Doppler line profiles measurement of the Jovian Lyman Alpha emission with OAO-C

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Jun 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982uta..reptq....b&link_type=abstract

Final Technical Report Texas Univ., Austin. Dept. of Astronomy.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Atmospheric Composition, Auroral Irradiation, Hydrogen, Jupiter Atmosphere, Lyman Alpha Radiation, Io, Oao 3, Saturn Atmosphere, Toroidal Plasmas, Ultraviolet Spectra, Voyager Project

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Observation of Jupiter made with the high resolution ultraviolet spectrometer of the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory copernicus in April and May, 1980, yield a Jovian Lyman alpha emission intensity of 7 + or 2.5 RR. This indicates a decrease by about a factor of two since the Voyager ultraviolet spectrometer measurements, nearly a year earlier. An unusually high column abundance of hydrogen atoms above the methane homopause at the Voyager epoch is indicated. Since the auroral charged particle bombardment of molecular hydrogen is expected to contribute significantly to the global population of the hydrogen atoms, it is suggested that at the time of the Voyager Jupiter encounter unusually high auroral activity existed, perhaps d to the high concentration of the Io plasma torus. The temporal variation of the Saturn lyman alpha emission, when contrasted with the Jovian data, reveals that the auroral processes are not nearly as important in determining the Saturn Lyman alpha intensity in the nonauroral region.

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