Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005georl..3214s09c&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 32, Issue 14, CiteID L14S09
Physics
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Ionosphere: Planetary Ionospheres (5435, 5729, 6026), Ionosphere: Plasma Interactions With Dust And Aerosols (7849), Magnetospheric Physics: Planetary Magnetospheres (5443, 5737, 6033), Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets: Rings And Dust, Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects: Saturn
Scientific paper
We present observations of thermal (~0.6-100eV) electrons observed near Saturn's main rings during Cassini's Saturn Orbit Insertion (SOI) on 1 July 2004. We find that the intensity of electrons is broadly anticorrelated with the ring optical depth at the magnetic footprint of the field line joining the spacecraft to the rings. We see enhancements corresponding to the Cassini division and Encke gap. We suggest that some of the electrons are generated by photoemission from ring particle surfaces on the illuminated side of the rings, the far side from the spacecraft. Structure in the energy spectrum over the Cassini division and A-ring may be related to photoelectron emission followed by acceleration, or, more likely, due to photoelectron production in the ring atmosphere or ionosphere.
Baragiola Raúl A.
Coates Andrew J.
Crary Frank J.
Johnson Robert E.
Lewis Gethyn R.
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