Jupiter's radiation belts at 13.8 GHz

Jupiter's radiation belts at 13.8 GHz

Moeckel, C.M.

de Pater, I. (mentor)

Aerospace Engineering

Space Engineering

2017-05-22

The Jupiter flyby of Cassini in 2001 allowed to study the gas giant in detail. Jupiter’s inner magnetosphere is populated by high energy particles, causing an intense radiation observable throughout the microwave regime. The re-calibration of the Cassini RADAR instrument has allowed for constraining the energy distribution of the electron population indicating a lack of high energy particles. Maps of the synchrotron radiation indicate a redistribution of the electrons compared to other epochs, confirming that the magnetosphere was in a highly disturbed stat. The retrieval accounted for the thermal emission from Jupiter and required depleting the polar regions of ammonia.

Jupiter
Synchrotron Radiation
Variability
Cassini

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2017-11-22

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2017 Moeckel, C.M.