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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 4.
Published in final edited form as: Icarus. 2015 Aug 14;261:149–168. doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2015.08.012

Figure 7:

Figure 7:

Retrievals of temperatures and hydrocarbon distributions as a function of longitude through the beacon core on May 4, 2011. Spectra were averaged over the 36 – 43°N latitude range, and model-predicted mixing-ratio profiles from our nominal hot beacon-core photochemical model were uniformly scaled to reproduce the emission observed by CIRS. In all cases, the required scaling factors still exceed unity within the beacon, implying that the distributions must be affected by processes in addition to photochemistry.