Computer Science – Sound
Scientific paper
Feb 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011icar..211.1233c&link_type=abstract
Icarus, Volume 211, Issue 2, p. 1233-1241.
Computer Science
Sound
Scientific paper
Infrared observations obtained in 1999-2000 with the Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS/BEAR) instrument at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) are used to infer the jovian wind velocity in the north pole auroral region. The measured Doppler shifts of the H2 and H3+ lines near 2.1 μm are used to derive the ion and neutral wind velocities in Jupiter’s high latitude thermosphere. We find that the H3+ “hot spot” region reported by Raynaud et al. (Raynaud, E., Lellouch, E., Maillard, J.-P., Gladstone, G.R., Waite Jr., J.H., Bezard, B., Drossart, P., Fouchet, T. [2004]. Icarus 171, 133-152) is characterized by a H3+ flow with a velocity reaching 3.1 ± 0.4 km/s, while only an upper limit for the average H2 wind velocity of 1.0 km/s is derived. The uncertainties derived for the absolute velocities are primarily due to instrumental effects and don’t affect the relative velocity between H3+ and H2, for which a lower limit is found to be 1.7 km/s. The lower velocity inferred from the H2 emission in regards to H3+ emission may result from differences in altitudes sounded by these lines.
Bougher Stephen W.
Chaufray Jean-Yves
Drossart Pierre
Gladstone Randall G.
Greathouse Thomas K.
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