Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003georl..30e..25s&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 5, pp. 25-1, CiteID 1221, DOI 10.1029/2002GL016031
Physics
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Planetology: Fluid Planets: Interactions With Particles And Fields, Planetology: Fluid Planets: Ionospheres (2459), Planetology: Solar System Objects: Jupiter, Ionosphere: Ionospheric Dynamics, Ionosphere: Planetary Ionospheres (5435, 5729, 6026, 6027, 6028)
Scientific paper
Recent analysis of high-resolution spectra of Doppler-shifted H3+ emission from the auroral/polar regions of Jupiter revealed a complex wind system, with a persistent auroral electrojet and strong anti-sunward flows in a region of lesser intensity centred around the magnetic pole [Stallard et al., 2001]. This region, which we have called the Dark Polar Region (DPR), is re-investigated, transforming the observed line-of-sight velocities into a frame of reference fixed with respect to the magnetic pole. The DPR is shown to include a region essentially stagnant in this frame of reference (the f-DPR). We identify it as a region coupled to open magnetotail field lines. There is also a transition region in which the ion velocity returns to corotation (the r-DPR).
Bunce Emma J.
Cowley Stan W. H.
Miller Samantha
Stallard Tom S.
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