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The orientation of Titan's dayside ionosphere and its effects on Titan's plasma interaction

Brecht, Stephen H.; Ledvina, Stephen A.; Cravens, Thomas E.

A hybrid particle code has been used to examine how Titan's interaction with Saturn's magnetosphere is effected by the orientation of the dayside ionosphere with respect to the incident magnetospheric flow. The hybrid code self-consistently includes a version of Titan's ionosphere represented by 7 generic ion species, over 40 ionneutral chemical r…