Ethylene line emission from the North Pole of Jupiter

Details Ethylene line emission from the North Pole of Jupiter Ethylene line emission from the North Pole of Jupiter

Oct 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991plas.rept..168k&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Astronomy, 1991 p 168 (SEE N92-12792 03-89)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Atmospheric Composition, Ethylene, Infrared Spectroscopy, Infrared Telescopes, Jupiter (Planet), Jupiter Atmosphere, Line Shape, Line Spectra, Stratosphere, Augmentation, Heterodyning, Infrared Radiation, Latitude, Longitude, Morphology

Scientific paper

A significant enhancement in infrared emission from hydrocarbon constituents of Jupiter's stratosphere was observed at a north polar hot spot (60 degrees latitude, 180 degrees longitude). A unique probe of this phenomena is ethylene (C2H4), which has not been observed previously from the ground. The profile of the emission line from ethylene at 951.742 cm-1, measured near the north pole of Jupiter, was analyzed to determine the morphology of the enhancement, the increase in C2H4 abundance and local temperature, as well as possible information on the altitude (pressure regions) where the increased emission is formed. Measurements were made using infrared heterodyne spectroscopy at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea, Hawaii in December 1989. At 181 degrees longitude a very strong emission line was seen, which corresponds to a 13-fold increase in C2H4 abundance or a 115K increase in temperature in the upper stratosphere, compared to values outside the hot spot. The hot spot was found to be localized to approx. 10 degrees in longitude; the line shape (width) implied that the enhanced emission originated very high in the stratosphere.

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