کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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1775336 | 1021190 | 2009 | 15 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The Dark Spot in the atmosphere of Uranus in 2006: Discovery, description, and dynamical simulations
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مهندسی و علوم پایه
علوم زمین و سیارات
علوم فضا و نجوم
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چکیده انگلیسی
We report the first definitive detection of a discrete dark atmospheric feature on Uranus in 2006 using visible and near-infrared images from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck II 10-m telescope. Like Neptune's Great Dark Spots, this Uranus Dark Spot had bright companion features that exhibited considerable variability in brightness and location relative to the Dark Spot. We detected the feature or its bright companions on 16 June (Hubble), 30 July and 1 August (Keck), 23-24 August (Hubble), and 15 October (Keck). The dark feature-detected at latitude â¼28±1° N with an average physical extent of roughly 2° (1300 km) in latitude and 5° (2700 km) in longitude-moved with a nearly constant zonal velocity of 43.1±0.1 msâ1, which is roughly 20 mâsâ1 greater than the average observed speed of bright features at this latitude. The dark feature's contrast and extent varied as a function of wavelength, with largest negative contrast occurring at a surprisingly long wavelength when compared with Neptune's dark features: the Uranus feature was detected out to 1.6 μm with a contrast of â0.07, but it was undetectable at 0.467 μm; the Neptune GDS seen by Voyager exhibited its most prominent contrast of â0.12 at 0.48 μm, and was undetectable longward of 0.7 μm. Computational fluid dynamic simulations of the dark feature on Uranus suggest that structure in the zonal wind profile may be a critical factor in the emergence of large sustained vortices.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Icarus - Volume 201, Issue 1, May 2009, Pages 257-271
Journal: Icarus - Volume 201, Issue 1, May 2009, Pages 257-271
نویسندگان
H.B. Hammel, L.A. Sromovsky, P.M. Fry, K. Rages, M. Showalter, I. de Pater, M.A. van Dam, R.P. LeBeau, X. Deng,