Buoyancy waves in Pluto's high atmosphere: Implications for stellar occultations

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2009-06-22

arxiv.org/abs/0906.4141v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Accepted 18 June 2009 for publication in Icarus

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We apply scintillation theory to stellar signal fluctuations in the high-resolution, high signal/noise, dual-wavelength data from the MMT observation of the 2007 March 18 occultation of P445.3 by Pluto. A well-defined high wavenumber cutoff in the fluctuations is consistent with viscous-thermal dissipation of buoyancy waves (internal gravity waves) in Pluto's high atmosphere, and provides strong evidence that the underlying density fluctuations are governed by the gravity-wave dispersion relation.

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