期刊
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
卷 119, 期 4, 页码 2563-2578出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2013JA019684
关键词
Saturn; magnetopause; reconnection
资金
- Southwest Research Institute by the Cassini data analysis contract [NAS703001TONMO711123/1405851]
- NSF [1303186]
- JAXA International Top Young Fellowship Program
- STFC [ST/G008493/1, ST/H004130/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/G008493/1, ST/H004130/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- UK Space Agency [ST/J004758/1, ST/M003132/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1303186] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Data from the Cassini Electron Spectrometer are used to investigate the location of magnetic reconnection at Saturn's magnetopause. Heated, streaming electron distributions in the boundary layer on the magnetosheath side of the magnetopause are evidence of reconnection and an open magnetopause. A model for the location of reconnection is used to compare the modeled and observed streaming direction of the heated electron distributions. Magnetic reconnection at Saturn's magnetopause is predicted and observed to occur at locations similar to those at Earth's magnetopause. Although not conclusive, the results here are consistent with the expected importance of X-line drifts in suppressing low-shear reconnection. Because of different conditions at Saturn's magnetopause, this suppression is predicted to be more severe at Saturn than at Earth.
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