[en] Abstract The relationship between electron energy flux and the characteristic energy of electron distributions in the main auroral loss cone bridges the gap between predictions made by theory and measurements just recently available from Juno. For decades such relationships have been inferred from remote sensing observations of the Jovian aurora, primarily from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), but also more recently from Hisaki. However, to infer these quantities, remote sensing techniques had to assume properties of the Jovian atmospheric structure – leading to uncertainties in their profile. Juno's arrival and subsequent auroral passes have allowed us to obtain these relationships unambiguously for the first time, when the spacecraft passes through the auroral acceleration region. Using Juno/JEDI, an energetic particle instrument, we present these relationships for the 30 keV to 1 MeV electron population. Observations presented here show that the electron energy flux in the loss cone is a non-linear function of the characteristic or mean electron energy and supports both the predictions from Knight [1973] and MHD turbulence acceleration theories [e.g.,Saur et al., 2003]. Finally, we compare the in situ analyses of Juno with remote Hisaki observations and use them to help constrain Jupiter's atmospheric profile. We find a possible solution that provides the best agreement between these datasets is an atmospheric profile that more efficiently transports the hydrocarbons to higher altitudes. If this is correct, it supports the previously published idea [e.g., Parkinson et al. 2006] that precipitating electrons increase the hydrocarbon eddy diffusion coefficients in the auroral regions.
Research center :
STAR - Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research - ULiège
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Clark, G.
Tao, C.
Mauk, B. H.
Nichols, J.
Saur, J.
Bunce, E. J.
Allegrini, F.
Gladstone, R.
Bagenal, F.
Bolton, S.
Bonfond, Bertrand ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Labo de physique atmosphérique et planétaire (LPAP)
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE] BELSPO - SPP Politique scientifique - Service Public Fédéral de Programmation Politique scientifique
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