Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Sep 2009
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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #41, #38.10
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
In addition of being the major source of neutral gas and dust particles for the Saturnian E-ring and, ultimately, heavy ions for the Saturnian inner magnetosphere, Enceladus exhibits geological activity that made it an object of recent intensive study. The interest has significantly increased after Cassini flybys in 2005 that have provided a detailed map of its surface, showing that most of activity occurs in a region around the south pole of the satellite.
Dust jets that were discovered during the flybys can be related to a set of localized gas sources that dominate in supplying material into the rarefied atmosphere of Enceladus. A comprehensive data analysis requires developing of physical models that include all major processes occurring in the atmosphere. Such models can be used not only for calibration and understanding of already available data but also could have a practical application for planning of the coming flybys and predicting of expected results.
This work presents a kinetic model of Enceladus’ atmosphere with plumes located at positions determined with CIRS observations and described by local Maxwellian distribution functions. The model parameters include production rate, temperature and bulk velocity of a gas near a vent. Assuming collision frequency being negligible outside of the vents, density distribution in the atmosphere is obtained by solving a Louwville equation. The parameters are optimized to fit various combinations of sets of Cassini data from INMS and UVIS. Here we present results of fitting the multi-plume model to UVIS E2, and INMS E3 and E5 flyby data and place estimates of source rates from some plumes as well as upper limits from others.
This work was partially supported by NASA Cassini Data Analysis grant NNX08AP94G.
Combi Michael
Tenishev Valeriy
Teolis Ben
Waite Hunter
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