The interaction between Saturn’s moons and their plasma environments
The interaction between Saturn’s moons and their plasma environments
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土星卫星与其等离子体环境之间的相互作用
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10.1016/j.physrep.2015.09.005
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C.S. Paty
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S. Simon;E. Roussos;C.S. Paty
Since the arrival of the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn in July 2004, newly collected plasma and magnetic field data have greatly expanded our knowledge on the interaction between the giant planet’s multifaceted family of moons and its magnetospheric environment. Cassini has already accomplished more than 200 orbits around Saturn, encompassing 111 flybys of the giant planet’s largest moon Titan and 20 encounters of Enceladus. This small icy moon had been identified as the major source of magnetospheric plasma and neutral particles during the first year of Cassini’s tour in the Saturnian system. In addition, the spacecraft has paid visits to several other icy satellites in the inner and middle magnetosphere: Rhea, Dione and Tethys. Depending on the ambient magnetospheric flow parameters as well as the properties of its atmosphere/ionosphere and surface, each of these moons generates a characteristic and unique set of perturbation signatures in the magnetospheric plasma incident upon it. Therefore, observations made during close flybys of Saturn’s moons by the Cassini plasma and magnetic field detectors contain valuable diagnostic information on the properties of the moons’ atmospheres, surfaces and even their interiors. However, the spacecraft can measure these plasma and magnetic field perturbations only along its trajectory, whereas the interaction between the moons and their plasma environments constitutes a complex three-dimensional process. Therefore, sophisticated models are required in order to place the data collected along Cassini’s flyby trajectories within the context of the full three-dimensional moon–plasma interaction scenarios. In this review, we combine observations from the Cassini mission with sophisticated modeling results to draw a comprehensive picture of the interaction between Saturn’s largest moons and their highly dynamic plasma environments.
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