A comparison of values of the imaginary part of refractive index of aerosol particles in the latitudinal belts of Northern hemisphere of Saturn
| 1Ovsak, AS, 2Teifel, VG, 2Karimov, AM, 2Lysenko, PG 1Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine 2Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| Kinemat. fiz. nebesnyh tel (Online) 2018, 34(3):76-80 |
| https://doi.org/10.15407/kfnt2018.03.076 |
| Start Page: Dynamics and Physics of Solar System Bodies |
| Language: Russian |
Abstract: With using of a spectrophotometric measurements data of 2015, relations of values of imaginary part ni of the refractive index of aerosol was determined for latitudinal belts 17°N, 33°N, 49°N and 66°N of Saturn’s disc. We determined a steady in time tendency to decrease the relative values of ni when moving northward from the equatorial region of the disk to the latitude 49°N, inclusive. A significant difference between the values of ni in the 17°N and 49°N from other studied latitudinal sections of the disk of a giant planet is determined. The relative magnitude of the ni at the latitude 66°N in 2015 is close to its value at 40°N in 1980. |
| Keywords: atmosphere, imaginary part of the refractive index of cloud particles, latitudinal belts, Saturn |
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