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The Great Saturn Storm of 2010-2011
Agustín Sánchez-Lavega, Georg Fischer, Leigh N. Fletcher +5
In December 2010, a major storm erupted in Saturn's northern hemisphere near 37 degree planetographic latitude. This rather surprising event, occurring at an unexpected latitude an…
Latitudinal variability in Jupiter's tropospheric disequilibrium species: GeH, AsH and PH
Rohini S. Giles, Leigh N. Fletcher, Patrick G. J. Irwin
Jupiter's tropospheric composition is studied using high resolution spatially-resolved 5-micron observation from the CRIRES instrument at the Very Large Telescope. The high resolvi…
Jupiter's Para-H Distribution from SOFIA/FORCAST and Voyager/IRIS 17-37 m Spectroscopy
Leigh N. Fletcher, I. de Pater, W. T. Reach +4
Spatially resolved maps of Jupiter's far-infrared 17-37 m hydrogen-helium collision-induced spectrum were acquired by the FORCAST instrument on the Stratospheric Observatory for…
Saturn's Polar Atmosphere
Kunio M. Sayanagi, Kevin H. Baines, Ulyana A. Dyudina +3
This book chapter, Saturn's Polar Atmosphere, is to be published by Cambridge University Press as part of a multi-volume work edited by Kevin Baines, Michael Flasar, Norbert Krupp,…
Mid-Infrared Mapping of Jupiter's Temperatures, Aerosol Opacity and Chemical Distributions with IRTF/TEXES
L. N. Fletcher, T. K. Greathouse, G. S. Orton +4
Global maps of Jupiter's atmospheric temperatures, gaseous composition and aerosol opacity are derived from a programme of 5-20 m mid-infrared spectroscopic observations using t…
Stratospheric aftermath of the 2010 Storm on Saturn as observed by the TEXES instrument. I. Temperature structure
Thierry Fouchet, Thomas K. Greathouse, Aymeric Spiga +4
We report on spectroscopic observations of Saturn's stratosphere in July 2011 with the Texas Echelon Cross Echelle Spectrograph (TEXES) mounted on the NASA InfraRed Telescope Facil…
Detection of H3+ auroral emission in Jupiter's 5-micron window
Rohini S. Giles, Leigh N. Fletcher, Patrick G. J. Irwin +2
We use high-resolution ground-based observations from the VLT CRIRES instrument in December 2012 to identify sixteen previously undetected H3+ emission lines from Jupiter's ionosph…
Telling twins apart: Exo-Earths and Venuses with transit spectroscopy
Joanna K. Barstow, Suzanne Aigrain, Patrick G. J. Irwin +2
The planned launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in 2018 will herald a new era of exoplanet spectroscopy. JWST will be the first telescope sensitive enough to potentially chara…
Probing Saturn's tropospheric cloud with Cassini/VIMS
Joanna K Barstow, Patrick G. J. Irwin, Leigh N. Fletcher +2
In its decade of operation the Cassini mission has allowed us to look deep into Saturn's atmosphere and investigate the processes occurring below its enshrouding haze. We use Visua…
Reanalysis of Uranus' cloud scattering properties from IRTF/SpeX observations using a self-consistent scattering cloud retrieval scheme
P. G. J. Irwin, D. S. Tice, L. N. Fletcher +4
We have developed a new retrieval approach to modelling near-infrared spectra of Uranus that represents a significant improvement over previous modelling methods. We reanalysed IRT…