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Argon, krypton, xenon, carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus have all been measured enriched by a quasi uniform factor in the 2--4 range, compared to their protosolar values, in the atmosphere of Jupiter. To elucidate the origin of these…

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Jupiter's tropospheric ammonia (NH\textsubscript{3}) abundance is studied using spatially-resolved 5-\textmu m observations from CRIRES, a high resolution spectrometer at the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. The high…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Rohini S. Giles , Leigh N. Fletcher , Patrick G. J. Irwin , Glenn S. Orton , James A. Sinclair

If Jupiter and the Sun both formed directly from the same well-mixed proto-solar nebula, then their atmospheric compositions should be similar. However, direct sampling of Jupiter's troposphere indicates that it is enriched in elements such…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-15 Henry Throop , John Bally

Recent work by Sromovsky et al. (2017, Icarus 291, 232-244) suggested that all red colour in Jupiter's atmosphere could be explained by a single colour-carrying compound, a so-called 'universal chromophore'. We tested this hypothesis on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-13 Ashwin S. Braude , Patrick G. J. Irwin , Glenn S. Orton , Leigh N. Fletcher

Although transit spectroscopy is a powerful method for studying the composition, thermal properties and dynamics of exoplanet atmospheres, only a few transiting terrestrial exoplanets will be close enough to allow significant transit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Franck Selsis , Robin Wordsworth , François Forget

The observation of gaseous giant planets is of high scientific interest. Although they have been the targets of several spacecraft missions, there still remains a need for continuous ground-based observations. As their atmospheres present…

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…

Understanding Jupiter's zonal winds is crucial to unraveling the dynamics of its atmosphere. Over the last decades, multiple data sources and techniques have been used to study zonal winds in Jupiter. Here, we develop a correlation-based…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Shenghan Ma , Yuming Wang , Tao Li , Quanhao Zhang , Jiajia Liu , Ruobing Zheng

Since the 1950s, quasi-periodic oscillations have been studied in the terrestrial equatorial stratosphere. Other planets of the solar system present (or are expected to present) such oscillations, like the Jupiter Equatorial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 B. Benmahi , T. Cavalié , T. K. Greathouse , V. Hue , R. Giles , S. Guerlet , A. Spiga , R. Cosentino

We provide measurements of the absolute reflectivity of Jupiter and Saturn along their central meridians in filters covering a wide range of visible and near-infrared wavelengths (from 0.38 to 1.7 $\mu$m) that are not often presented in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-29 I. Mendikoa , A. Sánchez-Lavega , S. Pérez-Hoyos , R. Hueso , J. F. Rojas , J. López-Santiago

Jupiter was imaged during the Science Demonstration of the MCAO Demonstrator (MAD) at the European Southern Observatory's UT3 Very Large Telescope unit. Io and Europa were used as natural guide stars on either side of Jupiter, separated…

We explore the infrared spectrum of a three-dimensional dynamical model of planet HD209458b as a function of orbital phase. The dynamical model predicts day-side atmospheric pressure-temperature profiles that are much more isothermal at…

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Jupiter's gravity field observed by NASA's Juno spacecraft indicates that the density in the 10--100 GPa region is lower than one would expect from a H/He adiabat with 0.5-5x solar water abundance as has been observationally inferred in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Nadine Nettelmann , Jonathan J. Fortney

Observations of hot-Jupiter atmospheres show large variations in the location of the hot spot and the amplitude of spectral features. Atmospheric flow simulations using the commonly-employed forcing and initialization have generally…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-28 J. Y-K. Cho , J. W. Skinner , H. Th. Thrastarson

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…

Spatially resolved maps of Jupiter's far-infrared 17-37 $\mu$m hydrogen-helium collision-induced spectrum were acquired by the FORCAST instrument on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) in May 2014. Spectral scans in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-06 Leigh N. Fletcher , I. de Pater , W. T. Reach , M. Wong , G. S. Orton , P. G. J. Irwin , R. D. Gehrz

A multi-decade record of ground-based mid-infrared (7-25 $\mu$m) images of Saturn is used to explore seasonal and non-seasonal variability in thermal emission over more than a Saturnian year (1984-2022). Thermal emission measured by 3-m and…

On 2015 February 21, simultaneous observations of Jupiter's decametric radio emission between 10 and 33 MHz were carried out using three powerful low-frequency radio telescopes: Long Wavelength Array Station One (LWA1) in USA; Nan\c{c}ay…

Phase curves and secondary eclipses of gaseous exoplanets are diagnostic of atmospheric composition and meteorology, and the long observational baseline and high photometric precision from the Kepler Mission make its dataset well-suited for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Brian Jackson , Elisabeth Adams , Wesley Sandidge , Steven Kreyche , Jennifer Briggs
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