Observation of Jovian Visible Aurora and its Generation Mechanism

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We have built an optical observation system of Jovian visible aurora and airglow, which consists of CCD and narrow band filter on ground-based telescope. The emissions have never been measured from ground. We have carried out the observations by use of Rikubetsu 110cm telescope, lidate 60cm telescope and Hokkaido University 10cm telescope from 1999 to 2001. We have also developed an imaging processing system that analyzes the image of Jupiter taken with short exposure time and integrated. We found some emissions in the northern region of Jupiter. Our system may be able to apply to detect very weak signals from planets or airglow.We have investigated theoretically the atmosphere of Jupiter as well as Venus, Earth and Mars. The results suggested that the interactions with clouds and plasma are important to planetary atmospheres. Especially, at high altitudes the ion-drag effect must be considered in the planetary upper atmospheres.