The Implementation of Stellar Occultation Light Curve Modelling for Arbitrary Planetary Atmospheric Structures and the Analysis of Pluto’s Occultation Light Curves and Its Atmosphere

For decades, the analyses of stellar occultation light curves have been the most efficient method to study atmosphere of small solar system bodies. The variation in stellar flux due to the refraction in planetary atmosphere is directly related to the temperature profile of the planetary atmosphere....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tubthong, Chanita
Other Authors: Person, Michael J.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139388