2-μm absorption features of hydrogen dimers in the equatorial spectra of Jupiter.
Abstract
Recent high-resolution 2.10- to 2.13-μm equatorial spectra of Jupiter show several prominent absorption lines in addition to a narrow H 2 1-0 S(1) absorption. Comparison with laboratory spectra of the H 2 dimer reveals excellent wavelength coincidences with five of the jovian absorptions. We conclude that the jovian lines are due to the H 2 dimer. No other jovian lines are clearly detected in this spectral interval.
- Publication:
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Icarus
- Pub Date:
- January 1995
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1995Icar..113..217K
- Keywords:
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- Dimers;
- Equators;
- Hydrogen;
- Jupiter (Planet);
- Molecular Absorption;
- Data Correlation;
- Infrared Spectroscopy;
- Jupiter Atmosphere;
- Voyager Project;
- Jupiter Atmosphere: Hydrogen;
- Jupiter Atmosphere: Spectra