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Elliot JL Ates A Babcock BA Bosh AS Buie MW Clancy KB Dunham EW Eikenberry SS Hall DT Kern SD Leggett SK Levine SE Moon DS Olkin CB Osip DJ Pasachoff JM Penprase BE Person MJ Qu S Rayner JT Roberts LC Salyk CV Souza SP Stone RC Taylor BW Tholen DJ Thomas-Osip JE Ticehurst DR Wasserman LH 《Nature》2003,424(6945):165-168
Stellar occultations--the passing of a relatively nearby body in front of a background star--can be used to probe the atmosphere of the closer body with a spatial resolution of a few kilometres (ref. 1). Such observations can yield the scale height, temperature profile, and other information about the structure of the occulting atmosphere. Occultation data acquired for Pluto's atmosphere in 1988 revealed a nearly isothermal atmosphere above a radius of approximately 1,215 km. Below this level, the data could be interpreted as indicating either an extinction layer or the onset of a large thermal gradient, calling into question the fundamental structure of this atmosphere. Another question is to what extent Pluto's atmosphere might be collapsing as it recedes from the Sun (passing perihelion in 1989 in its 248-year orbital period), owing to the extreme sensitivity of the equilibrium surface pressure to the surface temperature. Here we report observations at a variety of visible and infrared wavelengths of an occultation of a star by Pluto in August 2002. These data reveal evidence for extinction in Pluto's atmosphere and show that it has indeed changed, having expanded rather than collapsed, since 1988. 相似文献
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