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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
Volume 119, Issue 3, Pages 1563-1571Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2013JA019632
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- STFC [ST/K001000/1]
- STFC [ST/K001051/1, ST/K001000/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/K001000/1, ST/K001051/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The recent survey by Andrews et al. (2012) of the separate northern and southern similar to 10.7 h periodic magnetic signals in Saturn's magnetosphere limits very much their governing current systems. The existence of signals with pure or close to pure northern or southern periods in respective polar caps taken with the relatively narrow bandwidth of the signals indicates that the actual periodicities are imposed independently from northern and southern polar regions, i.e., the open field line regions. Field-aligned currents must flow on the boundaries of these regions to exclude signals from the other hemisphere. Equatorward of the polar cap, on closed magnetic shells, there are distinct north and south cam source currents, the distinction being made clear by a difference in polarization. We outline the consequences for the governing current systems and the implications for sustaining the energy and power dissipation in the system.
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