Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Observing Jupiter's polar stratospheric haze with HST/STIS. An HST White Paper |
| Authors: |
Grodent, Denis, Bonfond, Bertrand, Nichols, Jonathan |
| Publication Year: |
2015 |
| Collection: |
Astrophysics |
| Subject Terms: |
Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| More Details: |
The purpose of this HST white paper is to demonstrate that it is possible to monitor Jupiter's polar haze with HST/STIS without breaking the ground screening limit for bright objects. This demonstration rests on a thorough simulation of STIS output from an existing image obtained with HST/WFPC2. It is shown that the STIS NUV-MAMA + F25CIII filter assembly provides a count rate per pixel ~11 times smaller than that obtained for one pixel of WFPC2 WF3 CCD + F218W corresponding filter. This ratio is sufficiently large to cope with the bright solar light scattered by Jupiter's atmosphere, which was a lesser concern for WFPC2 CCD safety. These STIS images would provide unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution observations of small-scale stratospheric aerosol structures, possibly associated with Jupiter's complex FUV aurora.
Comment: HST white paper submitted to the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) |
| Document Type: |
Working Paper |
| Access URL: |
http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01412 |
| Accession Number: |
edsarx.1509.01412 |
| Database: |
arXiv |
