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A Cassini/CAPS Survey of Ionospheric Outflow at Saturn and Its Internal and External Drivers

  • Authors: M. Felici, L. C. Ray, S. V. Badman, O. Agiwal, L. Moore, H. T. Smith, R. J. Wilson, C. J. Martin, L. Gilbert, A. J. Coates, J. M. Jasinski, N. Achilleos, P. Valek, A. Mura

M. Felici et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

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Box plot of ENLIL-modeled solar wind ram pressure (Pram, in nPa on the y-axis) over a ±5 day window centered on each outflow event (24 days), colored by mean ﹩{\mathrm{log}}_{10}(nv)﹩ in m−2 s−1. Open circles mark individual Pram measurements that fall outside 1.5 times the interquartile range of the ±5 day window. A tentative positive correlation is visible between Pram 4–6 days prior to detection and nv, most clearly during northern winter; the correlation weakens toward northern spring. Both quantities are binned in 24 hr intervals. No definitive interpretation is possible given ENLIL’s propagation uncertainty at 9 au (see Section 2).

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