Effects of Titan on trapped particles in Saturn's magnetosphere

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Mar 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982jgr....87.1411m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 87, Mar. 1, 1982, p. 1411-1418.

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Magnetically Trapped Particles, Planetary Magnetospheres, Saturn Atmosphere, Titan, Angular Distribution, Pitch (Inclination), Planetary Magnetic Fields, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Saturn, Satellites, Titan, Magnetosphere, Particles, Entrapment, Voyager 1, Lecp, Low Energy Charged Particle Experiment, Distribution, Magnetic Fields, Mag, Magnetometer Experiment, Ions, Electrons, Motion, Corotation, Flux, Intensity, Trajectories, Models, Convection, Wakes, Electric Fields, Pitch Angles, Low Energy Magnetospheric P

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Magnetic field data from Voyager 1 magnetometer experiment are used with angular distribution data from the same spacecraft's low energy charged particle experiment to investigate the influences of Titan on the magnetosphere energetic particle distributions, with attention to the pitch angle distributions of ions and electrons. Titan appears to disrupt the corotation motion of the ions, since, while the fluxes of the ions in the corotation direction are of diminished intensity, those observed in the equatorial plane perpendicular to this direction are almost unaffected. The resulting distribution and trajectory modeling conclusions suggest that the convection electric field is absent in the wake of Titan, and that the presence of Titan produces a reduction in the fluxes of the electrons and flatter distributions with pitch angle.

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