[en] We present here for the first time a Lyman-alpha image of the north polar region of Jupiter obtained with the Faint Object Camera on board the Hubble Space Telescope a few hours after the encounter of the ULYSSES spacecraft with Jupiter. The presence of high latitude regions of enhanced emission is clearly observed. A comparison with the location of the 'UVS oval', the Io (L = 6) and high-latitude field-line footprints shows that the best agreement is obtained with the L not less than 15 footprint and the UVS oval which are close to each other for the particular longitudinal sector observed. These two L-shells correspond to two possible sources of precipitation: particles originating respectively from the region of the plasma torus of Io in a distorted magnetic field or particles from the distant magnetosphere by analogy with the terrestrial aurora.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Dols, V.; Liege Univ., Belgium
Gérard, Jean-Claude ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Labo de physique atmosphérique et planétaire (LPAP)
Paresce, F.; Space Telescope Science Inst., Baltimore, MD
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