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Properties of local plasma injections in Saturn's magnetosphere
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Mullard Space Science Lab, University College London, Dorking, Surrey, U. K.
Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, Toulouse, France
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Electron and ion drift dispersion events are often observed by the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) in the inner magnetosphere of Saturn (5 to 10 RS). These events appear to result from azimuthally-limited injections of plasma and persist for at least several hours. During this time, the events can be analyzed to obtain information on the time and azimuthal location of the injections. The CAPS data show evidence of both remote and local injections. In this paper a conceptual model of Saturnian centrifugal interchange is developed based on the characteristics of the local injections.
Received 2 February 2005; accepted 25 March 2005; published 1 June 2005.
Citation: (2005), Properties of local plasma injections in Saturn's magnetosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L14S02, doi:10.1029/2005GL022611.
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