On the plasma conditions at the dayside magnetopause of Saturn

Details On the plasma conditions at the dayside magnetopause of Saturn On the plasma conditions at the dayside magnetopause of Saturn

Dec 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983georl..10.1200l&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 10, Dec. 1983, p. 1200-1202.

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Magnetopause, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Planetary Magnetospheres, Saturn (Planet), Space Plasmas, Ion Temperature, Proton Flux Density, Solar Wind, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Voyager 2 Spacecraft

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The energy densities of the low energy ions measured by the Low Energy Charged Particle experiment on Voyager 1 and 2 are compared to the magnetic field energy densities derived from the magnetometer instrument during the crossing of the dayside Saturn magnetopause. The ratios of the proton to magnetic field energy densities are ⪆0.5 during the Voyager 2 crossing when the magnetopause was at ≡18 RS. During the Voyager 1 crossing of the magnetopause at ≡23 RS, the ratios were ≡0.1, although they approached one as the spacecraft entered the region near 18 RS. The observations show that the dayside Saturnian magnetopause can at times have high beta plasma conditions, similar to the situation found at Jupiter.

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