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Jupiter's deep abundances help to constrain the formation history of the planet and the environment of the protoplanetary nebula. Juno recently measured Jupiter's deep oxygen abundance near the equator to be 2.2$_{-2.1}^{+3.9}$ times the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 Thibault Cavalié , Jonathan Lunine , Olivier Mousis

We have obtained high-resolution spectra of Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) between 4.6 and 5.4 microns using telescopes on Mauna Kea in order to derive gas abundances and to constrain its cloud structure between 0.5 and 5~bars. We used line…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Gordon L. Bjoraker , Michael H. Wong , Imke de Pater , Tilak Hewagama , Mate Adamkovics , Glenn S. Orton

We present the first X-ray observation of Jupiter by XMM-Newton. Images taken with the EPIC cameras show prominent emission, essentially all confined to the 0.2-2.0 keV band, from the planet's auroral spots; their spectra can be modelled…

$Context.$ On October 31, 2009, the Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) on board the Herschel Space Observatory observed far-infrared spectra of Jupiter between 50 and 220$\,\mu$m as part of the program "Water and Related…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-05 Cyril Gapp , Miriam Rengel , Paul Hartogh , Hideo Sagawa , Helmut Feuchtgruber , Emmanuel Lellouch , Geronimo L. Villanueva

We present a new set of measurements obtained with the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) of Jupiter's microwave thermal emission near the 1.3 cm ammonia (NH$_{3}$) absorption band. We use these observations to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Ramsey L. Karim , David DeBoer , Imke de Pater , Garrett K. Keating

Hot Jupiters receive intense irradiation from their stellar hosts. The resulting extreme environments in their atmospheres allow us to study the conditions that drive planetary atmospheric dynamics, e.g., global-scale winds. General…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Anusha Pai Asnodkar , Ji Wang , Jason D. Eastman , P. Wilson Cauley , B. Scott Gaudi , Ilya Ilyin , Klaus Strassmeier

Oxygen is the most common element after hydrogen and helium in Jupiter's atmosphere, and may have been the primary condensable (as water ice) in the protoplanetary disk. Prior to the Juno mission, in situ measurements of Jupiter's water…

Though the global atmospheres of hot Jupiters have been extensively studied using phase curve observations, the level of time variability in these data is not well constrained. To investigate possible time variability in a planetary phase…

We probe the structure and composition of the atmospheres of 5 hot Jupiter exoplanets using the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument. We use the G141 grism (1.1-1.7 $\mu$m) to study TrES-2b, TrES-4b, and CoRoT-1b in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Sukrit Ranjan , David Charbonneau , Jean-Michel Désert , Nikku Madhusudhan , Drake Deming , Ashlee Wilkins , Avi M. Mandell

For solar-system objects, ultraviolet spectroscopy has been critical in identifying sources for stratospheric heating and measuring the abundances of a variety of hydrocarbon and sulfur-bearing species, produced via photochemical…

Turbulence is ubiquitous in Solar System planetary atmospheres. In hot Jupiter atmospheres, the combination of moderately slow rotation and thick pressure scale height may result in dynamical weather structures with unusually large,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Emily Rauscher , Kristen Menou , James Y-K. Cho , Sara Seager , Brad Hansen

Results from Juno's microwave radiometer indicate non-uniform mixing of ammonia vapor in Jupiter's atmosphere down to tens of bars, far beneath the cloud level. Helioseismic observations suggest solar convection may require narrow,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 S. Markham , T. Guillot , C. Li

Jupiter's atmosphere features a variety of clouds that are formed from the interplay of chemistry and atmospheric dynamics, from the deep red color of the Great Red Spot to the high altitude white ammonia clouds present in the zones (bright…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-08 Ramanakumar Sankar , Csaba Palotai

At wavelengths between 0.15 and 0.19 $\mu$m, the far-ultraviolet spectrum of Jupiter is dominated by the scattered solar spectrum, attenuated by molecular absorptions primarily by acetylene and ethane, and to a lesser extent ammonia and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Henrik Melin , Leigh N. Fletcher , Pat G. J. Irwin , Scott G Edgington

We assess broadband color filters for the two fast cameras on the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations (PLATO) of stars space mission with respect to exoplanetary atmospheric characterization. We focus on Ultra Hot Jupiters and Hot Jupiters…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 John Lee Grenfell , Mareike Godolt , Juan Cabrera , Ludmila Carone , Antonio Garcia Munoz , Daniel Kitzmann , Alexis Smith , Heike Rauer

Near-Infrared spectra of Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt (SEB) with AAT/IRIS2 in H and K bands at a resolving power of R~2400 have been obtained. By creating line-by-line radiative transfer models with the latest improved spectral line data…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-26 Behrooz Karamiqucham , Jeremy A. Bailey , Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer , Daniel V. Cotton

Aerosols is an old topic in the young field of exoplanet atmospheres. Understanding what they are, how they form, and where they go has long provided a fertile playground for theorists. For observers, however, aerosols have been a…

Hot Jupiters (HJs), especially the Ultra-Hot Jupiters (UHJs), are ideal targets for robust atmospheric characterization, thanks to their high equilibrium temperatures and large atmospheric scale heights, which result from their proximity to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Zewen Jiang , Wei Wang , Shumei Jia , Yaqing Shi , Fei Yan , Li Zhou , Qianyi Zou , Xiang Ma , Yue Huang

Water and ammonia vapors are known to be the major sources of spectral absorption at pressure levels observed by the microwave radiometer (MWR) on Juno. However, the brightness temperatures and limb darkening observed by the MWR at its…