Charged Neutral Interactions Inside 3 Saturn Radii Using Cassini MIMI Data

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Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004agufm.p54a..07p&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004, abstract #P54A-07

Physics

5737 Magnetospheres (2756), 5759 Rings And Dust, 6275 Saturn, 6280 Saturnian Satellites, 2730 Magnetosphere: Inner

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The Cassini Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument (MIMI) has three separate sensors which, taken together, have the capacity to detect energetic charged particles and neutral atoms and molecules. During orbit insertion, Cassini reached a closest approach distance of about 1.3 Saturn radii, flying at low latitudes over the ring plane. Ion and electron data taken close to the planet reveal strong flux decreases at some radial distances associated with planetary rings. Charged particles at a wide range of energies are apparently lost to collisions with neutral material such as ring particulates. The sharp flux decrease provides us with an opportunity to constrain the total amount of neutral material as a function of planetary radius. Furthermore, the particularly clean region sampled over the rings will allow us to study several sources of contamination to the MIMI measurements. The differential decreases by species and energy allow us to quantify the contributions of trapped and non-trapped particles to the penetrating background on the MIMI instrument.

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