Astrochemistry: Complex organic matter in Titan's aerosols? (Reply)
Guy Israël
(1)
,
Cyril Szopa
(1)
,
François Raulin
(2)
,
Michel Cabane
(1)
,
H. B. Niemann
(3)
,
S. K. Atreya
(4)
,
S. J. Bauer
(5)
,
Jean-Francis Brun
(1)
,
Eric Chassefière
(1)
,
Patrice Coll
(2)
,
E. Condé
(6)
,
David Coscia
(2)
,
Alain Hauchecorne
(1)
,
P. Millian
(7)
,
M. Nguyen
(2)
,
T. Owen
(8)
,
W. Riedler
(9)
,
R. Samuelson
(10)
,
M. Siguier
(7)
,
M. Steller
(9)
,
R. Sternberg
(2)
,
C. Vidal-Madjar
(11)
1
SA -
Service d'aéronomie
2 LISA (UMR_7583) - Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques
3 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
4 AOSS - Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences [Ann Arbor]
5 IGAM - Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics and Meteorology [Graz]
6 CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse]
7 ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab [Toulouse]
8 Institute for Astronomy [Honolulu]
9 IWF - Space Research Institute of Austrian Academy of Sciences
10 Department of Astronomy [College Park]
11 LRP - Laboratoire de recherches sur les polymères
2 LISA (UMR_7583) - Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques
3 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
4 AOSS - Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences [Ann Arbor]
5 IGAM - Institute for Geophysics, Astrophysics and Meteorology [Graz]
6 CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse]
7 ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab [Toulouse]
8 Institute for Astronomy [Honolulu]
9 IWF - Space Research Institute of Austrian Academy of Sciences
10 Department of Astronomy [College Park]
11 LRP - Laboratoire de recherches sur les polymères
Cyril Szopa
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Alain Hauchecorne
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M. Steller
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Résumé
Biemann et al. calls into question our preliminary interpretations of our experimental results. A comparison of laboratory and flight measurements should settle the uncertainties he raises. In addition to evaluating instrumental characteristics such as the 'piston effect', a technique we used for injecting oven-gas content for gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), such studies should enable a wide range of possible compositions for Titan's aerosols to be investigated. Our aerosol collection and pyrolysis (ACP) measurements in Titan's atmosphere can then be revisited.