Variability of southern and northern periodicities of Saturn Kilometric Radiation

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

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Among the persistent questions raised by the existence of a rotational modulation of the Saturn Kilometric Radiation (SKR), the origin of the variability of the 10.8 hours SKR period at a 1% level over weeks to years remains intriguing. While its short-term fluctuations (20-30 days) have been related to the variations of the solar wind speed, its long-term fluctuations (months to years) were proposed to be triggered by Enceladus mass-loading and/or seasonal variations. This situation has become even more complicated since the recent identification of two separated periods at 10.8h and 10.6h, each varying with time, corresponding to SKR sources located in the southern (S) and the northern (N) hemispheres, respectively. Here, six years of Cassini continuous radio measurements are investigated, from 2004 (pre-equinox) to the end of 2010 (post-equinox). From S and N SKR, radio periods and phase systems are derived separately for each hemisphere and fluctuations of radio periods are investigated at time scales of years to a few months. Then, the S phase is used to demonstrate that the S SKR rotational modulation is consistent with an intrinsically rotating phenomenon, in contrast with the early Voyager picture.

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