Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2022

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[E] Poster

P (Space and Planetary Sciences ) » P-PS Planetary Sciences

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

Fri. Jun 3, 2022 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Online Poster Zoom Room (3) (Ch.03)

convener:Jun Kimura(Osaka University), convener:Fuminori Tsuchiya(Planetary Plasma and Atmospheric Research Center, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University), Kunio M. Sayanagi(Hampton University), convener:Cindy Young(NASA Langley Research Center), Chairperson:Jun Kimura(Osaka University), Fuminori Tsuchiya(Planetary Plasma and Atmospheric Research Center, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University)


11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

[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.