A decade's overview of Io's volcanic activity

Details A decade's overview of Io's volcanic activity A decade's overview of Io's volcanic activity

Mar 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993lpi....24..939m&link_type=abstract

In Lunar and Planetary Inst., Twenty-Fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 2: G-M p 939-940 (SEE N94-16173 03-91)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Flux Density, Heat Transmission, Infrared Astronomy, Io, Temporal Distribution, Thermal Emission, Thermal Radiation, Volcanoes, Infrared Spectra, Longitude, Planetary Geology, Planetary Radiation, Volcanology

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Over the past decade some aspects of Io's volcanic activity have changed greatly, while others have essentially remained constant. This contrast has emerged from our study of multi-wavelength, infrared, observations of Io's thermal emission. From 1983 to 1992 we observed the disk integrated flux density of Io from the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Our spectral coverage allows us to separate out the emission components due to volcanic thermal anomalies which are warmer than the background emission caused by solar heating. Our temporal coverage allows us to resolve individual eruptions and also to obtain the disk-integrated flux density as a function of longitude (or, equivalently, orbital phase angle). Characteristics that persisted over the decade involve Loki's location and intensity of emission, the leading hemisphere emission, and the average heat flow. The variable aspects of Io over the decade include Loki's hotter area(s) and the outbursts in the leading hemisphere.

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