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Discovery of Alfvén waves planetward of Saturn's rings
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dc.contributor.author | Southwood, D. J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Cao, H. | |
dc.contributor.author | Shebanits, O. | |
dc.contributor.author | Elsden, Tom | |
dc.contributor.author | Hunt, G. J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Dougherty, M. K. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-15T11:30:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-09-15T11:30:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-02-10 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Southwood , D J , Cao , H , Shebanits , O , Elsden , T , Hunt , G J & Dougherty , M K 2021 , ' Discovery of Alfvén waves planetward of Saturn's rings ' , Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics , vol. 126 , no. 2 , e2020JA028473 . https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028473 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2169-9402 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 281239174 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 653693c3-f8ab-4ff5-8a4b-7bd8c3b6f2d3 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-1910-2010/work/118799814 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85101554805 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/26028 | |
dc.description | Funding: Work at Imperial College was supported by UKRI/STFC grants ST/N000692/1 and ST/S000364/1. T. Elsden was funded by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, split jointly by the Leverhulme Trust (ECF-2019-155) and the University of Leicester. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Between April and September 2017 in the final stages of the Cassini Saturn Orbiter mission the spacecraft executed 22 orbits passing planetward of the innermost ring, the D ring. During all periapsis passes oscillations were detected in the azimuthal magnetic field components on typical time scales of a few minutes. We argue that these time varying magnetic signals detected on the spacecraft are also primarily time varying in the plasma frame. Furthermore, we show that nearly all signals exhibit a spatial feature, namely a magnetic node near the effective field line equator. We propose that the oscillations are associated with Alfvén waves excited in local field line resonances, most likely driven from global sources. | |
dc.format.extent | 18 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2020. The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en |
dc.subject | Alfven waves | en |
dc.subject | D-ring | en |
dc.subject | Saturn magnetosphere | en |
dc.subject | QB Astronomy | en |
dc.subject | QC Physics | en |
dc.subject | 3rd-DAS | en |
dc.subject | MCC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QB | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QC | en |
dc.title | Discovery of Alfvén waves planetward of Saturn's rings | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Applied Mathematics | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028473 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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