Energetic particles and acceleration regions over Jupiter's polar cap and main aurora: A broad overview

BH Mauk, G Clark, GR Gladstone… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Previous Juno mission event studies revealed powerful electron and ion acceleration, to
100s of kiloelectron volts and higher, at low altitudes over Jupiter's main aurora and polar …

Multi-scale simulations of particle acceleration in astrophysical systems

A Marcowith, G Ferrand, M Grech, Z Meliani… - Living Reviews in …, 2020 - Springer
This review aims at providing an up-to-date status and a general introduction to the subject
of the numerical study of energetic particle acceleration and transport in turbulent …

Discrete and broadband electron acceleration in Jupiter's powerful aurora

BH Mauk, DK Haggerty, C Paranicas, G Clark… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The most intense auroral emissions from Earth's polar regions, called discrete for their
sharply defined spatial configurations, are generated by a process involving coherent …

Wave‐particle interaction of Alfvén waves in Jupiter's magnetosphere: Auroral and magnetospheric particle acceleration

J Saur, S Janser, A Schreiner, G Clark… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate spatial and temporal scales at which wave‐particle interaction of Alfvén
waves occurs in Jupiter's magnetosphere. We consider electrons, protons, and oxygen ions …

Jupiter's low‐altitude auroral zones: Fields, particles, plasma waves, and density depletions

AH Sulaiman, BH Mauk, JR Szalay… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The Juno spacecraft's polar orbits have enabled direct sampling of Jupiter's low‐altitude
auroral field lines. While various data sets have identified unique features over Jupiter's …

How Jupiter's unusual magnetospheric topology structures its aurora

B Zhang, PA Delamere, Z Yao, B Bonfond, D Lin… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Jupiter's bright persistent polar aurora and Earth's dark polar region indicate that the planets'
magnetospheric topologies are very different. High-resolution global simulations show that …

Wave‐particle interactions associated with Io's auroral footprint: Evidence of Alfvén, ion cyclotron, and whistler modes

AH Sulaiman, GB Hospodarsky… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The electrodynamic coupling between Io and Jupiter gives rise to wave‐particle interactions
across multiple spatial scales. Here we report observations during Juno's 12th perijove (PJ) …

Jovian auroral electron precipitation budget—A statistical analysis of diffuse, mono‐energetic, and broadband auroral electron distributions

A Salveter, J Saur, G Clark… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent observations by the Juno spacecraft have shown that electrons contributing to
Jupiter's main auroral emission appear to be frequently characterized by broadband …

Alfvénic fluctuations associated with Jupiter's auroral emissions

DJ Gershman, JEP Connerney… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Alfvén wave mode transmits field‐aligned currents and large‐scale turbulence
throughout Jupiter's magnetosphere. Magnetometer data from the Juno spacecraft have …

Diverse electron and ion acceleration characteristics observed over Jupiter's main aurora

BH Mauk, DK Haggerty, C Paranicas… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Two new Juno‐observed particle features of Jupiter's main aurora demonstrate substantial
diversity of processes generating Jupiter's mysterious auroral emissions. It was previously …