Periodic Behavior of Saturn's Magnetosphere and Titan's Local Environment

Details Periodic Behavior of Saturn's Magnetosphere and Titan's Local Environment Periodic Behavior of Saturn's Magnetosphere and Titan's Local Environment

Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agufmsm31c..02g&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #SM31C-02

Physics

2752 Mhd Waves And Instabilities (2149, 6050, 7836), 2753 Numerical Modeling, 5737 Magnetospheres (2756), 6275 Saturn, 6281 Titan

Scientific paper

We present the results of a highly resolved 3D global magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation of the magnetosphere of Saturn with the goal of understanding the patterns of plasma convection in the magnetosphere. We have previously found that the magnetosphere may be unstable on a global scale, resulting in periodic releases of plasma that are the main mechanism for large-scale plasma loss from the magnetosphere. In this paper we examine how the periodic release of plasmoids down the tail are a result of the instability and what the cause of this instability may be. We will characterize the effects of the periodic behavior on the magnetosphere as a whole. In addition, we quantify the range of upstream conditions experienced by Titan and explain how these are a result of the periodic environment of the magnetosphere.

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