Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 1996
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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #28, #19.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, p.1129
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The detection of large OH densities in the inner magnetosphere of Saturn has radically altered our conception of neutral and plasma production and transport rates. We present a model of neutral and plasma interactions which uses a 2-D representation of the plasma transport and chemistry coupled with a 0-D model of the neutral chemistry. The free parameters are the plasma transport rate and the neutral source profile. These parameters are tightly constrained by the plasma and neutral observations. The products of the model are the plasma and neutral density and composition as functions of latitude and radial distance. We find that the neutral source must be strongly peaked near Enceladus; this be be due either to ring particle collisions with Enceladus or charge exchange of plasma in the inner rings. The model results predict that in addition to H and OH large amounts of O and smaller amounts of H2O should be present, a result that will be tested by Cassini.
Eviatar Aharon
Richardson John D.
Vasyliūnas Vytenis M.
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