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Surface-catalyzed recombination into excited electronic, vibrational, rotational, and kinetic energy states: A reviewLaboratory experiments in which recombined CO, CO2, D2O, OH, N2, H2, and O2 molecules desorb from surfaces in excited internal and translational states are briefly reviewed. Unequilibrated distributions predominate from the principally catalytic metal substrates so far investigated. Mean kinetic energies have been observed up to approx. 3x, and in some cases less than, wall-thermal; the velocity distributions generally vary with emission angle, with non-Lambertian particle fluxes. The excitation state populations are found to depend on surface impurities, in an as yet unexplained way.
Document ID
19860003785
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Kofsky, I. L.
(Photometrics, Inc. Woburn, MA, United States)
Barrett, J. L.
(Photometrics, Inc. Woburn, MA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 12, 2013
Publication Date
September 1, 1985
Publication Information
Publication: NASA. Marshall Space Flight Center 2d Workshop on Spacecraft Glow
Subject Category
Space Sciences (General)
Accession Number
86N13253
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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