EGU2020-19055
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-19055
EGU General Assembly 2020
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New remote radio observations of Jupiter by Parker Solar Probe

Alain Lecacheux1, Stuart D. Bale2, Milan Maksimovic1, and Marc Pulupa3
Alain Lecacheux et al.
  • 1CNRS - Observatoire de Paris, LESIA, Meudon, France
  • 2Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  • 3Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA

The FIELDS/RFS experiment aboard the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft, in orbit around the Sun, is able to detect and remotely study low frequency radio emissions from Jupiter. Accurate measurements of the intensity and polarisation of those emissions (mainly the HOM/DAM components) were obtained throughout years 2018 and 2019. They are compared to similar ones, obtained 20 years ago, during Cassini’s remote flyby of Jupiter. A particular emphasis is brought on the so-called “attenuation bands” phenomenon, - a well-defined intensity extinction/enhancement feature modulating the HOM dynamic spectrum -, which likely results from the radiation propagating to the observer through some permanent or long lived plasma structure (not firmly identified so far) lying in the rotating Jovian inner magnetosphere.

How to cite: Lecacheux, A., Bale, S. D., Maksimovic, M., and Pulupa, M.: New remote radio observations of Jupiter by Parker Solar Probe, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-19055, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-19055, 2020