Magnetospheric environments of outer planet rings - Influence of Saturn's axially symmetric magnetic field

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Jul 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987icar...71..115h&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 71, July 1987, p. 115-136.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Jupiter Rings, Planetary Atmospheres, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Planetary Magnetospheres, Plasma Dynamics, Saturn Rings, Uranus Rings, Astronomical Models, Energetic Particles, Planets, Rings, Magnetosphere, Saturn, Symmetry, Alteration, Sputtering, Reflectance, Magnetic Fields, Jupiter, Uranus, Charged Particles, Plasma, Particles, Comparisons, Absorption, Diffusion, Ions, Time Scale, Width, Transport, Depth, Optical Properties, Exposure, Radiation Belts, Flux, Albedo, Calculations, Satellites, Physical P

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Saturn's main rings exist within a zone of negligible magnetospheric losses and surface alteration effects, substantially due to the solid-body absorption of inwardly diffusing magnetospheric particles. This process is presently shown to be especially efficient in the inner magnetosphere of Saturn, due to the near-axial symmetry of the planetary magnetic field relative to the equatorial rotation plane; under the assumption of comparable diffusion rates, the inward magnetospheric particle transport is far more inhibited in the inner Saturnian magnetosphere than in the same regions of Jupiter and Uranus, even when only rings of comparable widths and depths are considered. In light of this, ring particle surface exposure to the ion fluxes of the radiation belt remains a prepossessing rationale for low Uranian ring albedos.

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