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DOI | 10.1029/2020GL088810 |
A long‐lasting auroral spiral rotating around Saturn’s pole | |
B. Palmaerts; Z. H. Yao; N. Sergis; R. L. Guo; D. Grodent; K. Dialynas; J.‐; C. Gerard; D. G. Mitchell | |
2020-11-23 | |
发表期刊 | Geophysical Research Letters |
出版年 | 2020 |
英文摘要 | The main ultraviolet auroral emission at Saturn consists of multiple structures forming a discontinuous ring of emission around the poles, occasionally organized in a global spiral. We present continuous observation of an auroral spiral rotating at ~85 of rigid corotation during several hours. Simultaneously, energetic neutral atom (ENA) emissions revealed a hot magnetospheric plasma population located in the same local time sector as the ends of the rotating spiral. Following plasma theory, we propose that pressure gradients induced by the energized plasma distorted the magnetospheric current system, resulting in the spiral morphology of the aurora. The rotating hot plasma was several times re‐energized in the dusk sector during at least two days, generating a long‐lasting auroral spiral. The ultraviolet spiral, the ENA emissions and the ions revealed by this multi‐instrument dataset are three signatures of a magnetosphere‐ionosphere coupling current system and of the associated hot plasma population rotating around Saturn. |
领域 | 气候变化 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/304821 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | B. Palmaerts,Z. H. Yao,N. Sergis,等. A long‐lasting auroral spiral rotating around Saturn’s pole[J]. Geophysical Research Letters,2020. |
APA | B. Palmaerts.,Z. H. Yao.,N. Sergis.,R. L. Guo.,D. Grodent.,...&D. G. Mitchell.(2020).A long‐lasting auroral spiral rotating around Saturn’s pole.Geophysical Research Letters. |
MLA | B. Palmaerts,et al."A long‐lasting auroral spiral rotating around Saturn’s pole".Geophysical Research Letters (2020). |
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