KU Physics Department Prof. Thomas E. Cravens is a member of the Cassini INMS team.

The Cassini Spacecraft

Selected Publications:

2000-Present

• The Ion Composition of Saturn’s Equatorial Ionosphere as Observed by Cassini, T. E. Cravens, L. Moore, J. H. Waite Jr., R. Perryman, M. Perry, J.-E. Wahlund, A. Persoon, and W. S. Kurth, Geophysical Research Letters, online, doi:10.1029/2018GL077868, 2018. Link to full article, accepted version.

• Ion Energy Distributions and Densities in the Plume of Enceladus, S. Sakai, T. E. Cravens, N. Omidi, Mark Perry, and J. H. Waite Jr., Planetary and Space Science, 130, 60, doi:10.1016/j.pss.2016.05.007, 2016. Abstract and link to full article.

• Modeling of Electron Fluxes in the Enceladus Plume, N. Ozak, T. E. Cravens, G. H. Jones, A. J. Coates, and I. P. Robertson, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, A06220, doi:10.1029/2011JA017497, 2012. Abstract and link to full article.

• Electron Energetics in the Enceladus Torus, T. E. Cravens, N. Ozak, M. S. Richard, M. E. Campbell, I. P. Robertson, M. Perry, and A. M. Rymer, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, A09205, doi:10.1029/2011JA016498, 2011. Abstract and link to full article.

• The Plume Ionosphere of Enceladus as Seen by the Cassini Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer, T. E. Cravens, R. L. McNutt Jr., J. H. Waite Jr., I. P. Robertson, J. G. Luhmann, W. Kasprzak, and W.-I. Ip, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L08106, doi:10.1029/2009GL037811, 2009. Abstract and link to full article.

• Cassini Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer: Enceladus Plume Composition and Structure, J. H. Waite Jr., M. R. Combi, W.-H. Ip, T. E. Cravens, R. L. McNutt, W. Kasprzak, R. Yelle, J. G. Luhmann, H. Niemann, D. Gell, B. Magee, G. Fletcher, J. Lunine, and W. L. Tseng, Science, 311, 1419, doi:10.1126/science.1121290, 2006. Abstract and link to full article.

• A Model of the Ionosphere of Saturn's Rings and Its Implications, J. G. Luhmann, R. E. Johnson, R. L. Tokar, S. A. Ledvina, and T. E. Cravens, Icarus, 181(2), 465, 2006. Abstract and link to full article.

• Oxygen Ions Observed Near Saturn's A-Ring, J. H. Waite, Jr., T. E. Cravens, W.-H. Ip, W. T. Kasprzak, J. G. Luhmann, R. L. McNutt, H. B. Niemann, R. V. Yelle, I. Mueller-Wodarg, S. A. Ledvina, and S. Scherer, Science, 307, 1260, doi:10.1126/science.1105734, 2005. Abstract and link to full article.

• Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer Results from the First Flyby of Titan, J. H. Waite Jr., H. Niemann, R. V. Yelle, W. T. Kasprzak, T. E. Cravens, J. G. Luhmann, R. L. McNutt, W.-I. Ip, D. Gell, V. de la Haye, I. Muller-Wordag, Brian Magee, N. Borggren. S. L. Ledvina, Greg Fletcher, E. Walter, R. Miller, S. Scherer, Rob Thorpe, Jing Xu, Bruce Block, and Ken Arnett, Science, 308, 982, doi:10.1126/science.1110652, 2005. Abstract and link to full article.

• Ion Trajectories in Saturn's Magnetosphere Near Titan, S. A. Ledvina, T. E. Cravens, A. Salman, and K. Kecskemety, Advances in Space Research, 26, 1691, doi:10.1016/S0273-1177(00)00075-2, 2000. Abstract and link to full article.

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