Physics
Scientific paper
Jul 1994
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HST Proposal ID #5757
Physics
Hst Proposal Id #5757 Solar System
Scientific paper
Recent IUE observations of the H Ly alpha emission line profilefrom Jupiter's dayglow and aurora reveal a substantial line broadening,implying that the observed high brightness is due to resonantscattering of solar emission with a broad line rather than chargedparticle excitation. This may reflect highly energetic processesproducing a 5-10 km/sec suprathermal population of H atoms in Jupiter'supper atmosphere, which in turn may be related to the unresolved questionof the high exospheric temperatures of 400-1200 K detected on all 4 giantplanets during the Voyager encounters. It is clear that if the bright HLy alpha emissions from the outer planets are due mainly to resonantscattering of solar and interplanetary emissions, as observedon Jupiter and Saturn from long term correlations with the solarLy alpha flux, then the lines from all 4 planets must be broad toexplain the observed high albedos. The H Ly alpha lineshapes providea discriminant between the processes of resonant scattering andcharged particle excitation. We propose to obtain high signal to noiseH Ly alpha line profile measurements from Saturn, Uranus, and Neptuneto resolve the questions about the excitation processes for the brightairglow emissions.SATURN PART ONLY - NEPTUNE AND URANUS IN ORIGIAL PROP (5414).
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