| PROPOSAL OVERVIEW | |
| Proposal Title | Is X-ray Aurora Produced by Magnetic Unloading? |
| Proposal Category | Stars, White Dwarfs, Solar System and Exoplanets |
| Proposal Type | LARGE PROGRAM |
| Proposal Id | 084281 |
| Number of Observations | 4 |
| Total exposure time (ks) | 532 |
| PI DETAILS | |
| PI | Dr William Dunn |
| Institute | MSSL University College London |
| Country | UNITED KINGDOM |
| CO-INVESTIGATORS | ||
| Name | Country | |
| G. Branduardi-Raymont | UNITED KINGDOM | |
| Z. Yao | BELGIUM | |
| J. Ness | SPAIN | |
| R. Gladstone | UNITED STATES | |
| D. Grodent | BELGIUM | |
| T. Cravens | UNITED STATES | |
| G. Clark | UNITED STATES | |
| C. Paranicas | UNITED STATES | |
| B. Snios | UNITED STATES | |
| R. Elsner | UNITED STATES | |
| A. Rymer | UNITED STATES | |
| C. Jackman | UNITED KINGDOM | |
| L. Ray | UNITED KINGDOM | |
| R. Kraft | UNITED STATES | |
| A. Wibinoso | UNITED KINGDOM | |
| ABSTRACT | |
| The combination of in-situ measurements from the Juno spacecraft and remote X-ray observations have provided tantalising clues towards the processes that permit rapidly-rotating magnetised bodies to produce X-ray aurora. Since Juno does not carry an X-ray instrument, AO 18 presents unique opportunities which may definitively identify the acceleration process/es that allow Jupiter to produce X-ray aurorae. We will:1. Identify whether magnetic unloading triggers the X-ray aurora by testing for correlations between X-ray auroral emissions and simultaneous Juno measurements of the plasma sheet. 2. Identify and quantify the auroral acceleration process/es at Jupiter by testing for correlations between X-ray spectral fluxes and in-situ electron and ion fluxes and multi-waveband observations. | |
| PAPERS |
| - CLASS 1: | papers that present specific XMM-Newton observations |
| - CLASS 2: | papers that refer to published XMM-Newton results with complementary observations, follow-up analysis, or theoretical analysis |
| - CLASS 3: | further deliveries which resulted from the program and which are made available to the community (e.g. source catalogues, processed images or spectra in public data base) |
| - CLASS 4: | comments and suggestions from PI |
| CLASS 1 (2 references) |
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