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Bhardwaj, A.; Elsner, R.; Gladstone, R.; Waite, H.; Lugaz, N.; Cravens, T.; Branduardi-Raymont, G.; Ramsay, G.; Soria, R.; Ford, P.; Rodriguez, P.; Majeed, T.; Grodent, D.
Bibliographical reference
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004, abstract #P51B-1432
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2004
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Description
Jovian X-rays can be broadly classified into two categories: (1)
"auroral" emission, which is confined to high-latitudes (
˜>60° ) at both polar regions, and (2) "dayglow" emission,
which originates from the sunlit low-latitude ( ˜<50° )
regions of the disk (hereafter called "disk" emissions). Recent X-ray
observations of Jupiter by Chandra and XMM-Newton have shown that these
two types of X-ray emission from Jupiter have different morphological,
temporal, and spectral characteristics. In particular: 1) contrary to
the auroral X-rays, which are concentrated in a spot in the north and in
a band that runs half-way across the planet in the south, the
low-latitude X-ray disk is almost uniform; 2) unlike the
˜40±20-min periodic oscillations seen in the auroral X-ray
emissions, the disk emissions do not show any periodic oscillations; 3)
the disk emission is harder and extends to higher energies than the
auroral spectrum; and 4) the disk X-ray emission show time variability
similar to that seen in solar X-rays. These differences and features
imply that the processes producing X-rays are different at these two
latitude regions on Jupiter. We will present the details of these and
other features that suggest the differences between these two classes of
X-ray emissions from Jupiter, and discuss the current scenario of the
production mechanism of them.