HR: 10:45h
AN: SM12A-02    [Abstracts]
TI: Energetic ion acceleration in Saturn's magnetotail: Substorms on Saturn?
AU: * Mitchell, D G
EM: don.mitchell@jhuapl.edu
AF: JHU/APL, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723 United States
AU: Brandt, P C
EM: pontus.brandt@jhuapl.edu
AF: JHU/APL, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723 United States
AU: Roelof, E C
EM: edmond.roelof@jhuapl.edu
AF: JHU/APL, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723 United States
AU: Dandouras, I M
EM: iannis.dandouras@cesr.fr
AF: CESR, 9 ave de Colonel Roche, Toulouse, BP 4346 France
AU: Krimigis, S M
EM: tom.krimigis@jhuapl.edu
AF: JHU/APL, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723 United States
AU: Mauk, B H
EM: barry.mauk@jhuapl.edu
AF: JHU/APL, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723 United States
AU: Krupp, N
EM: krupp@linmpi.mpg.de
AF: Max-Planck-Institut f�r Sonnensystemforschung, Max Planck Strasse 2, Katlenburg-Lindau, D-37191 Germany
AU: Hamilton, D C
EM: dh7@umail.umd.edu
AF: University of Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 United States
AU: Kurth, W S
EM: wsk@space.physics.uiowa.edu
AF: The University of Iowa, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 United States
AU: Zarka, P
EM: Philippe.Zarka@obspm.fr
AF: Observatoire de Paris, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, 92195 France
AU: Dougherty, M K
EM: m.dougherty@imperial.ac.uk
AF: Imperial College London, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ United Kingdom
AU: Bunce, E J
EM: ejb10@ion.le.ac.uk
AF: University of Leicester, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH United Kingdom
AU: Shemansky, D E
EM: dons@hippolyta.usc.edu
AF: University of Southern California, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 United States
AB: The Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument (MIMI) Ion and Neutral Camera (INCA) on the Cassini spacecraft has recorded abrupt increases in energetic neutral atom flux coming from the general direction of Saturn's magnetotail. These bursts of ion activity in the tail seem to be related to solar wind magnetic field direction as well as the passage of compression regions, and are well correlated with enhancements in the Saturn kilometric radiation. Given the similarities between these events and substorm activity on Earth, including their dependence on interplanetary conditions, we conclude that Earth-like substorms occur within Saturn's magnetosphere. Unlike Earth, the hot plasma is quickly convected about Saturn at close to corotation speed.
DE: 2732 Magnetosphere interactions with satellites and rings
DE: 2740 Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics
DE: 2784 Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions
DE: 2788 Storms and substorms
DE: 6275 Saturn
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly