Publications and communications of Alessandro Moirano

Satoh, S., Hue, V., Tsuchiya, F., Sakai, S., Kasaba, Y., Kita, H., Kagitani, M., Moirano, A., Bonfond, B., Misawa, H., & Yasuda, R. (01 February 2026). Dawn–Dusk Asymmetry of the Io Plasma Torus Derived from Io’s Auroral Footprints Observed by Juno-UVS. Planetary Science Journal, 7 (2), 34. doi:10.3847/psj/ae3678

Moirano, A., Bonfond, B., Sicorello, G., Vinesse, J., Szalay, J., Hue, V., Benmahi, B., Grodent, D., Head, L. A., -C Gérard, J., Greathouse, T. K., Gladstone, G. R., Giles, R. S., & Versteeg, M. H. (2026). The vertical profile of the northern Io footprint auroral emission in the far-ultraviolet from Juno. Variability and energy spectrum of the precipitating electrons. Astronomy and Astrophysics. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202557463

Benmahi, B., Hue, V., Vorbuger, A., Benne, B., Hubert, B., Leblanc, F., Jia, X., Gladstone, G. R., Bonfond, B., Bouquet, A., Collet, B., Louis, C. K., Barthelemy, M., Moirano, A., Blanc, M., Waite, J. H., Gronoff, G., Grodent, D., Giles, R. S., ... Molyneux, P. (November 2025). Precipitating electron properties of Ganymede’s aurora retrieved from Juno/UVS observations during PJ34. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 703, 260. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202556996

Sicorello, G., Grodent, D., Bonfond, B., Gérard, J.-C., Benmahi, B., Salveter, A., Moirano, A., Head, L. A., Vinesse, J., Greathouse, T., Gladstone, G. R., & Barthélémy, M. (November 2025). The Pedersen and Hall conductances in the Jovian polar regions: New maps based on a broadband electron energy distribution. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 703, 69. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202556176

Moirano, A., Caruso, A., Mura, A., Bonfond, B., Gomez Casajus, L., Zannoni, M., Tortora, P., Sordini, R., Noschese, R., Cicchetti, A., & Hue, V. (30 June 2025). The Io plasma torus observed by Juno between 2016 and 2022. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 699, 53. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202453584

Masters, A., Modolo, R., Roussos, E., Krupp, N., Witasse, O., Vallat, C., Cecconi, B., Edberg, N. J. T., Futaana, Y., Galand, M., Heyner, D., Holmberg, M., Huybrighs, H., Jia, X., Khurana, K., Lamy, L., Roth, L., Sulaiman, A., Tortora, P., ... Zannoni, M. (March 2025). Magnetosphere and Plasma Science with the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. Space Science Reviews, 221 (2). doi:10.1007/s11214-025-01148-8

Mura, A., Moirano, A., Hue, V., Castagnoli, C., Migliorini, A., Altieri, F., Adriani, A., Cicchetti, A., Plainaki, C., Piccioni, G., Noschese, R., Sindoni, G., & Sordini, R. (February 2025). Vertical and Temporal H3+ Structure at the Auroral Footprint of Io. Planetary Science Journal, 6 (2), 49. doi:10.3847/PSJ/ada6aa

Benmahi, B., Hue, V., Leblanc, F., Benne, B., Hubert, B., Jia, X., Gladstone, R., Vorbuger, A., Bonfond, B., Collet, B., Louis, C., Barthelemy, M., Moirano, A., Blanc, M., Waite, J., Gronoff, G., Grodent, D., Lamy, L., Giles, R., ... Molyneux, P. (2025). Characterizing Precipitating Electrons in Ganymede's Auroras through Juno/UVS observations and Coupled Electron Transport and Radiative Transfer Models [Paper presentation]. Workshop on the Network for Ultraviolet Astronomy (NUVA) - 2025, Marseille, France.

Head, L. A., Grodent, D., Bonfond, B., Sulaiman, A., Moirano, A., Sicorello, G., Elliott, S., Vogt, M. F., Louis, C. K., Kruegler, N., Vinesse, J., & Greathouse, T. K. (2025). Jupiter's ultraviolet auroral bridge: the influence of the solar wind on polar auroral morphology. Astronomy and Astrophysics. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202554759

Moirano, A., Bonfond, B., Mura, A., Hue, V., Caruso, A., Benmahi, B., Grodent, D., Head, L. A., Gérard, J.-C., Sicorello, G., Greathouse, T., Gomez Casajus, L., Tortora, P., & Zannoni, M. (2025). Monitoring of Jupiter's magnetosphere with the moon-induced aurora during the Juno era [Paper presentation]. 4th Moon-Magnetosphere Interaction Workshop, Cologne, Germany.

Mura, A., Tosi, F., Zambon, F., Lopes, R. M. C., Mouginis-Mark, P. J., Becker, H., Filacchione, G., Migliorini, A., Hansen, C. J., Adriani, A., Altieri, F., Bolton, S., Cicchetti, A., Di Mico, E., Grassi, D., Noschese, R., Moirano, A., Pettine, M., Piccioni, G., ... Sindoni, G. (December 2024). Hot rings on Io observed by Juno/JIRAM. Communications Earth and Environment, 5 (1). doi:10.1038/s43247-024-01486-5

Benmahi, B., Bonfond, B., Benne, B., Hue, V., Grodent, D., Barthélemy, M., Sinclair, J. A., Moirano, A., Head, L. A., Gladstone, R., Gronoff, G., Sicorello, G., Simon Wedlund, C., Giles, R., & Greathouse, T. K. (27 September 2024). Auroral 3D structure retrieval from the Juno/UVS data. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 691, 91. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202451439

Grassi, D., Mura, A., Adriani, A., Sindoni, G., Atreya, S. K., Fletcher, L. N., Orton, G. S., Plainaki, C., Tosi, F., Biagiotti, F., Olivieri, A., Castagnoli, C., Aversa, E. D., Migliorini, A., Moirano, A., Noschese, R., Piccioni, G., Sordini, R., & Bolton, S. (August 2024). Jupiter’s Hotspots as observed by JIRAM-Juno: limb darkening in thermal infrared. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533 (2), 2185 - 2198. doi:10.1093/mnras/stae1858

Head, L. A., Bonfond, B., Moirano, A., Benmahi, B., Sicorello, G., Gérard, J.-C., Vogt, M. F., Hue, V., Greathouse, T., Gladstone, G. R., Yao, Z., & Grodent, D. (2024). Effect of magnetospheric conditions on the morphology of Jupiter's ultraviolet main auroral emission as observed by Juno-UVS. Astronomy and Astrophysics. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202450253

Moirano, A., Mura, A., Hue, V., Bonfond, B., Head, L. A., Connerney, J. E. P., Adriani, A., Altieri, F., Castagnoli, C., Cicchetti, A., Dinelli, B. M., Grassi, D., Migliorini, A., Moriconi, M. L., Noschese, R., Piccioni, G., Plainaki, C., Scarica, P., Sindoni, G., ... Zambon, F. (26 February 2024). The Infrared Auroral Footprint Tracks of Io, Europa and Ganymede at Jupiter Observed by Juno‐JIRAM. Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets, 129 (3). doi:10.1029/2023je008130

Moirano, A., Bonfond, B., Benmahi, B., Grodent, D., Head, L. A., Sicorello, G., Gérard, J.-C., Hue, V., & Greathouse, T. (2024). Energy deposition in Jupiter’s auroral regions: the vertical structure of Jupiter’s ultraviolet aurora observed by Juno-UVS [Poster presentation]. Magnetosphere of the Outer Planet2 Congress 2024.

Tosi, F., Mura, A., Cofano, A., Zambon, F., Glein, C. R., Ciarniello, M., Lunine, J. I., Piccioni, G., Plainaki, C., Sordini, R., Adriani, A., Bolton, S. J., Hansen, C. J., Nordheim, T. A., Moirano, A., Agostini, L., Altieri, F., Brooks, S. M., Cicchetti, A., ... Turrini, D. (2024). Salts and organics on Ganymede’s surface observed by the JIRAM spectrometer onboard Juno. Nature Astronomy, 8 (1), 82 - 93. doi:10.1038/s41550-023-02107-5

Moirano, A., Mura, A., Bonfond, B., Connerney, J. E. P., Dols, V., Grodent, D., Hue, V., Gérard, J.-C., Tosi, F., Migliorini, A., Adriani, A., Altieri, F., Castagnoli, C., Cicchetti, A., Dinelli, B. M., Grassi, D., Moriconi, M. L., Noschese, R., Piccioni, G., ... Zambon, F. (August 2023). Variability of the Auroral Footprint of Io Detected by Juno‐JIRAM and Modeling of the Io Plasma Torus. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 128 (8). doi:10.1029/2023ja031288

Hue, V., Gladstone, G. R., Louis, C. K., Greathouse, T. K., Bonfond, B., Szalay, J. R., Moirano, A., Giles, R. S., Kammer, J. A., Imai, M., Mura, A., Versteeg, M. H., Clark, G., Gérard, J.-C., Grodent, D., Rabia, J., Sulaiman, A. H., Bolton, S. J., & Connerney, J. E. P. (May 2023). The Io, Europa, and Ganymede Auroral Footprints at Jupiter in the Ultraviolet: Positions and Equatorial Lead Angles. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 128 (5). doi:10.1029/2023JA031363

Migliorini, A., Dinelli, B. M., Castagnoli, C., Moriconi, M. L., Altieri, F., Atreya, S., Adriani, A., Mura, A., Tosi, F., Moirano, A., Piccioni, G., Grassi, D., Sordini, R., Noschese, R., Cicchetti, A., Bolton, S. J., Sindoni, G., Plainaki, C., & Olivieri, A. (March 2023). First Observations of CH4 and H+3 Spatially Resolved Emission Layers at Jupiter Equator, as Seen by JIRAM/Juno. Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets, 128 (3). doi:10.1029/2022JE007509

Moirano, A., Mura, A., Caruso, A., Gomez Casajus, L., Tortora, P., & Zannoni, M. (2023). The Io Plasma Torus State during the Juno Mission: Constrains from the Radio Occultations and the Io Auroral Footprint [Poster presentation]. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, United States.

Hue, V., Szalay, J. R., Greathouse, T. K., Bonfond, B., Kotsiaros, S., Louis, C. K., Sulaiman, A. H., Clark, G., Allegrini, F., Gladstone, G. R., Paranicas, C., Versteeg, M. H., Mura, A., Moirano, A., Gershman, D. J., Bolton, S. J., Connerney, J. E. P., Davis, M. W., Ebert, R. W., ... Mauk, B. H. (05 April 2022). A Comprehensive Set of Juno In Situ and Remote Sensing Observations of the Ganymede Auroral Footprint. Geophysical Research Letters, 49 (7). doi:10.1029/2021gl096994

Connerney, J. E. P., Timmins, S., Oliversen, R. J., Espley, J. R., Joergensen, J. L., Kotsiaros, S., Joergensen, P. S., Merayo, J. M. G., Herceg, M., Bloxham, J., Moore, K. M., Mura, A., Moirano, A., Bolton, S. J., & Levin, S. M. (February 2022). A New Model of Jupiter's Magnetic Field at the Completion of Juno's Prime Mission. Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets, 127 (2). doi:10.1029/2021JE007055

Moirano, A., & Mura, A. (2022). Temporal variability of the Io-induced aurorae on Jupiter: a proxy for plasma variations in the magnetosphere [Paper presentation]. MOP Congress, Liège, Belgium.

Moirano, A., Gomez Casajus, L., Zannoni, M., Durante, D., & Tortora, P. (October 2021). Morphology of the Io Plasma Torus From Juno Radio Occultations. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 126 (10). doi:10.1029/2021JA029190

Moirano, A. (2021). Small scale morphology of the footprint tails of Io, Europa and Ganymede observed by JIRAM [Poster presentation]. MOP Congress.

Moirano, A., Mura, A., Adriani, A., Dols, V., Bonfond, B., Waite, J. H., Hue, V., Szalay, J. R., Sulaiman, A. H., Dinelli, B. M., Tosi, F., Altieri, F., Cicchetti, A., Filacchione, G., Grassi, D., Migliorini, A., Moriconi, M. L., Noschese, R., Piccioni, G., ... Bolton, S. J. (2021). Morphology of the Auroral Tail of Io, Europa, and Ganymede From JIRAM L-Band Imager. Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 126 (9), 29450. doi:10.1029/2021JA029450

Mura, А., Adriani, A., Tosi, F., Scarica, P., Moirano, A., & Zambon, F. (2021). INFRARED OBSERVATIONS OF JUPITER'S AURORAE, ATMOSPHERE AND MOONS [Paper presentation]. 12th Moscow solar system symposium, Moscow, Russia.

Moirano, A., Mura, A., Adriani, A., Sordini, R., Migliorini, A., Zambon, F., Tosi, F., Altieri, F., Dinelli, B., Plainaki, C., Cicchetti, A., & Noschese, R. (2020). Observations of small scale structures in the footprint of the Galilean satellites by JIRAM [Paper presentation]. AGU Fall Meeting.

Zannoni, M., Moirano, A., Gomez Casajus, L., Tortora, P., Durante, D., & Iess, L. (2020). Modelling the electron density distribution in the Io Plasma Torus using Juno radio occultations [Poster presentation]. EGU General Assembly.

Moirano, A., Zannoni, M., Luis, A., Gomez, C., Tortora, P., Withers, P., Phipps, P., Buccino, D., & Oudrhiri, K. (2019). Morphology of the Io Plasma Torus inferred from Dual Uplink-Dual Downlink calibration during Juno mission [Poster presentation]. EPSC-DPS, Geneva, Switzerland.

Zannoni, M., Gomez, L., Moirano, A., Tortora, P., Phipps, P., Whiters, P., Buccino, D., Oudrhiri, K., Durante, D., & Iess, L. (2019). Observations of the Io Plasma Torus with Juno radio science experiment [Poster presentation]. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.