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The variation in the intensity of cosmic rays at small angular scales is attributed to the interstellar turbulence in the vicinity of the Solar system. We show that {a turbulent origin of the small-scale structures implies that} the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Rahul Kumar , Noemie Globus , David Eichler , Martin Pohl

Unlike the Solar System planets, thousands of smaller bodies beyond Neptune orbit the Sun on eccentric ($e >$ 0.1) and ($i>$ 3$^\circ$) orbits. While migration of the giant planets during the early stages of Solar System evolution can…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Susanne Pfalzner , Amith Govind , Simon Portegies Zwart

During Cassini flyby of Saturn at a radial distance 6.18R_s (Saturn Radius), a signal was detected from about 200 to 430 Hz that had the proper dispersion characteristics to be a whistler. The frequency-time dispersion of the whistler was…

Space Physics · Physics 2012-07-30 Mohsen Hassanzadeh Moghimi

Saturn's C ring contains multiple structures that appear to be density waves driven by time-variable anomalies in the planet's gravitational field. Semi-empirical extensions of density wave theory enable the observed wave properties to be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-24 M. M. Hedman , P. D. Nicholson , M. El Moutamid , S. Smotherman

We present a validation of the long-period ($91.68278^{+0.00032}_{-0.00041}$ days) transiting sub-Neptune planet TOI-1221 b (TIC 349095149.01) around a Sun-like (m$_{\rm V}$=10.5) star. This is one of the few known exoplanets with period…

In this article I summarize the current state of knowledge about the composition of Titan's atmosphere, and our current understanding of the suggested chemistry that leads to that observed composition. I begin with our present knowledge of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 Conor A. Nixon

We present a detailed study of thermal and electrical transport behavior of single crystal Titanium disulphide flakes, which belongs to the two dimensional, transition metal dichalcogenide class of materials. In-plane Seebeck effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 Dhavala Suri , Vantari Siva , Shalikram Joshi , Kartik Senapati , P. K. Sahoo , Shikha Varma , R. S. Patel

Natural satellite systems present a large variety of orbital configurations in the solar system. While some are clearly the result of known processes, others still have largely unexplained eccentricity and inclination values. Iapetus has a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 William Polycarpe , Melaine Saillenfest , Valéry Lainey , Alain Vienne , Benoît Noyelles , Nicolas Rambaux

Of the C$_{3}$H$_{x}$ hydrocarbons, propane (C${_3}$H$_{8}$) and propyne (methylacetylene, CH$_{3}$C$_{2}$H) were first detected in Titan's atmosphere during the Voyager 1 flyby in 1980. Propene (propylene, C$_{3}$H$_{6}$) was first…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-13 Nicholas A Lombardo , Conor A Nixon , Richard K Achterberg , Antoine Jolly , Keeyoon Sung , Patrick G J Irwin , F Michael Flasar

We used FUSE to observe ultraviolet emission from diffuse O VI in the hot gas in the Galactic halo. By comparing our result with another, nearby observation blocked by an opaque cloud at a distance of 230 pc, we could subtract off the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Robin L. Shelton , Shauna M. Sallmen , Edward B. Jenkins

The Cassini mission unveiled the intense and diverse activity in Saturn's atmosphere: banded jets, waves, vortices, equatorial oscillations. To set the path towards a better understanding of those phenomena, we performed high-resolution…

According to clues left by the Cassini mission, Titan, one of the two Solar System bodies with a hydrologic cycle, may harbor liquid hydrocarbon-based analogs of our terrestrial aquifers, referred to as "alkanofers". On the Earth, petroleum…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Daniel Cordier , David A. Bonhommeau , Tuan H. Vu , Mathieu Choukroun , Fernando Garcia-Sanchez

(Abridged) Short-period gas giant exoplanets are susceptible to intense atmospheric escape due to their large scale heights and strong high-energy irradiation. This process is thought to occur ubiquitously, but to date we have only detected…

The spatial distribution and polarization of Saturn narrowband (NB) emissions have been studied by using Cassini Radio and Plasma Wave Sciences data and goniopolarimetric data obtained through an inversion algorithm with a preset source…

Saturn's largest icy moon, Rhea, hosts a tenuous surface-sputtered exosphere composed primarily of molecular oxygen and carbon dioxide. In this Letter, we examine Cassini Plasma Spectrometer velocity space distributions near Rhea and…

Aims: We investigate the composition of Titan's stratosphere from new medium-resolution far-infrared observations performed with the full range of Herschel's Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) (51-220 $\mu$m at a resolution…

11 transient bright flashes were detected in Jupiter's atmosphere using the UVS instrument on the Juno spacecraft. These bright flashes are only observed in a single spin of the spacecraft and their brightness decays exponentially with…

Saturn's F ring is subject to dynamic structural changes over short periods. Among the observed phenomena are diffuse extended bright clumps (ECs) ~ 3-40 degrees in longitudinal extent. These ECs appear, evolve, and disappear over a span of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-13 Robert S. French , Shannon K. Hicks , Mark R. Showalter , Adrienne K. Antonsen , Douglas R. Packard

Voyager images and Cassini occultation data have previously shown that the behavior of the outer edge of Saturn's massive B ring is determined only in part by a static response to the 2:1 inner Lindblad resonance with Mimas. In Cassini…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Joseph N. Spitale , Carolyn C. Porco

Jupiter was discovered to be a source of high speed dust particles by the Ulysses spacecraft in 1992. These dust particles originate from the volcanic plumes on Io. They collect electrostatic charges from the plasma environment, gain energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Harald Krueger , Mihaly Horanyi , Eberhard Gruen