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Since we are looking for correlations to determine the physics of cause and effect in planetary aurora, an important element of the auroral campaign is to have an open workshop to compare data sets from different missions and instruments. This campaign includes measurements from HST, Cassini, New Horizons, Earth-based solar wind instruments, ground-based IR telescopes, and ground-based radio telescopes. |
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We are a research group at Boston University studying the Aurorae on Jupiter and Saturn. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) allows us to take beautiful images of the Aurorae... |
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Auroras are light emissions phenomena due to energetic particles precipitating into the upper atmospheres. |
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The project will consist of a concentrated series of HST observations coordinated with planetary spacecraft and other earth-based observations in 2007. The temporal resolution of the measurements combined with the correlation of in situ observations will give us more insight about the phenomena at stake. |
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The HST observations will take place simultaneously with other in situ observations by Cassini and New Horizon. We expect to also compare with observations from ground-based telescopes at IR and radio wavelength. These combined observations will provide more information abour the correlation between light emissions and solar wind parameters. |
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We will have 128 orbits to observe Jupiter and Saturn, which means that thousands of images will be collected in different filters. The data are currently being processed and organized. |
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