Poster
Alfvénic Acceleration of Auroral Particles at Jupiter
Magnetospheres
Chris
Lorch
Lancaster University
Recent Juno spacecraft observations of Jupiter's auroral acceleration region have shed light on the mechanisms responsible for energising auroral electrons. One such observation shows peaks in precipitating energy flux associated with broadband bidirectional electron distributions. It has been suggested that these structures may be signatures of a stochastic acceleration process driven by wave-particle interactions. Using models of magnetospheric plasma parameters, we determine where in the jovian magnetosphere kinetic Alfvén waves can efficiently accelerate particles.
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