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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 45, Issue 3, Pages 1277-1285Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL076901
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Jupiter; aurora; Juno; energetic particles; magnetosphere
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- NASA
- Southwest Research Institute
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Two new Juno-observed particle features of Jupiter's main aurora demonstrate substantial diversity of processes generating Jupiter's mysterious auroral emissions. It was previously speculated that sometimes-observed potential-driven aurora (up to 400 kV) can turn into broadband stochastic acceleration (dominating at Jupiter) by means of instability. Here direct evidence for such a process is revealed with a mono-energetic electron inverted-V rising in energy to 200 keV, transforming into a region of broadband acceleration with downward energy fluxes tripling to 3,000 mW/m(2), and then transforming back into a mono-energetic structure ramping down from 200 keV. But a second feature of interest observed nearby is unlikely to have operated in the same way. Here a downward accelerated proton inverted-V, with inferred potentials to 300-400kV, occurred simultaneously with downward accelerated broadband electrons with downward energy fluxes as high as any observed (similar to 3,000 mW/m(2)). This latter feature has no known precedent with Earth auroral observations.
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