Water Group Composition Near the Orbit of Enceladus

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Dec 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agufm.p23b1384w&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #P23B-1384

Physics

2756 Planetary Magnetospheres (5443, 5737, 6033), 5719 Interactions With Particles And Fields, 5794 Instruments And Techniques, 6275 Saturn

Scientific paper

We present magnetospheric ion composition results from the Cassini CAPS IMS instrument. The data set is averaged over a four year period. Data from the equatorial plane are selected and binned into radial, local time and longitude bins with a focus on radial distances between 3-10 Saturn radii. The data analysis process necessitates fitting the instrument response functions to the raw data and so methods of assessment of data uncertainty are also presented. Water group ions (O+, OH+, H2O+, H3O+; or collectively W+), presented as mixing ratios dominate over H+ in this radial range and O+ is the dominant water group species. Temporal variations within the study period are presented. The energy distribution of the ion composition is also examined and the flow velocity is compared to the corotation velocity of the plasma.

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