期刊
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
卷 125, 期 9, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2020JA027907
关键词
magnetic reconnection; PPO; Saturn; magnetotail; auroral storms
资金
- STFC Consolidated Grant [ST/N000749/1]
- STFC Quota Studentship [ST/N504117/1]
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- CNES program of CNRS/INSU
- PNP/PNST program of CNRS/INSU
- UKRI/STFC [ST/N000692/1]
- STFC [ST/N000692/1, ST/N000749/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We examine the final 44 orbits of the Cassini spacecraft traversing the midnight sector of Saturn's magnetosphere to distances of similar to 21 Saturn radii, to investigate responses to heliospheric conditions inferred from model solar wind and Cassini galactic cosmic ray flux data. Clear storm responses to anticipated magnetospheric compressions are observed in magnetic field and energetic particle data, together with Saturn kilometric radiation (SKR), auroral hiss, and ultraviolet auroral emissions. Most compression events are associated with corotating interaction regions, producing similar to 2-3.5 day intervals of magnetospheric activity that are recurrent with the similar to 26 day solar rotation period (one or two such events per rotation), though one on the final pass is related to a nonrecurrent interplanetary shock possibly associated with an earlier X-class solar flare. The response to compressions is modulated by the concurrent relative phasing of the northern and southern planetary period oscillation (PPO) systems, with long (>1 planetary rotation) SKR low-frequency extension (LFE) intervals associated with strong field-aligned coupling currents being favored when the two PPO systems act together to thin and thicken the tail plasma sheet during each PPO cycle. LFE onsets/intensifications are then favored at thin plasma sheet phases most unstable to reconnection, producing energetic nightside particle injections and poleward contractions of dawn-brightened auroras. Correspondingly, solar rotation recurrent intervals of magnetospheric quiet conditions also occur with weak energetic particle fluxes and auroral emissions, associated with extended solar wind rarefactions. Overall, the results emphasize how strongly activity in Saturn's magnetosphere is modulated by concurrent heliospheric conditions.
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