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- Title
Generation Mechanism and Beaming of Jovian nKOM From 3D Numerical Modeling of Juno/Waves Observations.
- Authors
Boudouma, A.; Zarka, P.; Louis, C. K.; Briand, C.; Imai, M.
- Abstract
The narrowband kilometric radiation (nKOM) is a Jovian low-frequency radio component identified as a plasma emission produced in the region of the Io plasma torus. Measurements from the Waves instrument onboard the Juno spacecraft permitted to establish the distribution of nKOM occurrence and intensity as a function of frequency and latitude. We have developed a 3D geometrical model that can simulate at large scale the plasma emissions occurrence observed by a spacecraft based on an internal Jovian magnetic field model and a diffusive equilibrium model of the plasma density in Jupiter's inner magnetosphere. With this model, we propose a new method to discriminate the generation mechanism, wave mode, beaming and radio source location of plasma emissions. Here, this method is applied to the study of the nKOM observed from all latitudes by the Juno/Waves experiment to identify which conditions reasonably reproduce the observed occurrence distribution versus frequency and latitude. The results allow us to exclude the two main nKOM models published so far, and to show that the emission is produced at the local plasma frequency and then beamed anti-parallel to the local density gradient into free space. We also propose that depending on its latitude, Juno observes two distinct kinds of nKOM: the low frequency nKOM in ordinary mode at high latitudes, and the high frequency nKOM on extraordinary mode at low latitudes. Both radio source locations are found to be distributed near the centrifugal equator ranging from the outer edge to the inner edge of the Io plasma torus.
- Subjects
JUNO (Space probe); PLASMA density; PLASMA boundary layers; PLASMA frequencies; GEOMETRIC modeling; LATITUDE; NONEQUILIBRIUM plasmas
- Publication
Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 2024, Vol 129, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
2169-9380
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1029/2023JA032280