Repository For Jupiter Equatorial Zone Disturbance Data

Antuñano et al. (2018) used Jupiter infrared data captured by 8 different ground-based instruments mounted on the Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Maunakea and Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Paranal between 1984 and 2017, to investigate a pattern of cloud clearance events at Jupiter's equatorial zone at 5 µm.This repository contains (i) cylindrical maps of Jupiter's 5-µm images from 1999-2000 and 2006-2007 captured by NSFCam and NSFCam2 instruments, respectively, mounted on the IRTF, showing Jupiter's Equatorial Zone disturbance, and (ii) a data file showing the brightness scans from ±7° latitude as a function of time used to build Figure 2. DATA As descibed in Antuñano et al. (2018), the normalised average brightness from 1984-2017 was used to charcterise three different cloud clearance events of Jupiter's equatorial zone at 5 µm. The normalised average brightness of the equatorial zone between ±7° latitude is given in "Brightness_scans_1984-2017.dat", where the first column represents the Julian date, the second column represents the latitude in planetocentric degrees, the third column represents the normalised average brightness and the fourth column gives the standard deviation of the normalised average brightness.