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The morphology of the north Jovian ultraviolet aurora observed with the Hubble Space Telescope
Gérard, Jean-Claude; Dols, Vincent; Prange, Renee et al.
1994In Planetary and Space Science, 42, p. 905-917
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Keywords :
ASTRONOMICAL MODELS; AURORAS; JUPITER (PLANET); MORPHOLOGY; PLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS; POLAR REGIONS; ULTRAVIOLET ASTRONOMY; ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; CAMERAS; HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE; HYDROGEN; IUE; LYMAN SPECTRA; MAGNETIC FIELD CONFIGURATIONS; VOYAGER PROJECT
Abstract :
[en] A series of six images covering a complete rotation of the north polar region of Jupiter were obtained in February 1993 with the Faint Object Camera on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). These images provide the first global picture of the morphology of the Jovian ultraviolet aurora observed from Earth orbit. The camera passband was centered near 153 nm, a region dominated by the H2 Lyman bands and continuum. The successive exposures, taken approximately 90 min apart, are used to construct a polar view of the auroral zone. It is found that the auroral emissions do not exactly follow the footprint of a constant L-shell although the size of the oval and its location agree best with the footprints of the approximately equal to 30 R[SUB]J[/SUB] field line in the GSFC O6 model of the Jovian magnetic field. The displacement between the observed auroral zone and the theoretical oval may indicate a possible distortion of the Jovian magnetic field lines near the surface. A comparison with two images at the same wavelength obtained 8 months earlier shows that the main morphological features are persistent, in spite of changes in the detailed emission distribution. Small scale features with characteristic sizes of approximately 1000 km are observed along the auroral oval. The change of morphology observed as a function of the System 3 longitude appears as a persistent characteristic of the morphology of the north polar aurora.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Gérard, Jean-Claude  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Labo de physique atmosphérique et planétaire (LPAP)
Dols, Vincent;  Universite de Liege, Liege, Belgium
Prange, Renee;  Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France
Paresce, Francesco;  Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France
Language :
English
Title :
The morphology of the north Jovian ultraviolet aurora observed with the Hubble Space Telescope
Publication date :
01 November 1994
Journal title :
Planetary and Space Science
ISSN :
0032-0633
Publisher :
Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science, Oxford, United Kingdom
Volume :
42
Pages :
905-917
Peer reviewed :
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