Variability of Jupiter's IR H3+ aurorae during Juno approach
Moore, L., O'Donoghue, J. Full text not archived in this repository. It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work. See Guidance on citing. To link to this item DOI: 10.1002/2017GL073156 Abstract/SummaryWe present ground-based observations of Jupiter’s H3+ aurorae over four nights in April 2016while the Juno spacecraft was monitoring the upstream interplanetary magnetic field. High-precisionmaps of auroral H3+ densities, temperatures, and radiances reveal significant variabilities in those parameters,with regions of enhanced density and emission accompanied by reduced temperature. Juno magnetometerdata, combined with solar wind propagation models, suggest that a shock may have impacted Jupiter inthe days preceding the observation interval but that the solar wind was quiescent thereafter. Auroral H3+ temperatures reveal a downward temporal trend, consistent with a slowly cooling upper atmosphere, such asmight follow a period of shock recovery. The brightest H3+ emissions are from the end of the period, 23 April.A lack of definitive signatures in the upstream interplanetary magnetic field lends supporting evidence tothe possibility that this brightening event may have been driven by internal magnetospheric processes.
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