Evidence for accelerated electrons upstream from Jupiter's bow shock: Ulysses results

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Several transient increases of electrons with energies in the range 40-100 keV have been detected upstream and immediately downstream from the Jovian bow shock (and only in these regions), by instruments on the Ulysses spacecraft during February 1992. The energy spectra of these electrons differ markedly from the energy spectrum of the trapped magnetospheric electrons measured by the same instrument. Two populations of the upstream electrons were identified. Type I electrons appear at times when the direction of the interplanetary magnetic field at the spacecraft could have been tangent to the Jovian bow shock surface thus paralleling, for the first time at another planetary bow shock, the rather well understood situation at Earth's bow shock. Type II electrons have the same energy spectrum as Type I electrons, but are not so clearly associated with the tangent field-line condition. They occur at high southerly latitudes only while the Type I electrons are detected both on the inbound and outbound passages. Type II electrons have never been reported at the Earth's bow shock or any other planetary bow shock. Under the assumption that the field line that goes through Ulysses connects to the bow shock in a straight line, two possible explanations for the Type II electrons may be: (1) very large distortions of the bow shock surface, perhaps caused by deformations of the magnetopause, may permit the tangent condition; and (2) upstream electrons are preferentially, but not necessarily, accelerated when the IMF is tangent to the bow-shock surface.

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