Simulation of Io's Auroral Emission: Constraints on the Atmosphere in Eclipse

• Published in: Icarus
• Main Authors: Roth, Lorenz, Saur, Joachim, Retherford, Kurt D., Strobel, Darrell F., Spencer, John R.
• Other Authors: University of Cologne, Department of Space Studies Boulder, Southwest Research Institute Boulder (SwRI), Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2011
• Subjects: Io; Jupiter; satellites; Atmospheres; structure; [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; North Pole; Hubble
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00786874; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00786874/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00786874/file/PEER_stage2_10.1016%252Fj.icarus.2011.05.014.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2011.05.014

International audience We study the morphology of Io's aurora by comparing simulation results of a three-dimensional (3D) two-fluid plasma model to observations by the high-resolution Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on-board the New Horizons spacecraft and by the Hubble Space Telescope...