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Magnetopause and Bow Shock Boundary Crossings at Jupiter

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
  • 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

Description

This dataset compiles all magnetopause and bow shock boundary crossings at Jupiter identified so far from past missions Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Ulysses, The Galileo Orbiter, as well as from mission Juno (currently updated as of October 2025). Each crossing entry has:

  1. UTC datetime (format YYYY-DOYTHH:MM:SS)

  2. Date (format M/D/YYYY)

  3. Time (format HH:MM:SS, in 24-hour time)

  4. Boundary (magnetopause or bow shock)

  5. Spacecraft

  6. Location of Crossing (using the JSS Cartesian Coordinate System, in units of Rj: X_JSS, Y_JSS, Z_JSS, R)

  7. From/To Region (Juno crossings only)

  8. Perijove/Orbit (Juno crossings only)

 

We use Rj = 71,492 km.

The spreadsheet has four tabs: Tab 1 = Read Me, Tab 2 = All, Tab 3 = MP, Tab 4 = BS

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Funding

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
699050X

References

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  • Ebert, R. W., et al. (2017), Accelerated flows at Jupiter's magnetopause: Evidence for magnetic reconnection along the dawn flank, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 4401–4409, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL072187
  • Hospodarsky, G. B., et al. (2017), Jovian bow shock and magnetopause encounters by the Juno spacecraft, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 4506–4512, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL073177
  • Ranquist, D. A., Bagenal, F., Wilson, R. J., Hospodarsky, G., Ebert, R. W., Allegrini, F., et al. (2019). Survey of Jupiter's Dawn Magnetosheath using Juno. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 124, 9106–9123. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027382
  • Collier, M. R., Gruesbeck, J. R., Connerney, J. E. P., Joy, S. P., Hospodarsky, G. B., & Roberts, A., et al. (2020). A k-means clustering analysis of the Jovian and terrestrial magnetopauses: A technique to classify global magnetospheric behavior. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 125, e2019JE006366. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE006366
  • Louis, C. K., Jackman, C. M., Hospodarsky, G., O'Kane Hackett, A., Devon-Hurley, E., Zarka, P., et al. (2023). Effect of a magnetospheric compression on Jovian radio emissions: In situ case study using Juno data. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 128, e2022JA031155. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JA031155