Towards a seismological model of Jupiter using inertial mode oscillations

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  • 21 June 2001
Abstract
Properties of inertial modes of Jupiter are investigated for an n=1 polytropic description of the planet interior. We use the anelastic approximation to overcome the usual handicap of a severe spherical harmonics truncation. A powerful iterative solver then allows us to compute the frequencies of the most promising observable modes using as many spherical harmonics as necessary. The induced O(1%) errors of our model are now within observational limits bringing us closer to a seismological model of Jupiter based on inertial modes.

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