Comparing Jupiter's Equatorial X-Ray Emissions With Solar X-Ray Flux Over 19 Years of the Chandra Mission.

ABSTRACT: We present a statistical study of Jupiter's disk X-ray emissions using 19 years of Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO) observations. Previous work has suggested that these emissions are consistent with solar X-rays elastically scattered from Jupiter's upper atmosphere. We showcase a new pulse invariant (PI) filtering method that minimizes instrumental effects which may produce unphysical trends in photon counts across the nearly two-decade span of the observations. We compare the CXO results with solar X-ray flux data from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites X-ray Sensor for the wavelength band 1-8 Å (long channel), to quantify the correlation between solar activity and Jovian disk counts. We find a statistically significant Pearson's Correlation Coefficient of 0.9, which co

SUBMITTER: McEntee SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10078327 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature