Columbia-led team discovers highest energy X-rays from Jupiter

In Nature Astronomy, a Columbia-led team from the US and UK describes their discovery of the highest energy X-rays from Jupiter, and explains their origin in electrons that were emitted by Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io and accelerated in the Jovian magnetosphere. This was a very Columbia-centric paper.  Authors Chuck Hailey, Kaya Mori and Melania Nynka all received their Ph.Ds in physics from Columbia, while Amani Garvin (Physics), Gabriel Bridges (Physics), Shifra Mandel (Physics) and Ben Hord (Astronomy) all received their undergraduate degrees from Columbia. Bridges and Mandel are 2nd year graduate students at Columbia in Physics and Astronomy respectively. The Columbia News Article describes the teams discovery in more detail, along with details of the NuSTAR optics, which were built at Columbia’s Nevis Laboratory.