Statistical analysis of injection/dispersion events in Saturn's inner magnetosphere

Details Statistical analysis of injection/dispersion events in Saturn's inner magnetosphere Statistical analysis of injection/dispersion events in Saturn's inner magnetosphere

Jul 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008jgra..11307215c&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 113, Issue A7, CiteID A07215

Physics

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Magnetospheric Physics: Planetary Magnetospheres (5443, 5737, 6033), Magnetospheric Physics: Magnetosphere: Inner, Magnetospheric Physics: Plasma Convection (2463), Planetary Sciences: Fluid Planets: Magnetospheres (2756)

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In the inner magnetosphere of a rapidly rotating planet such as Jupiter and Saturn, radial transport of plasma mainly comprises hot, tenuous plasma moving inward and cold, denser plasma moving outward. A distinctive phenomenon resulting from the drift dispersion of injecting hot plasma provides direct evidence for this convective motion. Particle instruments aboard the Cassini spacecraft, including the Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument (MIMI) and the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS), have made numerous observations of such signatures. The statistics of the properties of such events are studied in this paper by analyzing CAPS data from 26 Cassini orbits. A statistical picture of their major characteristics is developed, including the distributions of ages, longitudinal widths, radial distances, and longitudes and local times of injection. An unexpected longitude modulation of these events appears in the old SLS longitude system, which is based on the Saturn kilometric radiation (SKR) observations by Voyager around 1980, while no such modulation seems to exist in the new SKR longitude system of the Cassini era. A Lomb periodogram analysis, however, reveals no significant periodic modulation of these events. The injection structures are found to occupy a small fraction (~5-10) of the available longitude space.

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