Neptune radio emission in dipole and multipole magnetic fields

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Jul 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995jgr...10012117s&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 100, no. A7, p. 12,117-12,126

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Magnetic Dipoles, Magnetic Poles, Neptune (Planet), Planetary Magnetic Fields, Radio Emission, Circular Polarization, Time Series Analysis

Scientific paper

We study Neptune's smooth radio emission in two ways: we simulate the observations and we then consider the radio effects of Neptune's magnetic multipoles. A procedure to deduce the characteristics of radio sources observed by the Planetary Radio Astronomy experiment minimizes limiting assumptions and maximizes use of the data, including quantitative measurement of circular polarization. Study of specific sources simulates time variation of intensity and apparent polarization of their integrated emission over an extended time period. The method is applied to Neptune smooth recurrent emission (SRE). Time series are modeled with both broad and beamed emission patterns, and at two frequencies which exhibit different time variation of polarization. These dipole-based results are overturned by consideration of more complex models of Neptune's magnetic field. Any smooth emission from the anticipated auroral radio source is weak and briefly observed. Dominant SRE originates complex fields at midlatitude. Possible SRE source locations overlap that of 'high-latitude' emission (HLE) between +(out) and -(in) quadrupoles. This is the first identification of multipolar magnetic structure with a major source of planetary radio emission.

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