Venus photometric flux and los velocities Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Gaulme P.
  2. Schmider F.-X.
  3. Widemann T.
  4. Goncalves I.
  5. Lopez Ariste A.,Gelly B.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Measuring Venus' atmospheric circulation at different altitudes is important for understanding its complex dynamics, in particular the mechanisms driving the super-rotation. Observationally, Doppler imaging spectroscopy is in principle be the most reliable way to measure wind speeds of planetary atmospheres because it directly provides the projected speed of atmospheric particles. However, high-resolution imaging-spectroscopy is challenging, especially in the visible domain, and most of the knowledge about atmospheric dynamics has been obtained with cloud-tracking technique. The objective of the present work is to measure the global properties of Venus' atmospheric dynamics at the altitude of the uppermost clouds, which is probed by reflected solar lines in the visible domain. Our results are based on high-resolution spectroscopic observations with the long slit spectrometer of the solar telescope THEMIS. We present the first instantaneous "radial-velocity snapshot" of any planet of the solar system in the visible domain, i.e., a complete RV map of the planet obtained by stacking data on less than 10% of its rotation period. From this, we measure the properties of the zonal and meridional winds, which we unambiguously detect. We identify a wind circulation pattern that significantly differs from previous knowledge about Venus. The zonal wind displays a "hot spot" structure, featuring about 200m/s at sunrise and 70m/s at noon in the equatorial region. Regarding meridional winds, we detect an equator-to-pole meridional flow peaking at 45m/s at mid latitudes, i.e., which is about twice as large as what was reported so far.

Keywords
  1. solar-system
  2. solar-system-planets
  3. photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019A&A...627A..82G
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/627/A82
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/627/A82
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.36270082

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History

2019-07-03T08:18:01Z
Resource record created
2019-07-03T08:18:01Z
Created
2019-07-26T13:30:19Z
Updated

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