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Titan's ionosphere in the magnetosheath: Cassini RPWS results during the T32 flyby

Gurnett, D. A.; Garnier, P.; Krimigis, S. M. +11 more

The Cassini mission has provided much information about the Titan environment, with numerous low altitude encounters with the moon being always inside the magnetosphere. The only encounter taking place outside the magnetopause, in the magnetosheath, occurred the 13 June 2007 (T32 flyby). This paper is dedicated to the analysis of the Radio and Pla…

Titan's plasma environment during a magnetosheath excursion: Real-time scenarios for Cassini's T32 flyby from a hybrid simulation

Coates, A. J.; Dougherty, M. K.; Saur, J. +5 more

With a Saturnian magnetopause average stand-off distance of about 21 planetary radii, Titan spends most of its time inside the rotating magnetosphere of its parent planet. However, when Saturn's magnetosphere is compressed due to high solar wind dynamic pressure, Titan can cross Saturn's magnetopause in the subsolar region of its orbit and therefo…

Quasiperiodic ULF-pulsations in Saturn's magnetosphere

Krupp, N.; Dougherty, M. K.; Glassmeier, K. -H. +2 more

Recent magnetic field investigations made onboard the Cassini spacecraft in the magnetosphere of Saturn show the existence of a variety of ultra low frequency plasma waves. Their frequencies suggest that they are presumably not eigenoscillations of the entire magnetospheric system, but excitations confined to selected regions of the magnetosphere.…