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Vertical profiles for mean wind, standard deviations of velocity fluctuations, and wave-induced part of the momentum flux over a wavy fluid surface are calculated in the Cartesian coordinates on the basis of recent numerical results by…

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High-resolution spectroscopy provides a unique opportunity to directly probe atmospheric dynamics by resolving Doppler shifts of planetary signal as a function of orbital phases. Using the optical spectrometer Keck Planet Finder (KPF), we…

Jupiter's internal flow structure is still not fully known, but can be now better constrained due to Juno's high-precision measurements. The recently published gravity and magnetic field measurements have led to new information regarding…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Keren Duer , Eli Galanti , Yohai Kaspi

The zonal winds on the surfaces of giant planets vary with latitude. Jupiter and Saturn, for example, have several bands of alternating eastward (prograde) and westward (retrograde) jets relative to the angular velocity of their global…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gary A. Glatzmaier , Martha Evonuk , Tamara M. Rogers

Atmospheric escape of close-in exoplanets can be driven by high energy radiation from the host star. The planetary outflows interacting with the stellar wind may generate observable transit signals that depend on the strength of the stellar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Hiroto Mitani , Riouhei Nakatani , Naoki Yoshida

Neptune's tropospheric winds are among the most intense in the Solar System, but the dynamical mechanisms that produce them remain uncertain. Measuring wind speeds at different pressure levels may help understand the atmospheric dynamics of…

Winds of cool dwarfs are difficult to observe, with only a few M dwarfs presenting observationally-derived mass-loss rates (Mdot), which span several orders of magnitude. Close-in exoplanets are conveniently positioned in the inner regions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-20 A. A. Vidotto , V. Bourrier

We present a three dimensional hot Jupiter model, extending from 200 bar to 1 mbar, using the Intermediate General Circulation Model from the University of Reading. Our horizontal spectral resolution is T31 (equivalent to a grid of 48x96),…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Emily Rauscher , Kristen Menou

Observations of brown dwarfs and relatively isolated young extrasolar giant planets have provided unprecedented details to probe atmospheric dynamics in a new regime. Questions about mechanisms governing global circulation remain to be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 Xianyu Tan

At the cloud top level of Venus (65-70 km altitude) the atmosphere rotates 60 times faster than the underlying surface, a phenomenon known as superrotation. Whereas on Venus's dayside the cloud top motions are well determined and Venus…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-13 J. Peralta , R. Hueso , A. Sánchez-Lavega , Y. J. Lee , A. García-Muñoz , T. Kouyama , H. Sagawa , T. M. Sato , G. Piccioni , S. Tellmann , T. Imamura , T. Satoh

Jupiter's poles feature striking polygons of cyclones that drift westward over time, a motion governed by beta-drift (vortex motion caused by the latitudinal variation of the Coriolis force). This study investigates how beta-drift and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Nimrod Gavriel , Yohai Kaspi

Based on models derived from Earth's magnetotail, other planets with dipole magnetic fields, including Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn, were expected to possess similar magnetotail configurations. In this traditional picture, the majority of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Yan Xu , Zhonghua Yao , Frederic Allegrini , Shengyi Ye , Binzheng Zhang , Zhili Zeng , Enhao Feng , Jiuwen Sun , William Dunn , Scott Bolton

We study the spatial and temporal variability in Jupiter's atmosphere by comparing longitude-resolved brightness temperature maps from the Very Large Array (VLA) radio observatory and NASA's Juno spacecraft Microwave Radiometer (MWR) taken…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-31 Joanna Hardesty , Chris Moeckel , Imke de Pater

In hot and ultra-hot Jupiters, stellar irradiation is a primary driver of atmospheric circulation and the wave structures that sustain it. We aim to investigate how variations in radiative and dynamical timescales influence global flow…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 C. Akın , K. Heng , J. M. Mendonça , R. Deitrick , L. Gkouvelis

We present measurements of the wind speeds at the nightside lower clouds of Venus from observations by JAXA's mission Akatsuki during 2016, complemented with new wind measurements from ground-based observations acquired with TNG/NICS in…

We show that the orbits of exoplanets of the "hot Jupiter" type, as a rule, are located close to the Alf\'{v}en point of the stellar wind of the parent star. At this, many hot Jupiters can be located in the sub-Alf\'{v}en zone in which the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 A. G. Zhilkin , D. V. Bisikalo

High spectral resolution observations of Venus were obtained with the TEXES instrument at NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility. These observations focus on a CO$_2$ absorption feature at 791.4 cm$^{-1}$ as the shape of this absorption feature…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-26 Rohini S Giles , Thomas K Greathouse , Patrick G J Irwin , Thérèse Encrenaz , Amanda Brecht

We measure wind velocities on opposite sides of the hot Jupiter HD$\,$189733b by modeling sodium absorption in high-resolution HARPS transmission spectra. Our model implicitly accounts for the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect, which we show can…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-26 Tom Louden , Peter J. Wheatley

The physical shape of a giant planet can reveal important information about its centrifugal potential, and therefore, its rotation. In this paper I investigate the response of Jupiter's shape to differential rotation on cylinders of various…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Ravit Helled

The Juno spacecraft has acquired exceptionally precise data on Jupiter's gravity field, offering invaluable insights into Jupiter's tidal response, interior structure, and dynamics, establishing crucial constraints. We develop a new model…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Hachem Dhouib , Clément Baruteau , Stéphane Mathis , Florian Debras , Aurélie Astoul , Michel Rieutord
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