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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 38, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL048457
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- University of Leicester by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) [PP/E/000983/1, ST/G0022223/1]
- RCUK
- SET by NASA CDAP [NNX10AG35G]
- STFC
- STFC [ST/I505780/1, ST/H002480/1, ST/G002223/1, ST/H002383/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/I505780/1, ST/H002480/1, ST/H002383/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Here, for the first time, temporally coincident and spatially overlapping Cassini VIMS and UVIS observations of Saturn's southern aurora are presented. Ultraviolet auroral H and H-2 emissions from UVIS are compared to infrared H-3(+) emission from VIMS. The auroral emission is structured into three arcs - H, H-2 and H-3(+) are morphologically identical in the bright main auroral oval (similar to 73 degrees S), but there is an equatorward arc that is seen predominantly in H (similar to 70 degrees S), and a poleward arc (similar to 74 degrees S) that is seen mainly in H-2 and H-3(+). These observations indicate that, for the main auroral oval, UV emission is a good proxy for the infrared H-3(+) morphology (and vice versa), but for emission either poleward or equatorward this is no longer true. Hence, simultaneous UV/IR observations are crucial for completing the picture of how the atmosphere interacts with the magnetosphere. Citation: Melin, H., T. Stallard, S. Miller, J. Gustin, M. Galand, S. V. Badman, W. R. Pryor, J. O'Donoghue, R. H. Brown, and K. H. Baines (2011), Simultaneous Cassini VIMS and UVIS observations of Saturn's southern aurora: Comparing emissions from H, H2 and H-3(+) at a high spatial resolution, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L15203, doi:10.1029/2011GL048457.
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