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Excitation and Damping of Oscillation Modes in Gaseous Planets

  • Authors: Jim Fuller, Marzia Parisi, Steve Markham, A. James Friedson, J. R. Fuentes

Jim Fuller et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

The damping time of  = 2 p-modes of Saturn, as a function of mode frequency. The green line shows damping due to convective viscosity (Equation (14)), the orange line accounts for damping due to radiative diffusion, and the purple line accounts for wave damping above the acoustic cutoff frequency (Equation (16)). Modes with frequencies larger than f ≳ fac ∼ 1.5 mHz are strongly damped due to the latter effect.

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