Elemental abundances and minimum mass of heavy elements in the envelope of HD 189733b (2009)
Mousis, Olivier, Lunine, Jonathan I., Tinetti, Giovanna, Griffith, Caitlin A., Showman, Adam P., Alibert, Yann, ...
Oxygen (O) and carbon (C) have been inferred recently to be subsolar in abundance from spectra of the atmosphere of the transiting hot Jupiter HD 189733b. Yet, the mass and radius of the planet...
A primordial origin for the atmospheric methane of Saturn's moon Titan (2009)
Mousis, Olivier, Lunine, Jonathan I., Pasek, Matthew, Cordier, Daniel, Waite Jr., J. Hunter, Mandt, Kathleen E., ...
The origin of Titan's atmospheric methane is a key issue for understanding the origin of the Saturnian satellite system. It has been proposed that serpentinization reactions in Titan's interior could...
Determination of the minimum masses of heavy elements in the envelopes of Jupiter and Saturn (2008)
Mousis, Olivier, Marboeuf, Ulysse, Lunine, Jonathan I., Alibert, Yann, Fletcher, Leigh N., Orton, Glenn S., ...
We calculate the minimum mass of heavy elements required in the envelopes of Jupiter and Saturn to match the observed oversolar abundances of volatiles. Because the clathration efficiency remains...
Variability of the methane trapping in martian subsurface clathrate hydrates (2008)
Thomas, Caroline, Mousis, Olivier, Picaud, Sylvain, Ballenegger, Vincent
Recent observations have evidenced traces of methane CH4 heterogeneously distributed in the martian atmosphere. However, because the lifetime of CH4 in the atmosphere of Mars is estimated to be...
Mousis, Olivier, Lunine, Jonathan I., Thomas, Caroline, Pasek, Matthew, Marboeuf, Ulysse, Alibert, Yann, ...
We describe a scenario of Titan's formation matching the constraints imposed by its current atmospheric composition. Assuming that the abundances of all elements, including oxygen, are solar in the...
Expectations for the Deep Impact collision from cometary nuclei modelling (2005)
Mousis, Olivier, Marboeuf, Ulysse, Petit, Jean-Marc, Klinger, Jurgen
Using the cometary nucleus model developed by Espinasse et al. (1991), we calculate the thermodynamical evolution of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 over a period of 360 years. Starting from an initially amorphous...
Expectations for the Deep Impact collision from cometary nuclei modelling (2005)
Mousis, Olivier, Marboeuf, Ulysse, Petit, Jean-Marc, Klinger, Jurgen
Using the cometary nucleus model developed by Espinasse et al. (1991), we calculate the thermodynamical evolution of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 over a period of 360 years. Starting from an initially amorphous...
KBO binaries: are they really primordial ? (2003)
Petit, Jean-Marc, Mousis, Olivier
Given the large orbital separation and high satellite-to-primary massratio of all known Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) binaries, it is important toreassess their stability as bound pairs with respect to...
KBO binaries: are they really primordial ? (2003)
Petit, Jean-Marc, Mousis, Olivier
Given the large orbital separation and high satellite-to-primary massratio of all known Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) binaries, it is important toreassess their stability as bound pairs with respect to...