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Variations in the color of jupiter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Neil B. Hopkins  and
William M. Irvine
Neil B. Hopkins
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass. U.S.A.
William M. Irvine
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass. U.S.A.

Abstract

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Observations of Jupiter by multicolor photoelectric photometry in 10 narrow bands between 3150 Å and 1.06 μ and in UBV showed a brightening for shorter wavelengths in 1965 relative to 1963. An opposite effect occurred for the band at 7300 Å. These results are consistent with observed activity in the Jovian atmosphere. No obvious correlation could be found between brightness fluctuations and longitude of the central meridian, indicating that the activity was uniform in longitude or occurred on time scales short compared to a month.

Type
Part III: Outer Planets
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 40: Planetary Atmospheres , 1971 , pp. 349 - 352
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1971 

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