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Venus observations at 40 and 90 GHz with CLASS
Dahal, Sumit
Brewer, Michael
Appel, John
Ali, Aamir
Bennett, Charles
Chan, Manwei
Chuss, David
Cleary, Joseph
Couto, Jullianna
Datta, Rahul
Denis, Kevin
Eimer, Joseph
Espinoza, Francisco
Essinger-Hileman, Thomas
Gothe, Dominik
Harrington, Kathleen
Iuliano, Jeffrey
Karakla, John
Marriage, Tobias
Novack, Sasha
Núñez, Carolina
Padilla, Ivan
Parker, Lucas
Petroff, Matthew
Reeves, Rodrigo
Rhoades, Gary
Rostem, Karwan
Valle, Deniz
Watts, Duncan
Weiland, Janet
Wollack, Edward
Xu, Zhilei
IOP Publishing
2021
Using the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor, we measure the disk-averaged absolute Venus brightness temperature to be 432.3 ± 2.8 K and 355.6 ± 1.3 K in the Q and W frequency bands centered at 38.8 and 93.7 GHz, respectively. At both frequency bands, these are the most precise measurements to date. Furthermore, we observe no phase dependence of the measured temperature in either band. Our measurements are consistent with a CO2-dominant atmospheric model that includes trace amounts of additional absorbers like SO2 and H2SO4.
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