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Measuring NH3 and other molecular abundance profiles from 5 microns ground-based spectroscopy in support of JUNO investigations

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We report on results of an observational campaign to support the Juno mission. At the beginning of 2016, using TEXES (Texas Echelon cross-dispersed Echelle Spectrograph), mounted on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF), we obtained data cubes of Jupiter in the 1930--1943 cm<SUP>-1</SUP> and 2135--2153 cm<SUP>-1</SUP> spectral ranges (around 5 mum), which probe the atmosphere in the 1--4 bar region, with a spectral resolution of &#8776;0.3 cm<SUP>-1</SUP> (R&#8776;7000) and an angular resolution of &#8776;1.5''.This dataset is analyzed by a code that combines a line-by-line radiative transfer model with a non-linear optimal estimation inversion method. The inversion retrieves the abundance profiles of NH<SUB>3</SUB> and PH<SUB>3</SUB>, which are the main conbtributors at these wavelengths, as well as the cloud transmittance. This retrieval is performed over more than one thousand pixels of our data cubes, producing effective maps of the disk, where all the major belts are visible (NEB, SEB, NTB, STB, NNTB and SSTB).We will present notably our retrieved NH<SUB>3</SUB> abundance maps which can be compared with the unexpected latitudinal distribution observed by Juno's MWR (Bolton et al., 2017 and Li et al. 2017), as well as our other species retrieved abundance maps and discuss on their significance for the understanding of Jupiter's atmospheric dynamics.References:Bolton, S., et al. (2017), Jupiter's interior and deep atmosphere: The first close polar pass with the Juno spacecraft, Science, doi:10.1126/science.aal2108, in press.Li, C., A. P. Ingersoll, S. Ewald, F. Oyafuso, and M. Janssen (2017), Jupiter's global ammonia distribution from inversion of Juno Microwave Radiometer observations, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1002/2017GL073159, in press.
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hal-03729857 , version 1 (20-07-2022)

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Doriann Blain, Thierry Fouchet, Thomas K. Greathouse, Bruno Bézard, Thérèse Encrenaz, et al.. Measuring NH3 and other molecular abundance profiles from 5 microns ground-based spectroscopy in support of JUNO investigations. AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting #49, Oct 2017, Provo, UT, United States. ⟨hal-03729857⟩

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