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Alternating North-South Brightness Ratio of Ganymede's Auroral Ovals: Hubble Space Telescope Observations Around the Juno PJ34 Flyby
Univ Cologne, Inst Geophys & Meteorol, Cologne, Germany..
Univ Cologne, Inst Geophys & Meteorol, Cologne, Germany..
Univ Cologne, Inst Geophys & Meteorol, Cologne, Germany..
Univ Cologne, Inst Geophys & Meteorol, Cologne, Germany..
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2022 (English)In: Geophysical Research Letters, ISSN 0094-8276, E-ISSN 1944-8007, Vol. 49, no 23, article id e2022GL098600Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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We report results of Hubble Space Telescope observations from Ganymede's orbitally trailing side which were taken around the flyby of the Juno spacecraft on 7 June 2021. We find that Ganymede's northern and southern auroral ovals alternate in brightness such that the oval facing Jupiter's magnetospheric plasma sheet is brighter than the other one. This suggests that the generator that powers Ganymede's aurora is the momentum of the Jovian plasma sheet north and south of Ganymede's magnetosphere. Magnetic coupling of Ganymede to the plasma sheet above and below the moon causes asymmetric magnetic stresses and electromagnetic energy fluxes ultimately powering the auroral acceleration process. No clear statistically significant timevariability of the auroral emission on short time scales of 100s could be resolved. We show that electron energy fluxes of several tens of mW m(-2) are required for its OI 1,356 angstrom emission making Ganymede a very poor auroral emitter.

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American Geophysical Union (AGU) , 2022. Vol. 49, no 23, article id e2022GL098600
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Ganymede, auroral ovals, Hubble Space Telescope, Juno spacecraft
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Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-324490DOI: 10.1029/2022GL098600ISI: 000928052000069Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85144245116OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-324490DiVA, id: diva2:1742633
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