A hard X-ray study of the Jovian magnetosphere with NuSTAR

We report the first high-resolution hard X-ray observation of Jupiter with Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) in February 2015. This observation was targeted to probing a high energy extension of the X-ray continuum component detected from the Jovian aurorae by XMM-Newton, while the previous in-situ observation by the Ulysses failed to detect hard X-ray emission in the 27-48 keV band. NuSTAR has the unique capabilities of spatially resolving the two polar regions above 10 keV and detecting a spectral break which is expected between the XMM-Newton and Ulysses energy band. With 100 ksec exposure, our detection of X-ray emission from the south pole was only marginal possibly due to time variation of the auroral X-ray emission, while the north pole was hidden during our observation. In this poster, we present our imaging and spectral analysis, then discuss follow-up deeper NuSTAR observations.