Energetic environment at Titan's orbit
Abstract
A statistical study of the energetic plasma environment at Titan's orbit is presented. Using data from the MIMI/LEMMS instrument on board Cassini, ion and electron spectra from more than 10 years are analyzed in order to study the dependence of different factors such as average fluxes or spectral indices with magnetospheric environment derived from thermal plasma and magnetic field data or Saturn Local Time (SLT). The non-negligible field-aligned velocity of the energetic ions and electrons allows them to travel farther from the magnetic equator when compared to lower-energy particles, making it difficult to distinguish among different magnetospheric environments by means of the energetic plasma fluxes. Some asymmetries in terms of SLT are observed, especially on the ion data.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016AGUFMSM41D2464R
- Keywords:
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- 2732 Magnetosphere interactions with satellites and rings;
- MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICSDE: 6025 Interactions with solar wind plasma and fields;
- PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIESDE: 6218 Jovian satellites;
- PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTSDE: 6280 Saturnian satellites;
- PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS