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The Structure of the Warped Io Plasma Torus Constrained by the Io Footprint

Saur, Joachim; Schlegel, Stephan

Standard models of force balance along Jovian field lines predict the location of the Io Plasma Torus to be the centrifugal equator of Jupiter's magnetosphere, that is, the position along the magnetic field lines farthest away from Jupiter's rotational axis. In many models, the centrifugal equator is assumed to lay on a plane, calculated from a (s…

Identifying the Variety of Jovian X-Ray Auroral Structures: Tying the Morphology of X-Ray Emissions to Associated Magnetospheric Dynamics

Jackman, C. M.; Kurth, W. S.; Branduardi-Raymont, G. +12 more

We define the spatial clustering of X-rays within Jupiter's northern auroral regions by classifying their distributions into "X-ray auroral structures." Using data from Chandra during Juno's main mission observations (24 May 2016 to 8 September 2019), we define five X-ray structures based on their ionospheric location and calculate the distributio…