Cassini CIRS observations of Titan 2004-2017 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Nixon C.A.
  2. Ansty T.M.
  3. Lombardo N.A.
  4. Bjoraker G.L.
  5. Achterberg R.K.,Annex A.M.
  6. Rice M.
  7. Romani P.N.
  8. Jennings D.E.
  9. Samuelson R.E.,Anderson C.M.
  10. Coustenis A.
  11. Bezard B.
  12. Vinatier S.
  13. Lellouch E.,Courtin R.
  14. Teanby N.A.
  15. Cottini V.
  16. Flasar F.M.
  17. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

From 2004 to 2017, the Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn, completing 127 close flybys of its largest moon, Titan. Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS), one of 12 instruments carried on board, profiled Titan in the thermal infrared (7-1000{mu}m) throughout the entire 13yr mission. CIRS observed on both targeted encounters (flybys) and more distant opportunities, collecting 8.4 million spectra from 837 individual Titan observations over 3633hr. Observations of multiple types were made throughout the mission, building up a vast mosaic picture of Titan's atmospheric state across spatial and temporal domains. This paper provides a guide to these observations, describing each type and chronicling its occurrences and global-seasonal coverage. The purpose is to provide a resource for future users of the CIRS data set, as well as those seeking to put existing CIRS publications into the overall context of the mission, and to facilitate future intercomparison of CIRS results with those of other Cassini instruments and ground-based observations.

Keywords
  1. Solar system planets
  2. Infrared astronomy
  3. Spectroscopy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019ApJS..244...14N
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/244/14
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/244/14
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22440014

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History

2020-03-16T13:28:25Z
Resource record created
2020-03-16T13:28:25Z
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