Book chapter
RADIO EMISSIONS FROM NEPTUNE
Neptune and Triton, pp.357-404
University of Arizona Press
11/01/2016
Abstract
The 1989 Voyager 2 rapid flyby demonstrated that Neptune is a weak source of nonthermal radio emissions, counting no less than five distinct components. These include one of the most impulsive narrowbanded emissions ("bursty" component) ever detected from a radio planet and a slowly varying ("smooth") component with very intricate polarization features, which constitute Neptune's main auroral emissions. Their analysis and interpretation allowed to derive an accurate estimate of Neptune's rotation period (16h 06m 30s±24s). The ubiquitous nontherrnal "continuum" radiation, which has now been observed at all outer planetary magnetospheres, is thoroughly discussed. We review the physical properties of all
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- Title: Subtitle
- RADIO EMISSIONS FROM NEPTUNE
- Creators
- PHILIPPE ZarkaBENT M. PedersenALAIN LecacheuxMICHAEL L. KaiserMICHAEL D. DeschWILLIAM M. FarrellWILLIAM S. Kurth
- Contributors
- Dale P. Cruikshank (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Neptune and Triton, pp.357-404
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984455582802771
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