The Influence of Saturn's Magnetospheric Plasma on Titan's Thermosphere

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Dec 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011agufmsm21b2013w&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2011, abstract #SM21B-2013

Physics

[2732] Magnetospheric Physics / Magnetosphere Interactions With Satellites And Rings, [6275] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Saturn, [6281] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Titan

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Cassini observations have shown that the magnetospheric plasma environment near Titan is highly variable (Rymer et al. [2009] and Simon et al. [2010]). While variability is evident at timescales from minutes to days, Arridge et al. [2008] show that there is a strong periodicity at 20 Rs with period ~10.8 hours associated with plasma sheet motion at the canonical Saturn rotation period. Cassini Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) observations have shown that the density structure in Titan's thermosphere responds strongly and quickly to the changing plasma environment, exhibiting hotter temperatures when Titan is within the plasma sheet than when it is in the lobe regions (Westlake et al. [2011] and Bell et al. [2011]). In this study we present an analysis of the plasma data from the Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument (MIMI) and CAPS electron and ion sensors prior to and during several Titan flybys in order to determine the drivers of the observed thermospheric heating.

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