High Latitude Structure of Saturn's Magnetopause: Cassini Observations

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Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007agufm.p53d..01a&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #P53D-01

Physics

2724 Magnetopause And Boundary Layers, 2756 Planetary Magnetospheres (5443, 5737, 6033), 6275 Saturn

Scientific paper

We investigate the location of magnetopause crossings detected during high latitude orbits (> 30 deg) of the Cassini spacecraft. Using the magnetospheric field as a proxy for solar wind pressure, we compare the observed crossing locations with their predicted positions from axisymmetric magnetopause models. Systematic differences at high latitudes between these two quantities are used to place constraints on the degree of polar 'flattening' for Saturn's magnetopause. We comment on the corresponding internal structure of the magnetospheric obstacle.

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