waves from quantitative analysis of specular reflections from jingpo lacus and kraken mare
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Waves from Quantitative Analysis of Specular Reflections from Jingpo Lacus and Kraken Mare. Jason W. Barnes Department of Physics University of Idaho. The T58 Specular Sequence. Specular Geometry Calculation. Overview Map. Southwestern Jingpo Lacus Map. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Waves from Quantitative Analysisof Specular Reflections from
Jingpo Lacus and Kraken Mare
Jason W. BarnesDepartment of PhysicsUniversity of Idaho
The T58 Specular Sequence
Specular Geometry Calculation
Overview Map
SouthwesternJingpoLacusMap
Lake Powell from seat 3D UA 306 LAX-BWICirca 12:38 Local Solar TimeImages ~10s apart(Delta-Phase_Angle between images ~250m/s*10s / 10km ~10 degRalph Lorenz
Effect of Waves on Specular Solar Image
The T58 Data, Compressed
SpecularFootprintsw/waves
FitQuality
T59
T59 Photometric Lightcurve
T59
Conclusions
•T58 4-point lightcurve allows us to place an upper limit of 0.2o on the waves present at southwestern Jingbo Lacus•T59 15-point, but less spectacular, lightcurve gives the first possible hints of wave activity on Titan – either changing wind activity or very-long-wavelength waves (but could still be clouds)•Future high-cadence observations with points every 10 seconds across a few hours of specular observation time could really nail wave properties and lake index of refraction & composition; see next talk.