes
3 TU Delft - Delft University of Technology
4 IPAG - Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble
5 ARC - NASA Ames Research Center
6 IUF - Institut Universitaire de France

As Pluto tholins are chemically different from Titan’s [11], we propose a new set of optical constants to update Pluto atmospheric and surface models that were hitherto based on the optical constants of Titan tholins.

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]

Lora Jovanovic, Thomas Gautier, Laurent Broch, Marie Fayolle, Eric Quirico, et al.. Optical constants of Pluto tholins. Europlanet Science Congress 2020, Sep 2020, Virtual Meeting, Germany. pp.EPSC2020-707. ⟨insu-02925183⟩