Equatorial confinement of thermal plasma near the rings of Saturn

Details Equatorial confinement of thermal plasma near the rings of Saturn Equatorial confinement of thermal plasma near the rings of Saturn

Apr 1983

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983natur.302..599i&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 302, April 14, 1983, p. 599, 600.

Physics

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Magnetically Trapped Particles, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Saturn Rings, Space Plasmas, Thermal Plasmas, Voyager 2 Spacecraft

Scientific paper

In the unique environment of the rings of Saturn, because of a combination of the magnetic field geometry and the meteoroid impact ionization at the ring plane, a thin plasma disk having a total thickness of no more than a few per cent of the planetary radius might exist in the vicinity of the ring system. The radial transport of this ring plasma to larger radial distances may act as an important source of the thermal plasma in Saturn's magnetosphere. The author suggests that the recent observations by the Voyager 2 Plasma Science team are not inconsistent with this scenario.

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