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More about the structure of the high latitude Jovian aurorae

Prangé, Renée; Pallier, Laurent

This study is based on the determination of a 'reference' main oval for Jupiter's aurora from a series of high-resolution images taken with the Faint Object Camera on board the Hubble Space Telescope in the H ₂ Lyman bands centered near 1550 Å. We have taken advantage of the visibility of the northern auroral oval over a large range of …