Spatially resolved observations of the forbidden SO aΔ→XΣ rovibronic transition on Io during an eclipse and a volcanic eruption at Ra Patera

Details Spatially resolved observations of the forbidden SO aΔ→XΣ rovibronic transition on Io during an eclipse and a volcanic eruption at Ra Patera Spatially resolved observations of the forbidden SO aΔ→XΣ rovibronic transition on Io during an eclipse and a volcanic eruption at Ra Patera

Nov 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007icar..191..172d&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 191, Issue 1, p. 172-182.

Physics

Optics

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Scientific paper

We report observations of Io that were conducted on UT 12 November 2002 with the NIRSPEC spectrometer, coupled to the adaptive optics system, on the 10-m Keck II telescope. We detected a bright eruption in the Ra Patera area, with a color (H K′ band) temperature of 1031±110 K over an effective area of 1.5±0.2 km. The eruption was associated with a hot plume, which revealed itself through SO emission at a rate of (9±3)×10 photonss, about 10 15% of Io's total SO flux at the time. The rotational temperature was 700±150 K. No significant SO emission was received from Io's northern hemisphere (north of Ra Patera/Loki); roughly 50% of the total SO emission came from the equatorial region (including Ra Patera, Janus and Loki), and ˜40% came from the south. The rotational temperatures typically measured between 600 and 1000 K. The emissions are most likely produced by SO molecules ejected out of volcanic vents in the excited aΔ state. Our narrow band images that span the SO emission band suggest that a source near Io's south pole, Nemea, may be a source of some of the southern SO emissions.

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