Ion Parameters Dataset From Juno/JADE Observations in Jupiter's Magnetosphere Between 10 and 50 R_J

Abstract

After its arrival at Jupiter in July 2016, Juno conducted a global survey of Jupiter's magnetosphere (especially the equatorial plasma disk region) with its highly eccentric polar orbit. Since then, the JADE instrument has accumulated a large amount of plasma measurements. Using a developed forward modeling method and the Alpine supercomputer cluster at CU Boulder, we fit all ion measurements between 10 and 50 from PJ5 to PJ56, obtaining a dataset with 70,487 good fits that consists of the following set of plasma parameters: abundances of different heavy ions, density, temperature, and 3‐D bulk flow velocity of heavy ions. An overview of the dataset and an example use on flux tube interchange are presented to illustrate its effectiveness and usefulness. In the investigated interchange event that occurred at 14 , the plasma disk is variable and heated, with alternating hotter inflows and colder outflows, accompanied by small perturbations in the magnetic fields. This dataset has the potential for many applications.