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A stringent upper limit of the PH3 abundance at the cloud top of Venus

T. Encrenaz, T. K. Greathouse, E. Marcq et al., 2020. Astronomy & Astrophysics 643, L5.

TEXES spectra from the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, March 2015, near 950 cm⁻¹: no phosphine feature, a 3-sigma disk-integrated upper limit of 5 ppbv, four times below the millimetre value.

MYS0CQY1PJR4XT7 · mystery · click to copyMPhosphine in the clouds of VenusArticleCopy of IRTF/TEXES infrared spectra of Venus, March 2015doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039559Checked against the original0

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An infrared upper limit at and above the cloud tops.

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Encrenaz, T., Greathouse, T. K., Marcq, E., Widemann, T., Bézard, B., & et al. (2020). A stringent upper limit of the PH3 abundance at the cloud top of Venus. Astronomy & Astrophysics 643, L5. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202039559
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