Titan's magnetospheric interaction

Details Titan's magnetospheric interaction Titan's magnetospheric interaction

Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007agufm.p51d..03m&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #P51D-03

Physics

2459 Planetary Ionospheres (5435, 5729, 6026), 2732 Magnetosphere Interactions With Satellites And Rings, 6281 Titan

Scientific paper

Titan's magnetospheric interaction has been extensively studied with observations from both the Voyager and Cassini spacecraft and investigated with various numerical models. Titan has a well extended atmosphere/ionosphere system and no appreciable intrinsic magnetic field. Its interaction with the rotating plasma flow in the Saturnian magnetosphere is controlled by both the upstream plasma and Titan's Saturn local time. The interaction results in a complex plasma environment near Titan: the plasma flow slows down due to ion pick-up and the resulting mass loading, the magnetic field lines pile-up in front of the obstacle and form an induced bipolar magnetotail in the wake region. Kinetic processes are believed to be important in the interaction process due to the large gyroradii of the heavy ion plasma component. In this presentation, we will review Titan's interaction process and discuss the applicability of various numerical models, including a comparison of the pros and cons of contemporary hybrid models and fluid models in particular MHD-models.

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