Photothermal Spectroscopy for Planetary Sciences: A Characterization of Planetary Materials in the Mid-IR
Understanding of the formation and evolution of the Solar System requires understanding key and common materials found on and in planetary bodies.
Mineral mixing and its implications on planetary body formation is a topic of high interest to the planetary science community. Previous work establishes a case for the use of Optical PhotoThermal InfraRed (O-PTIR) in planetary science and introduces and demonstrates the technique’s capability to study planetary materials.
In this paper, we performed a measurement campaign on granular materials relevant to planetary science, such as minerals found in lunar and martian soils. These laboratory measurements serve to start a database of O-PTIR measurements. We also present FTIR absorption measurements of the materials we observed in O-PTIR for comparison purposes.
We find that the O-PTIR technique suffers from granular orientation effects similar to other IR techniques, but in most cases, is is directly comparable to commonly used absorption spectroscopy techniques.
We conclude that O-PTIR would be an excellent tool for the purpose of planetary material identification during in-situ investigations on regolith and bedrock surfaces.
Christopher Tyler Cox, Jakob Haynes, Christopher Duffey, Christopher Bennett, Julie Brisset
Comments: This paper follows, “Photothermal Spectroscopy for Planetary Sciences: Mid-IR Absorption Made Easy,” (arXiv:2409.11626) and is part 2 of a series. This work catalogues O-PTIR Mid-IR measurements of various planetary materials. This is a pre-print
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Cite as: arXiv:2411.13759 [astro-ph.EP] (or arXiv:2411.13759v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2411.13759
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From: Christopher Cox
[v1] Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:05:39 UTC (19,571 KB)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13759
Astrobiology, Astrochemistry, Astrogeology,
