Annales Geophysicae
Annales Geophysicae
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Articles | Volume 33, issue 10
Articles | Volume 33, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-33-1211-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-33-1211-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 33, issue 10
Regular paper
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01 Oct 2015
Regular paper |  | 01 Oct 2015

The far-ultraviolet main auroral emission at Jupiter – Part 2: Vertical emission profile

B. Bonfond, J. Gustin, J.-C. Gérard, D. Grodent, A. Radioti, B. Palmaerts, S. V. Badman, K. K. Khurana, and C. Tao

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Early models of the main auroral emission at Jupiter assumed axisymmetry, but significant local time variability is obvious on any image of the Jovian aurorae. Here we use far-UV images from the Hubble Space Telescope to further characterize these variations on a statistical basis. We show that the dusk side sector is ~3 times brighter than the dawn side, and we suggest that such an asymmetry could be the result of a partial ring current in the nightside magnetosphere.
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