Rapid electron acceleration in low density regions of Saturn's radiation belt by whistler mode chorus waves
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Abstract:
Radiation belts are hazardous regions found around several of the planets in our Solar System. They consist of very hot, electrically charged particles that are trapped in the magnetic field of the planet. At Saturn the most important way to heat these particles has for many years been thought to involve the particles drifting closer towards the planet. This paper adds to the emerging idea at Saturn that a different way to heat the particles is also possible where the heating is done by waves, in a similar way to what we find at the Earth. This work is reported in the paper "Rapid electron acceleration in low density regions of Saturn's radiation belt by whistler mode chorus waves" by E.E. Woodfield et al., 2019. The data provided here enable reconstruction of all the figures in the paper.
The research leading to these results has received funding from:
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK, grants NE/R016038/1 and NE/R016445/1
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UK, grants ST/I001727/1 and ST/M00130X/1.
NASA grants NNX11AM36G and NNX16AI47G.
The research at the University of Iowa was supported by NASA through Contract 1415150 with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
European Council (EC) grant H2020 637302.
Keywords:
Radiation Belt, Saturn, magnetosphere, plasma waves, wave-particle interactions
Citation
Woodfield, E., Glauert, S., Menietti, J., Averkamp, T., Horne, R., & Shprits, Y. (2019). Rapid electron acceleration in low density regions of Saturn's radiation belt by whistler mode chorus waves (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/ae5116a5-fc16-464c-9c26-e395f897a8e4
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Basic Information
| Creation Date: | 2019-05-22 |
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| Dataset Progress: | Complete |
| Dataset Language: | English |
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| Personnel: | |
| Name | UK Polar Data Centre |
| Role(s) | Metadata Author |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Emma Woodfield |
| Role(s) | Investigator, Technical Contact |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Sarah Glauert |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | J. D Menietti |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | University of Iowa |
| Name | Terrance F Averkamp |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | University of Iowa |
| Name | Prof Richard Horne |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Yuri Y Shprits |
| Role(s) | Technical Contact |
| Organisation | GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences |
| Parent Dataset: | N/A |
Additional Information
| Quality: | The wave data have been calibrated and quality-controlled prior to release. | |
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| Lineage/Methodology: | The NASA Cassini wave data used in this study comes from the RWPS Instrument and is freely available at the NASA Planetary Data System Website: http://pds.nasa.gov . The data archived here is from the figures in the paper and consists of model and simulation data as well as analysis of the Cassini wave data. Full details of the analysis and simulations are in the paper this data relates to. | |
Locality
| Temporal Coverage: | |
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| Start Date | 2005-01-15 |
| End Date | 2017-04-26 |
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| Location | N/A |
| Detailed Location | Saturn (2.5 Saturn radii to 7.5 Saturn radii where 1 Saturn radius = 60330 km) |
Storage
| Data Storage: | There are 6 ASCII text files - one for each figure except figure 1 which can be reproduced using the details given in the paper. The format of each file is described at the top of each file. |
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