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Current understanding of the ammonia distribution in Jupiter's atmosphere is provided by observations from major ground-based facilities and spacecraft, and analyzed with sophisticated retrieval models that recover high fidelity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-26 Steven M Hill , Patrick G. J. Irwin , Charlotte Alexander , John H. Rogers

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

Jupiter's tropospheric composition is studied using high resolution spatially-resolved 5-micron observation from the CRIRES instrument at the Very Large Telescope. The high resolving power (R=96,000) allows us to spectrally resolve the line…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Rohini S. Giles , Leigh N. Fletcher , Patrick G. J. Irwin

We report on results of an observing campaign to support the Juno mission. At the beginning of 2016, using TEXES (Texas Echelon cross-dispersed Echelle Spectrograph), mounted on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF), we obtained data…

Towering storms, swirling clouds, and vortices are the cloud tops manifestation of complex weather systems shaping the atmosphere of Jupiter. We use observations from Juno's MicroWave Radiometer (MWR), the Very Large Array (VLA) and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Chris Moeckel , Imke de Pater , Bob Sault , Bryan Butler

We observed Jupiter four times over a full rotation (10 hrs) with the upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) between December 2013 and December 2014. Preliminary results at 4-17 GHz were presented in de Pater et al. (2016); in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-21 I. de Pater , R. J. Sault , M. H. Wong , L. N. Fletcher , D. DeBoer , B. Butler

The intriguing circumpolar cyclone pattern at Jupiter's poles raises fundamental questions about how these systems are organized vertically and, further, how the planet's internal heat shapes and sustains them in the absence of solar…

The Cassini flyby of Jupiter in 2000 provided spatially resolved spectra of Jupiter's atmosphere using the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS). These spectra contain a strong absorption at wavelengths from about 2.9 $\mu$m to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-16 Lawrence Sromovsky , Patrick Fry

Observations of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by the Juno spacecraft have revealed several puzzling facts: The concentration of ammonia is variable down to pressures of tens of bars, and is strongly dependent on latitude. While most latitudes…

We present multi-wavelength measurements of the thermal, chemical, and cloud contrasts associated with the visibly dark formations (also known as 5-$\mu$m hot spots) and intervening bright plumes on the boundary between Jupiter's Equatorial…

Global maps of Jupiter's atmospheric temperatures, gaseous composition and aerosol opacity are derived from a programme of 5-20 $\mu$m mid-infrared spectroscopic observations using the Texas Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrograph (TEXES) on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 L. N. Fletcher , T. K. Greathouse , G. S. Orton , J. A. Sinclair , R. S. Giles , P. G. J. Irwin , T. Encrenaz

We present a technique for creating a longitude-resolved image of Jupiter's thermal radio emission. The technique has been applied to VLA data taken on 25 January 1996 at a wavelength of 2 cm. A comparison with infrared data shows a good…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. J. Sault , C. Engel , Imke de Pater

We observed Jupiter at wavelengths near 2 cm with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in February 2015. These frequencies are mostly sensitive to variations in ammonia abundance and probe between ~0.5-2.0 bars of pressure in Jupiter's…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-23 Richard Cosentino , Bryan Butler , Bob Sault , Raul Morales-Juberias , Amy Simon , Imke de Pater

We present the results of the Infrared Space Observatory Short Wavelength Spectrometer (ISO-SWS) observations of Jupiter related to ammonia. We focus on two spectral regions; the first one (the 10-micron region), probes atmospheric levels…

$Context.$ 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

An analysis of currently available ammonia (NH$_3$) visible-to-near-infrared gas absorption data was recently undertaken by Irwin et al. (Icarus, 302 (2018) 426) to help interpret Very Large Telescope (VLT) MUSE observations of Jupiter from…

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

Technique: We present a method to determine the pressure at which significant cloud opacity is present between 2 and 6 bars on Jupiter. We use: a) the strength of a Fraunhofer absorption line in a zone to determine the ratio of reflected…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 G. L. Bjoraker , M. H. Wong , I. de Pater , M. Ádámkovics

Inferences of molecular compositions of exoplanetary atmospheres have generally focused on C, H, and O-bearing molecules. Recently, additional absorption in HST WFC3 transmission spectra around 1.55$\mu$m has been attributed to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-20 Ryan J. MacDonald , Nikku Madhusudhan

We report observations of the high (R$\sim$18000) and medium (R$\sim$5900) resolution, near-infrared spectra of Jupiter's polar regions with the GNIRS instrument at the Gemini North telescope. The observations correspond to the area of main…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 L. Kedziora-Chudczer , D. V. Cotton , D. J. Kedziora , J. Bailey
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