Why is Radial Transport of Plasma at Saturn Asymmetric?

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May 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009agusmsm13a..04r&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2009, abstract #SM13A-04

Physics

2721 Field-Aligned Currents And Current Systems (2409), 2772 Plasma Waves And Instabilities (2471), 5443 Magnetospheres (2756), 6275 Saturn, 7807 Charged Particle Motion And Acceleration

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Since Cassini' arrival at Saturn we have learnt a great deal about plasma transport in the magnetosphere. The Saturn system rotates rapidly and has a heavy, equatorially confined plasma disc - leading to centrifugally driven outflow. In the current picture of Saturn plasma transport in the middle magnetosphere (5 < L < 15) the outflow and inflow sectors are not symmetric - large scale slow outward transport is balanced by small scale rapid inward 'injections'. We seek to address the asymmetry by analysis of the current systems associated with pressure and mass density gradients at Saturn.

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