Periodic tilting of Saturn's plasma sheet

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 24, 2008, Pages

  Carbary, J F ^a   Mitchell, D G ^a   Brandt, P ^a   Roelof, E C ^a   Krimigis, S M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN;

CASSINI; FUNCTION OF TIME; IN-PHASE; NEUTRAL HYDROGENS; PHASE ANGLES; PLASMA SHEETS; SATURN KILOMETRIC RADIATIONS; STRAIGHT LINES; TILT ANGLES;

PLASMA SHEATHS;

DIEL VARIATION; PERIODICITY; PLASMA; SATURN; TILT;

EID: 61349134202     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036339     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Acton, C. H. (1996), Ancillary data services of NASA's navigation and ancillary information facility, Planet. Space Sci., 44, 65-70.
2. Arridge, C. S., K. K. Khurana, C. T. Russell, D. J. Southwood, N. Achilleos, M. K. Dougherty, A. J. Coates, and H. K. Leinweber (2008), Warping of Saturn's magnetospheric and magnetotail current sheets, J. Geophys. Res., 113, A08217, doi:10.1029/2007JA012963.
3. Carbary, J. F., and S. M. Krimigis (1982), Charged particle periodicity in the Saturnian magnetosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 9, 1073-1076.
4. Carbary, J. F., D. G. Mitchell, S. M. Krimigis, D. C. Hamilton, and N. Krupp (2007a), Charged particle periodicities in Saturn's outer magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 112, A06246, doi: 10.1029/2007JA012351.
5. Carbary, J. F., D. G. Mitchell, S. M. Krimigis, D. C. Hamilton, and N. Krupp (2007b), Spin-period effects in magnetospheres with no axial tilt, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L18107, doi: 10.1029/2007GL030483.
6. Carbary, J. F., D. G. Mitchell, S. M. Krimigis, and N. Krupp (2007c), Evidence for spiral pattern in Saturn's magnetosphere using the new SKR longitudes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L13105, doi: 10.1029/ 2007GL030167.
7. Carbary, J. F., D. G. Mitchell, P. Brandt, E. C. Roelof, and S. M. Krimigis (2008), Track analysis of energetic neutral atom blobs at Saturn, J. Geo-phys. Res., 113, A01209, doi:10.1029/2007JA012708.
8. Davies, M. E., et al. (1996), Report for the IAU/IAG/COSPAR working group on cartographic coordinates and rotational elements of the planets and satellites: 1994, Celestial Mech. Dyn. Astron., 63, 127-148.
9. Davis, L., and E. J. Smith (1990), A model of Saturn's magnetic field based on all available data, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 15,257-15,261.
10. Desch, M. D., and M. I., Kaiser (1981), Voyager measurements of the rotation period of Saturn's magnetic field, Geophys. Res. Lett., 8, 253-256.
11. Dessler, A. J., and T. W. Hill (1975), High order magnetic monopoles as a source of gross asymmetry in the distant Jovian magnetotail, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2, 567-570.
12. Dougherty, M. K., et al. (2005), Cassini magnetometer observations during Saturn orbit insertion, Science, 307, 1266-1270, doi: 10.1026/ science. 1106098.
13. Espinosa, S. A., and M. K. Dougherty (2000), Periodic perturbations in Saturn's magnetic field, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 2785-2788.
14. Espinosa, S. A., D. J. Southwood, and M. K. Dougherty (2003), How can Saturn impose its rotation period in a noncorotating magnetosphere?, J. Geophys. Res., 108(A2), 1086, doi: 10.1029/2001JA005084.
15. Galopeau, P. H. M., and A. Lecacheux (2000), Variations of Saturn's radio period measured at kilometer wavelengths, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 13,089-13,101.
16. Giampieri, G., M. K. Dougherty, E. J. Smith, and C. T. Russell (2006), A regular period for Saturn's magnetic field that may track its internal rotation, Nature, 441, 62-64, doi:10.1038/nature04750.
17. Goldrcich, P., and A. J. Farmer (2007), Spontaneous axisymmetry breaking of the external magnetic field at Saturn, J. Geophys. Res., 112, A05225, doi:10.1029/2006JA012163.
18. Gurnett, D. A., et al. (2005), Radio and plasma wave observations at Saturn from Cassini's approach and first orbit, Science, 307, 1255-1259. doi:10.1026/science.1138562.
19. Gurnett, D. A., A. M. Persoon, W. S. Kurth, J. B. Groene, T. F. Averkamp, M. K. Dougherty, and D. J. Southwood (2007), The variable rotation period of the inner region of Saturn's plasma disk, Science, 316, 442-445, doi: 10.1026/science.1138562.
20. Khurana, K. K., D. G. Mitchell, C. S. Arridge, M. K. Dougherty, C. T. Russell, C. Paranicas, N. Krupp, and A. J. Coates (2008), Sources of rotational signals in Saturn's magnetosphere, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/ 2008JA013312, in press.
21. Krimigis, S. M., et al., (2004), Magnetospheric imaging instrument (MIMI) on the Cassini mission to Saturn/Titan, Space Sci. Rev., 114, 233-329.
22. Kurth, W. S., T. F. Averkamp, D. A. Gurnett, J. B. Groene, and A. Lecacheux (2008), An update to a Saturnian longitude system based on kilometric radio emissions, J. Geophys. Res., 113, A05222, doi: 10.1029/ 2007JA012861.
23. + from IMAGE/HENA, Space Sci. Rev., 109, 63-75.
24. Nichols, J. D., J. T. Clarke, S. W. H. Cowley, J. Duval, A. J. Farmer, J.-C. Gérard, D. Grodent, and S. Wannawichian (2008), Oscillation of Saturn's southern auroral oval, J. Geophys. Res., 113, Al 1205, doi:10.1029/ 2008JA013444.
25. Paranicas, C., D. G. Mitchell, E. C. Roelof, P. C. Brandt, D. J. Williams, S. M. Krimigis, and B. H., Mauk (2005), Periodic intensity variations in global ENA images of Saturn, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L21101, doi:10.1029/2005GL023656.
26. Press, W. H., S. A. Teukelosky, W. T. Vetterling, and B. P. Flannery (1992), Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing, 2nd ed., Cambridge Univ. Press, 631 pp., Cambridge, U. K.
27. Richardson, J. D. (1998), Thermal plasma and neutral gas in Saturn's magnetosphere, Rev. Geophys., 36(4), 501-524.
28. Southwood, D. J., and M. G. Kivelson (2007), Saturnian magnetospheric dynamics: Elucidation of a camshaft model, J. Geophys. Res., 112, A12222, doi: 10.1029/2007JA012254.