Buoyancy waves in Pluto's high atmosphere: Implications for stellar occultations

Buoyancy waves in Pluto's high atmosphere: Implications for stellar occultations

We apply scintillation theory to stellar signal fluctuations in the high-resolution, high signal/noise, dual-wavelength data from the MMT observation of the 2007 March 18 occultation of P445.3 by Pluto. A well-defined high wavenumber cutoff in the fluctuations is consistent with viscous-thermal diss...

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Main Authors: Person, Michael J. (Contributor), Elliot, James L. (Contributor), Gulbis, Amanda A. S. (Contributor), Hubbard, William B. (Author), McCarthy, D.W (Author), Kulesa, Craig A. (Author), Benecchi, Susan D. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier, 2012-10-04T13:06:08Z.
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