Infrared Characterization of Jupiter's Equatorial Disturbance Cycle

This work is partially supported by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, grant agreement 723890, at the University of Leicester, by a Royal Society Research Fellowship and by UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) grant ST/N000749/1. A portion of this work was performed by GSO at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with NASA. We are grateful to thank all those involved in the acquisition of these 5‐μm data over many years, including but not limited to Thomas Greathouse, Kevin Baines, Padma Yanamandra‐Fisher, Tom Momary, Jim Friedson, Jose Luis Ortiz, and John Spencer. We wish to thank the following amateur astronomers for their contributions to the visible‐light imaging: Christopher Go, Tiziano Olivetti, Isao Miyazaki, and Hans‐Jorg Mettig. This investigation is based on data acquired at (i) the Infrared Telescope Facility, operated by the University of Hawaii under cooperative agreement NNX‐08AE38A with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Science Mission Directorate, Planetary Astronomy Program, and (ii) the ESO Very Large Telescope Paranal UT3/Melipal Observatory (program IDs 098.C‐0681 and 099.C‐0612). We recognize the significant cultural role of Maunakea within the indigenous Hawaiian community, and we appreciate the opportunity to conduct our Jupiter observations from this revered site.