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Dynamics of Saturn's magnetodisk near Titan's orbit: Comparison of Cassini magnetometer observations from real and virtual Titan flybys by Sven Simon; Alexandre Wennmacher; Fritz M. Neubauer; Cesar L. Bertucci; Hendrik Kriegel; Christopher T. Russell; Michele K. Dougherty is a Physics and Astronomy article available to read on EtoBox.
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current sheet and lobes Cassini flybys Plasma interaction with unmagnetized bodies a b s t r a c t We analyze the variability of the ambient magnetospheric field along Titan's orbit at 20.3 Saturn radii. However, while our preceding study focused on Cassini magnetometer observations from the 62 Titan flybys (TA-T62) between October 2004 and October 2009, the present work discusses magnetic field data that were collected near Titan's orbit when the moon was far away. In analogy to the observations during TA-T62, the magnetospheric fields detected during these 79 ''virtual'' Titan flybys are strongly affected by the presence of Saturn's bowl-shaped and highly dynamic magnetodisk current sheet. We therefore provide a systematic classification of the magnetic field observations as magnetodisk current sheet or lobe-type scenarios. Among the 141 (62 real + 79 virtual) crossings of Titan's orbit between July 2004 and December 2009, only 17 encounters (9 real + 8 virtual) took place within quiet, magnetodisk lobe-type fields. During another 50 encounters (21 real + 29 virtual), rapid transitions between current sheet and lobe fields were observed around the moon's orbital plane. Most of t
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- Author
- Sven Simon; Alexandre Wennmacher; Fritz M. Neubauer; Cesar L. Bertucci; Hendrik Kriegel; Christopher T. Russell; Michele K. Dougherty
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0032-0633)
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)