Three-Dimensional Dust Distribution in the Jovian System from Juno/Waves Observations: Insights into the Halo Ring and Magnetospheric Dust

Discoveries regarding the dusty rings of Jupiter and the Galilean satellites' dust environment have been continuously refined by orbiters and flybys. Leveraging Juno Waves instrument electric field data, we developed a hybrid recognition framework, coupling Kvammen et al.'s Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with rule-based differential peak analysis, to systematically map the Jovian dust environment. This automated pipeline successfully identified over 150,000 dust impacts, effectively isolating dust signals from intense magnetospheric noise, providing a high-resolution catalog of Jovian microdust distribution and offering a robust technical foundation for future missions. Analysis reveals a previously unresolved dust density "cavity" within the vertical cross-section of the Jovian halo ring, which was predicted by previous dust dynamic simulations. Moreover, we report the continued evidence of dust populations near or in the Jovian magnetosheath through identification of background magnetic and plasma data instant variations during magnetospheric boundary crossings.

Source: arXiv:2607.19304v1 - http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19304v1 PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19304v1 Original Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19304v1