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Title: Plasma waves near Saturn: initial results from Voyager 1. Progress report

Abstract

The Voyager 1 plasma wave instrument detected many familiar types of plasma waves during the encounter with Saturn, including ion-acoustic waves and electron plasma oscillations upstream of the bow shock, an intense burst of electrostatic noise at the shock, and chorus, hiss, electrostatic (n + 1/2)fg waves and UHR emissions in the inner magnetosphere. A clock-like Saturn rotational control of low-frequency radio emissions was observed, and evidence was obtained of possible control by the moon Dione. Strong plasma wave emissions were detected at the Titan encounter indicating the presence of a turbulent sheath extending around Titan, and UHR measurements of the electron density show the existence of a dense plume of plasma being carried downstream of Titan by the interaction with the rapidly rotating magnetosphere of Saturn.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Iowa Univ., Iowa City (USA). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
OSTI Identifier:
5701374
Report Number(s):
AD-A-096321/5
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; SATURN PLANET; PLASMA WAVES; ELECTRON DENSITY; ION ACOUSTIC WAVES; PLANETARY MAGNETOSPHERES; RADIOWAVE RADIATION; SHOCK WAVES; SPACE VEHICLES; VOYAGER SPACE PROBES; ATMOSPHERES; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ION WAVES; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES; PLANETS; RADIATIONS; VEHICLES; 640107* - Astrophysics & Cosmology- Planetary Phenomena

Citation Formats

Gurnett, D A, Kurth, W S, and Scarf, F L. Plasma waves near Saturn: initial results from Voyager 1. Progress report. United States: N. p., 1981. Web.
Gurnett, D A, Kurth, W S, & Scarf, F L. Plasma waves near Saturn: initial results from Voyager 1. Progress report. United States.
Gurnett, D A, Kurth, W S, and Scarf, F L. 1981. "Plasma waves near Saturn: initial results from Voyager 1. Progress report". United States.
@article{osti_5701374,
title = {Plasma waves near Saturn: initial results from Voyager 1. Progress report},
author = {Gurnett, D A and Kurth, W S and Scarf, F L},
abstractNote = {The Voyager 1 plasma wave instrument detected many familiar types of plasma waves during the encounter with Saturn, including ion-acoustic waves and electron plasma oscillations upstream of the bow shock, an intense burst of electrostatic noise at the shock, and chorus, hiss, electrostatic (n + 1/2)fg waves and UHR emissions in the inner magnetosphere. A clock-like Saturn rotational control of low-frequency radio emissions was observed, and evidence was obtained of possible control by the moon Dione. Strong plasma wave emissions were detected at the Titan encounter indicating the presence of a turbulent sheath extending around Titan, and UHR measurements of the electron density show the existence of a dense plume of plasma being carried downstream of Titan by the interaction with the rapidly rotating magnetosphere of Saturn.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5701374}, journal = {},
number = ,
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place = {United States},
year = {Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 1981},
month = {Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 1981}
}

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