Issue |
A&A
Volume 568, August 2014
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Article Number | A53 | |
Number of page(s) | 11 | |
Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201423927 | |
Published online | 13 August 2014 |
Fast and slow frequency-drifting millisecond bursts in Jovian decametric radio emissions
1
Future University-Hakodate,
116-2 Kamedanakano-cho, 041-8655
Hakodate
Japan
e-mail:
riabov@fun.ac.jp
2
LESIA-Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, UPMC Univ. Paris 6, Univ. Paris-Diderot,
92195
Meudon,
France
3
Institute of Radio Astronomy, 4 Krasnoznamennaya St, 610002
Kharkov,
Ukraine
4
Département Environnement Spatial, ONERA,
31055
Toulouse,
France
Received: 2 April 2014
Accepted: 10 June 2014
We present an analysis of several Jovian Io-related decametric radio storms recorded in 2004−2012 at the Ukrainian array UTR-2 using the new generation of baseband digital receivers. Continuous baseband sampling within sessions lasting for several hours enabled us to study the evolution of multiscale spectral patterns during the whole storm at varying time and frequency resolutions and trace the temporal transformation of burst structures in unprecedented detail. In addition to the well-known frequency drifting millisecond patterns known as S bursts we detected two other classes of events that often look like S bursts at low resolution but reveal a more complicated structure in high resolution dynamic spectra. The emissions of the first type (LS bursts, superposition of L and S type emissions) have a much lower frequency drift rate than the usual quasi linearly drifting S bursts (QS) and often occur within a frequency band where L emission is simultaneously present, suggesting that both LS and at least part of L emissions may come from the same source. The bursts of the second type (modulated S bursts called MS) are formed by a wideband frequency-modulated envelope that can mimic S bursts with very steep negative (or even positive) drift rates. Observed with insufficient time-frequency resolution, MS look like S bursts with complex shapes and varying drifts; MS patterns often occur in association with (i) narrowband emission; (ii) S burst trains; or (iii) sequences of fast drift shadow events. We propose a phenomenological description for various types of S emissions, that should include at least three components: high- and low-frequency limitation of the overall frequency band of the emission, fast frequency modulation of emission structures within this band, and emergence of elementary S burst substructures, that we call “forking” structures. All together, these three components can produce most of the observed spectral structures, including S bursts with apparently very complex time-frequency structures.
Key words: acceleration of particles / instabilities / plasmas / radiation mechanisms: general / ISM: kinematics and dynamics / masers
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