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    • A complex storm system in Saturn's north polar atmosphere in 2018 

      Sánchez Lavega, Agustín; García Melendo, Enrique José; Legarreta, Jon J.; Hueso, Ricardo; del Rio Gaztelurrutia, Teresa; Sanz-Requena, Jose Francisco; Pérez Hoyos, Santiago; Simon, Amy A.; Wong, Michael; Soria Guerrero, Manel; Gómez Forrellad, Josep Maria; Barry, Trevor; Delcroix, Marc; Sayanagi, Kunio; Blalock, J; Gunnarson, J. L.; Dyudina, Uliana; Ewald, S. (Springer Nature, 2019-10-21)
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      Saturn’s convective storms usually fall in two categories. One consists of mid-sized storms ~2,000¿km wide, appearing as irregular bright cloud systems that evolve rapidly, on scales of a few days. The other includes the ...

    • A large active wave trapped in Jupiter's equator 

      Legarreta, Jon; Barrado-Izaguirre, Naiara; García Melendo, Enrique José; Sanchez-Lavega, Agustin; Gómez-Forrellad, Josep M. (EDP Sciences, 2017-02-11)
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      Context. A peculiar atmospheric feature was observed in the equatorial zone (EZ) of Jupiter between September and December 2012 in ground-based and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images. This feature consisted of two low ...

    • A planetary-scale disturbance in a long living three vortex coupled system in Saturn's atmosphere 

      del Rio-Gaztelurrutia, Teresa; Sanchez-Lavega, Agustin; Antuñano, Arrate; Legarreta, Jon; García Melendo, Enrique José; Sayanagi, Kunio; Hueso, Ricardo; Wong, Michael; Pérez Hoyos, Santiago; Rojas, Jose Felix; Simon, A. A.; de Pater, Imke; Blalock, J.; Barry, Trevor (2018-03-01)
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      The zonal wind profile of Saturn has a unique structure at 60°N with a double-peaked jet that reaches maximum zonal velocities close to 100 ms-1. In this region, a singular group of vortices consisting of a cyclone surrounded ...

    • A planetary-scale disturbance in a long-living three-vortex coupled system in Saturn's atmosphere 

      del Rio-Gaztelurrutia, Teresa; Sanchez-Lavega, Agustin; Antuñano, Arrate; García Melendo, Enrique José; Legarreta, Jon; Sayanagi, Kunio; Hueso, Ricardo; Wong, Michael; Perez-Hoyos, Santiago; Sanz-Requena, Jose Francisco; Rojas, Jose Felix; Simon, Amy; de Pater, Imke; Barry, Trevor (2017)
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      The zonal wind profile of Saturn has a singular structure in the latitude range 50ºN-65ºN planetocentric, with a double peak that reaches maximum zonal velocities close to 100ms-1[1]. A survey of Cassini ISS images ...

    • A planetary-scale disturbance in the most intense Jovian atmospheric jet from JunoCam and ground-based observations 

      Sanchez-Lavega, Agustin; Rogers, John H; Orton, Glenn; García Melendo, Enrique José; Legarreta, Jon; Colas, Françoise; Dauvergne, J; Hueso, Ricardo; Rojas, Jose Félix; Perez-Hoyos, Santiago; Mendikoa, Iñigo; Iñurrigarro, P; Gómez-Forrellad, Josep M.; Momary, T; Hansen, C. J.; Eichstaedt, G.; Miles, P; Wesley, A (2017-05-25)
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      We describe a huge planetary-scale disturbance in the highest-speed Jovian jet at latitude 23.5°N that was first observed in October 2016 during the Juno perijove-2 approach. An extraordinary outburst of four plumes was ...

    • AKATSUKI-IR2 reveals unexpected opacity disruption affecting Venus's lower clouds every 9 days 

      Peralta, Javier; Satoh, T; Horinouchi, T; Ogohara, K; Kouyama, T; Murakami, S; Imamura, T; McGouldrick, K; Sato, T M; Limaye, Sanjai; García Melendo, Enrique José; Sanchez-Lavega, Agustin; Hueso, Ricardo (2017)
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      The images of AKATSUKI acquired with the camera IR2 at 1.74-2.3 µm report the discovery of an equatorial disruption or “front” in the opacity of the lower clouds of Venus at 50 km between 30ºN¿30ºS. This feature appears ...

    • An enduring rapidly moving storm as a guide to Saturn's Equatorial jet's complex structure 

      Sanchez-Lavega, Agustin; García Melendo, Enrique José; Perez-Hoyos, Santiago; Hueso, Ricardo; Wong, Michael; Simon, Amy A.; Sanz-Requena, Jose Francisco; Antuñano, Arrate; Barrado-Izaguirre, Naiara; Garate-López, Itziar; Rojas, Jose Félix; del Rio-Gaztelurrutia, Teresa; Gómez-Forrellad, Josep M.; de Pater, Imke; Li, Liming; Barry, Trevor (2016-11-08)
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      Saturn has an intense and broad eastward equatorial jet with a complex three-dimensional structure mixed with time variability. The equatorial region experiences strong seasonal insolation variations enhanced by ring ...

    • Analysis of planetary spacecraft images with SPICE 

      Peña Mercade, Teresa; Soria Guerrero, Manel; Betriu, Paula; García Melendo, Enrique José (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-04-29)
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      Spacecraft images are an invaluable source of information in Planetary Science. However, they must be processed and the initial stage is to navigate them, i.e., determine the longitude and latitude coordinates of each pixel ...

    • Discovery of XO-6b: A Hot Jupiter Transiting a Fast Rotating F5 Star on an Oblique Orbit 

      Crouzet, N.; McCullough, Peter; Long, D.; Montañes Rodriguez, Pilar; Lecavelier des Etangs, A; Ribas, Ignasi; Bourrier, V.; Hébrard, G.; Vilardell, Francesc; Deleuil, M.; Herrero, Enrique; García Melendo, Enrique José; Akhenak, L.; Foote, Cindy; Gary, B.; Benny, P.; Guillot, T.; Conjat, M.; Mékarnia, D.; Garlitz, J.; Burke, C. J.; Courcol, B.; Demangeon, O (2017-02-03)
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      Only a few hot Jupiters are known to orbit around fast rotating stars. These exoplanets are harder to detect and characterize and may be less common than around slow rotators. Here, we report the discovery of the transiting ...

    • Interaction of Saturn’s Hexagon with convective storms 

      Sánchez Lavega, Agustín; García Melendo, Enrique José; del Rio Gaztelurrutia, Teresa; Hueso, Ricardo; Simon, Amy; Wong, Michael; Ahrens Velásquez, Kevin; Soria Guerrero, Manel; Barry, Trevor; Go, Christopher; Foster, Clyde (2021-04-26)
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      In March 2020 a convective storm erupted at planetographic latitude 76°N in the southern flank of Saturn’s long-lived hexagonal wave. The storm reached a zonal size of 4,500 km and developed a tail extending zonally 33,000 ...

    • Jupiter as an exoplanet: UV to NIR transmission spectrum reveals hazes, a Na layer, and possibly stratospheric H2O-ice clouds 

      Montañés-Ridríguez, Pilar; González-Merino, B.; Pallé, Enric; López-Puertas, Manuel; García Melendo, Enrique José (Institute of Physics (IOP), 2015-02-26)
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      Currently, the analysis of transmission spectra is the most successful technique to probe the chemical composition of exoplanet atmospheres. However, the accuracy of these measurements is constrained by observational ...

    • Jupiter’s Great Red Spot: strong interactions with incoming anticyclones in 2019 

      Sanchez Lavega, Agustin; Anguiano Arteaga, A; Iñurrigarro, Peio; García Melendo, Enrique José; Legarreta, Jon J.; Hueso, Ricardo; Sanz Requena, Jose Francisco; Perez Hoyos, Santiago; Mendikoa, Iñigo; Soria Guerrero, Manel; Rojas, Jose Félix; Andrés Carcasona, Marc; Prat Gasull, Arnau; Ordoñez Etxebarria, I; Rogers, John H; Foster, Clyde; Mizumoto, S; Casely, A; Hansen, C. J.; Orton, Glenn S.; Momary, T; Eichstädt, Gerald (Wiley, 2021-04)
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      Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS), a giant anticyclone, is the largest and longest-lived of all the vortices observed in planetary atmospheres. During its history, the GRS has shrunk to half its size since 1879, and encountered ...

    • PlanetCam UPV/EHU: a two-channel lucky imaging camera for solar system studies in the spectral range 0.38-1.7 µm 

      Mendikoa, Iñigo; Sanchez-Lavega, Agustin; Perez-Hoyos, Santiago; Hueso, Ricardo; Rojas, Jose Felix; Aceituno, Jesus; Aceituno Castro, Francisco José; Gaizka, Murga; De Bilbao, Lander; García Melendo, Enrique José (2016-02-02)
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      We present PlanetCam UPV/EHU, an astronomical camera designed fundamentally for high-resolution imaging of Solar System planets using the “lucky imaging” technique. The camera observes in a wavelength range from 380 nm to ...

    • Saturn atmospheric dynamics one year after Cassini: Long-lived features and time variations in the drift of the Hexagon 

      Hueso, Ricardo; Sánchez Lavega, Agustín; Rojas, Jose Félix; Simon, Amy A.; Barry, Trevor; del Rio Gaztelurrutia, Teresa; Antuñano, Arrate; Sayanagi, Kunio; Delcroix, M.; Fletcher, Leigh N.; García Melendo, Enrique José; Pérez Hoyos, Santiago; Blalock, J; Colas, Françoise; Gómez Forrellad, Josep Maria; Gunnarson, J. L.; Peach, D.; Wong, Michael (2020-01-15)
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      We examine Saturn's atmospheric dynamics with observations in the visible range from ground-based telescopes and Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We present a detailed analysis of observations acquired during 2018 obtaining ...

    • Shallow water simulations of Saturn's giant storms at different latitudes 

      García Melendo, Enrique José; Sanchez-Lavega, Agustin (2017-04)
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      Shallow water simulations are used to present a unified study of three major storms on Saturn (nicknamed as Great White Spots, GWS) at different latitudes, polar (1960), equatorial (1990), and mid-latitude (2010) ...

    • The EBLM project. II. A very hot, low-mass M dwarf in an eccentric and long-period, eclipsing binary system from the SuperWASP Survey 

      Gómez Maqueo Chew, Y; Morales, Juan Carlos; Faedi, F.; García Melendo, Enrique José; Hebb, L.; Rodler, Florian; Deshpande, R.; Mahadevan, S.; McCormac, J.; Barnes, R.; Triaud, A. H. M. J.; Lopez-Morales, Mercedes; Skillen, I.; Collier Cameron, A.; Joner, M. D.; Laney, C. D.; Stephens, D. C.; Stassun, K. G.; Cargile, P. A.; Montañés-Ridríguez, Pilar (EDP Sciences, 2014-12)
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      In this paper, we derive the fundamental properties of 1SWASPJ011351.29+314909.7 (J0113+31), a metal-poor (-0.40 ± 0.04 dex), eclipsing binary in an eccentric orbit (~0.3) with an orbital period of ~14.277 d. Eclipsing M ...

    • Towards a quantitative understanding of Robert's Rising Thermal Bubble as a benchmark for 3D atmospheric codes 

      Andrés Carcasona, Marc; Soria Guerrero, Manel; García Melendo, Enrique José; Miró Jané, Arnau (American Meteorological Society, 2023-02-01)
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      Robert’s rising thermal bubble (RRTB) is a benchmark case used to assess atmospheric models. In this paper, RRTB is further studied both using an analytical and a numerical approach, improving to a greater extent the ...

    • XO-7 b: A Transiting Hot Jupiter with a Massive Companion on a Wide Orbit 

      Crouzet, Nicholas Michael; Healy, Bryan; Hebrard, Guillaume; García Melendo, Enrique José (2020-02-01)
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      Transiting planets orbiting bright stars are the most favorable targets for follow-up and characterization. We report the discovery of the transiting hot Jupiter XO-7 b and of a second, massive companion on a wide orbit ...