HR: 14:55h
AN: U23A-06 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Plasma Interactions with Titan
AU: * Gombosi, T I
EM: tamas@umich.edu
AF: Center for Space Environment Modeling, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143 United States
AU: Hansen, K C
EM: kenhan@umcih.edu
AF: Center for Space Environment Modeling, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143 United States
AU: Ma, Y
EM: yingjuan@umich.edu
AF: Center for Space Environment Modeling, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143 United States
AU: Nagy, A
EM: anagy@umich.edu
AF: Center for Space Environment Modeling, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143 United States
AB: Depending on the solar wind conditions, Titan spends a significant fraction of its orbital period in the Saturnian magnetosheath and in the magnetosphere. This talk explores the various plasma conditions encountered by Titan and Titan's highly variable plasma interactions under these conditions. We also show detailed simulations of Titan's global plasma interaction including its main ionosphere region, and compare the simulation results with in-situ observations obtained with the Cassini/Huygens mission. We conclude that the overall agreement is quite good, but there are still many physical processes to be understood.
DE: 5405 Atmospheres (0343, 1060)
DE: 5410 Composition (1060, 3672)
DE: 5421 Interactions with particles and fields
DE: 5470 Surface materials and properties
DE: 6280 Saturnian satellites
SC: Union [U]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005