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Uranus' stratospheric HCl upper limit from Herschel/SPIRE

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2020-11-04 v1

Abstract

Herschel/SPIRE observations of Uranus are used to search for stratospheric hydrogen chloride (HCl) emission at 41.74 cm1^{-1}. HCl was not detected and instead 3σ\sigma upper limits were determined; <<6.2 ppb (<<2.0×\times1014^{14} molecules/cm2^{2}) for a 0.1 mbar step profile and <<0.40 ppb (<<1.2×\times1014^{14} molecules/cm2^{2}) for a 1 mbar step profile. HCl is expected to have an external source and these upper limits are consistent with abundances of other external species (CO, H2_2O, CO2_2) and a solar composition source.

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@article{arxiv.2011.01910,
  title  = {Uranus' stratospheric HCl upper limit from Herschel/SPIRE},
  author = {Nicholas A. Teanby and Patrick G. J. Irwin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.01910},
  year   = {2020}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in RNAAS 2020

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