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Saturn kilometric radiation as a monitor for the solar wind?
Dougherty, M. K.; Kurth, W. S.; McComas, D. J. +9 more
Since the Voyager mission it is known that Saturn Kilometric Radiation (SKR) is strongly influenced by external forces, i.e., the solar wind and in particular the solar wind ram pressure. Recent studies using Cassini data essentially confirmed these findings for particular periods during the first Cassini orbit of Saturn. The data coverage of SKR …
Exospheric heating by pickup ions at Titan
Ip, W. -H.; Kopp, A.; Tseng, W. -L.
Titan has a very extensive atmosphere and exosphere which interact strongly with the corotating magnetospheric plasma. Some of the new pickup ions created in the vicinity of the exosphere will re-impact the upper atmosphere causing additional energy input. Previous investigations of the atmospheric collisional interaction of the pickup ions have g…