[en] Juno is currently on an elliptical polar orbit around Jupiter, since July 2016, and has successfully gathered data during 10 perijoves sequences. Juno offers a fantastic opportunity to study Jupiter's magnetosphere and its spectacular auroras, which can be seen as a window screen of the entire Jovian magnetosphere. Juno not only allows for the first time to perform in-situ measurements of the particles while looking at their corresponding auroral emissions, it also gives access to unprecedented observing geometries for these emissions. The Juno Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) is a UV spectrograph with a bandpass that spans 70 to 205 nm and is designed to characterize Jupiter's UV emissions. In this talk, we present an overview of Juno-UVS operations and summarize the main findings obtained after 11 perijoves. We present UV images and color ratio maps of both the northern and southern auroras of Jupiter and present a comparison with simultaneous UV-observations from the ongoing Hubble campaign supporting Juno. We discuss how the observed features evolve over a wide range of timescales utilizing data from the first perijove (PJ1, August, 27th 2016) up until PJ11 (February, 7th 2017).
Research Center/Unit :
STAR - Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research - ULiège
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Hue, V.
Gladstone, G. R.
Greathouse, T. K.
Versteeg, M.
Bonfond, Bertrand ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Labo de physique atmosphérique et planétaire (LPAP)
Davis, M. W.
Kammer, J.
Grodent, Denis ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Labo de physique atmosphérique et planétaire (LPAP)
Gérard, Jean-Claude ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO)
Bolton, S. J.
Levin, S.
Connerney, J. E. P.
Language :
English
Title :
Juno Ultraviolet Spectrograph Observations of Jupiter's Aurora