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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ballester, Gilda E.
• Clarke, John T.
• Trauger, John T.
• Harris, Walter M.
• Stapelfeldt, Karl R.
• Crisp, David
• Evans, Robin W.
• Burgh, Eric B.
• Burrows, Christopher J.
• Casertano, Stefano
• Gallagher, John S.
• Griffiths, Richard E.
• Hester, J. Jeff
• Hoessel, John G.
• Holtzman, Jon A.
• Krist, John E.
• Meadows, Vikki
• Mould, Jeremy R.
• Sahai, Raghvendra
• Scowen, Paul A.
• Watson, Alan M.
• Westphal, James A.

Titel

Time-Resolved Observations of Jupiter's Far-Ultraviolet Aurora

Ist Teil von

• Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 1996-10, Vol.274 (5286), p.409-413

Ort / Verlag

Washington: American Society for the Advancement of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

1996

Quelle

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Simultaneous imaging and spectroscopic observations of Jupiter's far-ultraviolet aurora covering half a jovian rotation were made on 31 May 1994. The Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 images revealed dramatic and rapidly changing auroral features, including discrete longitudinal structures along the auroral ovals, with variable contrast; a poleward offset in a north oval sector, showing equatorward motion near dusk; emissions polewards of the ovals, apparently co-rotating; and a bright event developing near the dawn limb. Viewing geometry effects explain the rotational intensity modulation observed by the International Ultraviolet Explorer, without intrinsic longitudinal asymmetries.