Initial Cassini/MIMI Investigation of Dayside-Nightside Variations in Saturn's Magnetospheric Suprathermal Heavy Ion Composition

Details Initial Cassini/MIMI Investigation of Dayside-Nightside Variations in Saturn's Magnetospheric Suprathermal Heavy Ion Composition Initial Cassini/MIMI Investigation of Dayside-Nightside Variations in Saturn's Magnetospheric Suprathermal Heavy Ion Composition

May 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agusm.p41c..06c&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #P41C-06

Physics

5737 Magnetospheres (2756), 6275 Saturn, 6280 Saturnian Satellites, 2778 Ring Current

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Now that Cassini has completed more than 20 orbits of Saturn, we begin an initial investigation to search for significant dayside-nightside suprathermal (3-220 keV/e) heavy ion composition variations in the <20 Rs Kronian magnetosphere using the Charge-Energy-Mass Spectrometer CHEMS of the Cassini/MIMI experiment. The solar wind, Saturn's ionosphere, and its rings and satellites supply the particles that are energized and are present in its magnetospheric particle populations. At Earth it has been shown that the average magnetospheric energetic ion populations exhibit dayside-nightside intensity, energy distribution, and elemental composition differences resulting from magnetospheric transport and variable source contributions. Exposure of Earth's dayside ionosphere to sunlight and lack thereof on the nightside creates a significant local ion source variation, so that Earth's magnetospheric suprathermal ion population is typically more often dominated by ionospheric origin ions on the dayside than on nightside. At Saturn its numerous close satellites and the rings make for a more complicated local ion source than at Earth.

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