title: Titan's magnetic field signature during the first Cassini encounter.
abstract: The magnetic field signature obtained by Cassini during its first close encounter with Titan on 26 October 2004 is presented and explained in terms of an advanced model. Titan was inside the saturnian magnetosphere. A magnetic field minimum before closest approach marked Cassini's entry into the magnetic ionopause layer. Cassini then left the northern and entered the southern magnetic tail lobe. The magnetic field before and after the encounter was approximately constant for approximately 20 Titan radii, but the field orientation changed exactly at the location of Titan's orbit. No evidence of an internal magnetic field at Titan was detected.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Geophysik und Meteorologie, Universität zu Köln, Albertus Magnus Platz, 50678 Cologne, Germany. backes@geo.uni-koeln.de
authors.forename: Heiko
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Backes
authors.forename: Fritz M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Neubauer
authors.forename: Michele K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Dougherty
authors.forename: Nicholas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Achilleos
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: André
authors.forename: Christopher S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Arridge
authors.forename: Cesar
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bertucci
authors.forename: Geraint H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Krishan K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Khurana
authors.forename: Christopher T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Russell
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wennmacher
mesh_terms: D001272:Atmosphere; D005118:Extraterrestrial Environment; D008280:Magnetics; D018539:Saturn; D018531:Spacecraft