Evidence for an Io plasma torus influence on high-latitude Jovian radio emission
| Autor: | Michael E. Brown, M. L. Kaiser, M. D. Desch |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Atmospheric Science Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Soil Science Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics Aquatic Science Oceanography Jovian Geochemistry and Petrology Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Emission spectrum Earth-Surface Processes Water Science and Technology Physics Ecology Waves in plasmas Paleontology Astronomy Forestry Torus Solar physics Wavelength Geophysics Space and Planetary Science Physics::Space Physics Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Radio astronomy |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. 101:13-18 |
| ISSN: | 0148-0227 |
| DOI: | 10.1029/95ja02389 |
| Popis: | We report the discovery with the Ulysses unified radio and plasma wave (URAP) instrument of features in the Jovian hectometer (HOM) wavelength radio emission spectrum which recur with a period about 2–4% longer than the Jovian System III rotation period. We conclude that the auroral HOM emissions are periodically blocked from “view” by regions in the torus of higher than average density and that these regions rotate more slowly than System III and persist for considerable intervals of time. We have reexamined the Voyager planetary radio astronomy (PRA) data taken during the flybys in 1979 and have found similar features in the HOM spectrum. Contemporaneous observations by Brown (1994) show an [SII] emission line enhancement in the Io plasma torus that rotates more slowly than System III by the same amount as the HOM feature. |
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