Titan's highly dynamic magnetic environment: A systematic survey of Cassini magnetometer observations from flybys TAT62

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1230-1251

  Simon, Sven ^a   Wennmacher, Alexandre ^a   Neubauer, Fritz M ^a   Bertucci, Cesar L ^b,c   Kriegel, Hendrik ^d   Saur, Joachim ^a   Russell, Christopher T ^e   Dougherty, Michele K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE ASTRONOMÍA Y FÍSICA DEL ESPACIO   (Argentina)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cassini flybys; Magnetodisk current sheet and lobes; Plasma interaction with unmagnetized bodies; Saturn's magnetosphere; Titan

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND FIELD; CASSINI; CASSINI MAGNETOMETER; CURRENT SHEETS; DISTORTED CURRENTS; EQUILIBRIUM POSITIONS; FLAPPING MOTION; MAGNETIC ENVIRONMENTS; MAGNETODISK CURRENT SHEET AND LOBES; MAGNETOSPHERIC FIELD; NUMERICAL MODELS; ORBITAL PLANES; TIME-SCALES;

MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOMETERS; MAGNETOSPHERE; MOON;

PLASMA INTERACTIONS;

EID: 77955422298     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2010.04.021     Document Type: Article

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