Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1775665 | Icarus | 2007 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
A revised ab initio calculation of the H2-H2 collision-induced absorption results in significant differences compared with the work of J. Borysow et al. [Borysow, J., Trafton, L., Frommhold, L., Birnbaum, G., 1985. Astrophys. J. 296, 644-654] for wavenumbers greater than 600 cmâ1 and temperatures below 120 K. The revision has significant influence on the spectra of Uranus and Neptune, and essentially removes the need for models with “super-solar” helium abundances or stratospheric hazes to explain the spectrum of Uranus.
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Authors
Glenn S. Orton, Magnus Gustafsson, Martin Burgdorf, Victoria Meadows,