Saturn - UBV photoelectric pinhole scans of the disk. II

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Dec 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980icar...44..657p&link_type=abstract

Icarus, vol. 44, Dec. 1980, p. 657-666.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Aerosols, Astronomical Photometry, Atmospheric Models, Electrophotometers, Point Spread Functions, Saturn Atmosphere, Ubv Spectra, Albedo, Equatorial Regions, Hydrogen, Pinhole Cameras, Polar Regions, Scanning, Ultraviolet Absorption

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During the 1980 Saturn apparition, UBV pinhole scans of the disk were obtained with a photoelectric area-scanning photometer. An analysis of these data reveals that the atmosphere of Saturn can be represented by a finite clear H2 layer overlying a semiinfinite absorbent aerosol haze. The extent of the clear H2 region appears to be latitude-dependent; the H2 column density varies systematically from about 15 km-am over the equatorial and polar regions to about 31 km-am at temperate latitudes. A previous conclusion that the aerosol haze is strongly absorbent in the UV is confirmed; its effective U-band single-scattering albedo is about 0.4. Latitudinal disk structure at visual wavelengths appears to be the result of local variations in the volume density of absorbent particles in the aerosol layer.

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