Event Title

Poster Session: Predicted Net Flux Versus Pressure Profiles During a Probe Descent into Uranus’s Atmosphere

Presenter Information

Meredith Wieber, University of Minnesota, Department of Physics and AstronomyFollow
Shahid Aslam, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Sciences Directorate
Maarten Roos, LightCurve Films
Patrick Irwin, University of Oxford, Department of Physics
Geronimo Villanueva, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Location

Virtual Meeting, University of Northern Iowa

Start Date

20-2-2021 10:00 AM

End Date

20-2-2021 11:00 AM

Publication Date

2-20-2021

Publication Type

Open Access Presentation

Description

The responsivity of the proposed Net Flux Radiometer (NFR) for the Ice Giants was examined, using a specialty browser tool. This tool takes simulated spectra of Uranus, along with specific parameters of the NFR, and applies Net Flux calculations in order to produce a net flux profile, a simulated view of what the NFR probe would observe as it plunged into Uranus’s atmosphere. The efforts of this project led to a redesign of the NFR to include an increase in the FOV of the radiation-collection windows from 5° to 10°, as well as the selection of spectral bandwidths for observation in the seven available detector windows.

Department

Department of Physics

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Copyright

©2021 Meredith Wieber, Shahid Aslam, Maarten Roos, Patrick Irwin, and Geronimo Villanueva

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Recommended Citation

Wieber, Meredith; Aslam, Shahid; Roos, Maarten; Irwin, Patrick; and Villanueva, Geronimo, "Poster Session: Predicted Net Flux Versus Pressure Profiles During a Probe Descent into Uranus’s Atmosphere" (2021). Society of Physics Students Regional Meeting. 6.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/sps/2021/all/6