Bibcode
Rowe, J. F.; Gaulme, Patrick; Lissauer, Jack J.; Marley, Mark S.; Simon, Amy A.; Hammel, Heidi B.; Silva Aguirre, Víctor; Barclay, Thomas; Benomar, Othman; Boumier, Patrick; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Casewell, Sarah L.; Chaplin, William J.; Colón, Knicole D.; Corsaro, E.; Davies, G. R.; Fortney, Jonathan J.; Garcia, Rafael A.; Gizis, John E.; Haas, Michael R.; Mosser, Benoît; Schmider, François-Xavier
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 153, Issue 4, article id. 149, 11 pp. (2017).
Fecha de publicación:
4
2017
Número de citas
9
Número de citas referidas
9
Descripción
We report here on our search for excess power in photometry of Neptune
collected by the K2 mission that may be due to intrinsic global
oscillations of the planet Neptune. To conduct this search, we developed
new methods to correct for instrumental effects such as intrapixel
variability and gain variations. We then extracted and analyzed the
time-series photometry of Neptune from 49 days of nearly continuous
broadband photometry of the planet. We find no evidence of global
oscillations and place an upper limit of ∼5 ppm at 1000 μ {Hz}
for the detection of a coherent signal. With an observed cadence of 1
minute and a point-to-point scatter of less than 0.01%, the photometric
signal is dominated by reflected light from the Sun, which is in turn
modulated by atmospheric variability of Neptune at the 2% level. A
change in flux is also observed due to the increasing distance between
Neptune and the K2 spacecraft and the solar variability with
convection-driven solar p modes present.