[P-PS01] Outer Solar System Exploration Today, and Tomorrow

[PPS01-P06] Scientific feasibility study for planetary auroral observations in the LAPYUTA mission

*Tomoki Kimura¹, Chihiro Tao², Go Murakami³, Kazuo Yoshioka⁴, Fuminori Tsuchiya⁵, Atsushi Yamazaki³, Masato Kagitani⁵, Ryoichi Koga⁶, Kei Masunaga³, Shotaro Sakai⁵ (1.Tokyo University of Science, 2.National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 3.Japan Aerospace and Exploration Agency, 4.University of Tokyo, 5.Tohoku University, 6.Nagoya University)

Keywords:LAPYUTA telescope, Jupiter, aurora

We made a feasibility study for observations of planetary auroras with the next generation planetary ultraviolet (UV) space telescope LAPYUTA. Based on current dataset from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Hisaki satellite, simulations for the LAPYUTA spectroscopy and imaging were made for Jupiter’s auroral emissions. It was confirmed that under the current design of LAPYTUA telescope, both of the spectroscopy and imaging have enough sensitivity for detections of Jupiter’s auroral emissions. Now we are narrowing down the imaging filters specifications and planning the observation modes. In this presentation, the current status of the above feasibility studies are presented.