Electron Densities over Jupiter’s Polar Cap and Implications for Auroral Acceleration

Ali H Sulaiman1, Sadie Elliott2, Robert L Lysak1, Frederic Allegrini3, William S Kurth4, George B Hospodarsky4, Ondrej Santolik5, George B Clark6, Barry Mauk7 and Scott J Bolton8, (1)University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy, Minneapolis, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, School of Physics and Astronomy, Minneapolis, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (4)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (5)IAP Prague, Praha 4, Czech Republic, (6)Catholic University of America, Washington, United States, (7)The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (8)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States