1. Microwave Observations of Venus with CLASS
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Sumit Dahal, Michael K. Brewer, Alex B. Akins, John W. Appel, Charles L. Bennett, Ricardo Bustos, Joseph Cleary, Jullianna D. Couto, Rahul Datta, Joseph Eimer, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Jeffrey Iuliano, Yunyang Li, Tobias A. Marriage, Carolina Núñez, Matthew A. Petroff, Rodrigo Reeves, Karwan Rostem, Rui Shi, Deniz A. N. Valle, Duncan J. Watts, Janet L. Weiland, Edward J. Wollack, and Zhilei Xu
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Venus ,Brightness temperature ,Atmospheric composition ,Astronomy ,QB1-991 - Abstract
We report on the disk-averaged absolute brightness temperatures of Venus measured at four microwave frequency bands with the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor. We measure temperatures of 432.3 ± 2.8, 355.6 ± 1.3, 317.9 ± 1.7, and 294.7 ± 1.9 K for frequency bands centered at 38.8, 93.7, 147.9, and 217.5 GHz, respectively. We do not observe any dependence of the measured brightness temperatures on solar illumination for all four frequency bands. A joint analysis of our measurements with lower-frequency Very Large Array observations suggests relatively warmer (∼7 K higher) mean atmospheric temperatures and lower abundances of microwave continuum absorbers than those inferred from prior radio occultation measurements.
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- 2023
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