Search for effects of Comet S-L 9 fragment impacts on low radio frequency emission from Jupiter

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Jan 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994em%26p...66...31c&link_type=abstract

Earth, Moon, and Planets (ISSN 0167-9295), vol. 66, no. 1, p. 31-48

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Decametric Waves, Jupiter (Planet), Radiant Flux Density, Radio Emission, Radio Frequencies, Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet, Astronomical Observatories, Cometary Collisions, Radiation, Radiation Sources

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Decametric radio observations of Jupiter were made before, during, and after the impacts of the fragments of the comet S-L 9 with the planet, from the University of Florida Radio Observatory, the Maipu Radio Astronomy Observatory of the University of Chile, and the Owens Valley Radio Observatory of the California Institute of Technology. The decametric radiation was monitored at frequencies from 16.7 to 32 MHz. The minimum detectable flux densities were on the order of 30 kJy, except for that of the large 26.3 MHz array in Florida, which was about 1 kJy. There was no significant enhancement or suppression of the decametric L-burst or S-burst emission with respect to normal activity patterns that might be attributed to the fragment entries. A burst of left-hand elliptically polarized radiation having a considerably longer duration than an L-burst was observed almost simultaneously with the impact of the large fragment Q2, and another with right-hand elliptical polarization was observed simultaneously with Q1. We consider the possibility that these two bursts were emitted just above the local electron cyclotron frequencies from the southern and northern ends, respectively, of magnetic flux tubes that had been excited in some way by the proximity of fragments Q2 and Q1. A search was conducted for possible comet-enhanced Jovian synchrotron radiation at 45 MHz using a large dipole antenna array at the observatory in Chile.

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