Modelling of the Saturnian Kilometric Radiation (SKR)

Details Modelling of the Saturnian Kilometric Radiation (SKR) Modelling of the Saturnian Kilometric Radiation (SKR)

Dec 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agufmsm41b1658c&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #SM41B-1658

Physics

2704 Auroral Phenomena (2407), 6275 Saturn, 6939 Magnetospheric Physics (2700), 6969 Remote Sensing, 7847 Radiation Processes

Scientific paper

The Saturnian Kilometric Radiation (SKR), discovered by the Voyager spacecraft in the 1980's, is observed quasi-continuously by Cassini since 2003. Study of 3 years of SKR observations by RPWS (Radio and Plasma Wave Science) revealed three recurrent features of SKR dynamic spectra : (i) discrete arcs, presumably caused by the anisotropy of the radio emission pattern combined to the observer's motion, (ii) an equatorial shadow zone around the planet (observed near perikrones) and (iii) signal extinctions at high northern latitudes. We model these features using the code PRES (Planetary Radio Emission Simulator) that assumes radio emissions to be generated via the Cyclotron Maser Instability for simulating observed dynamic spectra. We show that observed arc-like structures imply radio sources in partial (~90%) corotation, located on magnetic field lines of invariant latitude 70° to 75°, and emitting at oblique angle from the local magnetic field with a cone angle that varies with frequency. Then, based on the previously demonstrated conjugacy between UV and SKR sources, we successfully model the equatorial shadow zone as well as northern latitude SKR extinctions assuming time variable radio sources distributed along field lines with footprints along the daily UV oval measured from HST images.

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