ELLIPTICALLY POLARIZED BURSTY RADIO EMISSIONS FROM JUPITER

Citation
Mj. Reiner et al., ELLIPTICALLY POLARIZED BURSTY RADIO EMISSIONS FROM JUPITER, Geophysical research letters, 22(4), 1995, pp. 345-348
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
ISSN journal
00948276
Volume
22
Issue
4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
345 - 348
Database
ISI
SICI code
0094-8276(1995)22:4<345:EPBREF>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
We report a new component of Jovian radio emission observed by the Uly sses spacecraft when Ulysses was at high Jovigraphic latitudes (greate r-than-or-similar-to 30-degrees north or south of the Jovian magnetic equator). This bursty high-latitude emission is elliptically polarized in the right-hand sense when observed from northern latitudes and in the left-hand sense when observed from southern latitudes, consistent with extra-ordinary mode. The orientation of the polarization ellipse is observed to systematically vary with time relative to the observer. It is argued that the elliptically-polarized nature of the emission i s intrinsic to the source region.