Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Evidence for low density holes in Jupiter’s ionosphere

  • Masafumi Imai,
  • Ivana Kolmašová,
  • William S. Kurth,
  • Ondřej Santolík,
  • George B. Hospodarsky,
  • Donald A. Gurnett,
  • Shannon T. Brown,
  • Scott J. Bolton,
  • John E. P. Connerney,
  • Steven M. Levin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10708-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Intense electromagnetic impulses induced by Jupiter’s lightning can produce both low-frequency dispersed whistler emissions and non-dispersed radio pulses. Here, the authors show Jupiter dispersed pulses associated with Jovian lightning that are evidence of low density holes in Jupiter’s ionosphere.