Title
The 90-day oscillations of Jupiter's Great Red Spot revisited
Date Issued
01 April 2000
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Bureau des Longitudes
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
We have analyzed a large set of ground-based CCD images covering the period from 1993 to early 1999, to address the current status and behavior of the 90-day longitudinal oscillations of the Jovian Great Red Spot (GRS). The good temporal sampling of these data have been complemented with a small set of high resolution Hubble Space Telescope images. The average zonal velocity of the GRS from 1994 to 1998 was -3.8 ms-1 with extreme values of -2.4 and -4.2 ms-1 in 1993-1994 resulting from the interactions with nearby features. Our study confirms the existence of the longitudinal oscillations with a mean period of 89.8 ± 0.15 days and an amplitude of 1.2 ± 0.7°. The oscillations survived the strong interactions between the GRS and a variety of disturbances that took place during the observing period. No significant changes in the parameters defining the oscillations are observed when a comparison is made with a previous analysis from years 1961 to 1981. © 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Start page
331
End page
339
Volume
48
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Astronomía
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0005955408
Source
Planetary and Space Science
ISSN of the container
00320633
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