Titan conductivities (Cassini)

Published: 13 January 2023| Version 2 | DOI: 10.17632/hwc5wfbvj9.2
Contributor:
Oleg Shebanits

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This is the dataset for the article "Conductivities of Titan's dusty ionosphere", Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, DOI: 10.1029/2021JA029910 Please see the article for the description and references for data derivations. ephemerides.xlsx contents (one flyby per sheet): UTC time stamp altitude [km] altitude above Titan surface sc_Velocity [km/s] magnitude of Cassini spacecraft velocity Solar_Zenith_Angle [degrees] angle from the Sun direction (X-axis in solar ecliptic coordinates) sub_solar_lat [degrees] of sub-solar latitude (i.e. Titan geographic latitude where Sun is in zenith) Saturn_Local_time [hours] azimuthal coordinate of Cassini with respect to Saturn Local_Time [hours] azimuthal coordinate of Cassini with respect to Titan Lat [degrees] Titan geographic latitude West_Long [degrees] Titan geographic longitude, counted westward Rx_ecl_km, Ry_ecl_km, Rz_ecl_km [km] Titan-centered solar ecliptic coordinates of Cassini (X-axis towards Sun, Z-axis is the component of Titan angular rotation vector orthogonal to X, Y-axis completes right-handed set) input_data.xlsx contents (one flyby per sheet) % <variable>_err is the 2-sigma uncertainty in the same units as the variable UTC time stamp N2 [cm^-3] molecular nitrogen number density CH4 [cm^-3] methane number density Ne [cm^-3] electron charge density Ni [cm^-3] positive ion charge density ZN [cm^-3] negative dust charge number density Te [K] electron temperature Ti [K] positive ion temperature Td [K] negative dust temperature Zd mean negative dust charge number Mi [amu] mean positive ion mass Md [amu] mean negative ion mass B [T] magnetic field conductivities.xlsx contents (one flyby per sheet): % <variable>_err is the 2-sigma uncertainty in the same units as the variable UTC time stamp nyElectrons [s^-1] total electron momentum transfer collision frequency nyIons [s^-1] total positive ion momentum transfer collision frequency nyDust [s^-1] total negative dust momentum transfer collision frequency sig_Parallel [S/m] field-parallel conductivity sig_Pedersen [S/m] Pedersen conductivity sig_Hall [S/m] Hall conductivity casesl.xlsx contents (one time stamp per sheet): % <variable>_err is the 2-sigma uncertainty in the same units as the variable UTC time stamp altitude [km] altitude above Titan surface Zd mean negative dust charge number sig_Par [S/m] field-parallel conductivity for given Zd sig_P [S/m] Pedersen conductivity for given Zd sig_H [S/m] Hall conductivity for given Zd mi_spec [amu] positive ion mass spectra (INMS & IBS combined) Ni_spec [cm^-3] positive ion charge density as a function of mass md_spec [amu] negative dust/ion mass spectra (ELS) Nd_spec [cm^-3] negative dust/ion charge density as a function of mass

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Please see the associated article for the description and references for data derivations.

Institutions

Southwest Research Institute, Imperial College London, Institutet for rymdfysik Uppsala

Categories

Electrical Conductivity, Planetary Ionosphere

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