EGU25-21868, updated on 15 Mar 2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-21868
EGU General Assembly 2025
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Poster | Friday, 02 May, 10:45–12:30 (CEST), Display time Friday, 02 May, 08:30–12:30
 
Hall X4, X4.183
A view from the other side: complementary observations of the Jovian UV aurorae from Hubble and Juno
Bertrand Bonfond1, Alessandro Moirano1, Bilal Benmahi1, Denis Grodent1, Linus Head1, Guillaume Sicorello1, Jean-Claude Gérard1, Thomas Greathouse2, Randy Glastone2, Rohini Giles2, Joshua Kammer, Vincent Hue3, Zhonghua Yao5, Jonathan Nichols4, Sarah Badman6, and John Clarke7
Bertrand Bonfond et al.
  • 1University of Liege, Belgium
  • 2SouthWest Research Institute, San Antonio, USA
  • 3Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), France
  • 4University of Leicester, UK
  • 5Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
  • 6Lancaster University, UK
  • 7Boston University, USA

Starting from the Jupiter approach phase in early 2016, several Hubble Space Telescope observation campaigns dedicated to the UV aurorae have been executed in order to support the Juno mission. For example, these images have been used to study the auroral response to solar wind shocks measured by Juno's in situ instruments, or to identify the specific auroral morphologies associated with a compressed magnetosphere. In this presentation, we will focus on the images acquired simultaneously from Juno's UV spectrograph on one hand and from the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on the other hand, each one looking at a different hemisphere. While the overall morphology is similar, variations of relative brightness between conjugate features, or shifts in the timing of some flares, are observed and are interpreted as signatures of distinct electron acceleration mechanisms or of magnetic field anomalies. Such combined observations thus provide unique insights into the asymmetries of the Jovian magnetosphere and its coupling with the ionosphere and upper atmosphere.

How to cite: Bonfond, B., Moirano, A., Benmahi, B., Grodent, D., Head, L., Sicorello, G., Gérard, J.-C., Greathouse, T., Glastone, R., Giles, R., Kammer, J., Hue, V., Yao, Z., Nichols, J., Badman, S., and Clarke, J.: A view from the other side: complementary observations of the Jovian UV aurorae from Hubble and Juno, EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-21868, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-21868, 2025.