[en] Jupiter's UV aurorae have been observed extensively for the last twenty years using the Hubble Space Telescope and the infrared aurorae have been investigated using ground-based telescope observations. The two wavelength regimes complement each other; the UV is a tracer of inputs from the magnetosphere while the infrared emissions from the H3+ molecular ion show how the ionosphere responds to those inputs. Between 1995 and 2000 Spectroscopic, J.E.P Connerney & T. Satoh carried out observations with the NSFCAM imaging instrument at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility. Results from this data set have been published, although the entire data set has not been examined and there has been only limited comparison with the UV. We reanalyze this data set in order to statistically characterize the infrared aurora and compare with the UV. Here we present a detailed study of simultaneous and near-simultaneous observations of the UV (STIS instrument on HST) and infrared northern aurorae made on July 26, 1998 and December 16, 2000. The comparative study addresses the main oval emissions, satellite footprints, and polar aurorae. M. Lystrup is supported by an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship under award AST-0802021.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Lystrup, Makenzie B
Radioti, Aikaterini ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Labo de physique atmosphérique et planétaire (LPAP)
Bonfond, Bertrand ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Labo de physique atmosphérique et planétaire (LPAP)
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