Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 1988
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988apj...335..976c&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 335, Dec. 15, 1988, p. 976-985. Research supported by the Observatoire de P
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Jupiter (Planet), Lasing, Planetary Radiation, Radio Emission, Decametric Waves, Kilometric Waves, Laser Modes, Radio Auroras
Scientific paper
Like the comparable AKR radio emissions from earth's magnetosphere, the well-known decametric radio S-bursts from Jupiter, observed in France and Australia at frequencies from 10 to 26 MHz, have been found to exhibit equally spaced discrete spectral components which can be attributed to the adjacent longitudinal oscillation modes of natural radio lasers. Implying sizes of only a few kilometers for the individual radio lasers producing the S-bursts, the frequency spacing of these modes was roughly constant with frequency and about 30 to 50 kHz. Their corresponding temporal spacings, however, varied inversely proportional to the observing frequency, suggesting that the radio lasers producing the S-bursts were expanding uniformly at a rate of about 4 km/s. Presumably caused by the projected motion of Io with respect to the planet, this expansion of the S-burst radio lasers would account for the downward frequency drifts of the S-bursts without the energetic electron bunches which have heretofore always been assumed necessary to account for such behavior.
Calvert Wesley
Ellis R. A. G.
Leblanc Yolanda
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