Avaruustutkimus / Ilmatieteen laitos

Ilkka Sillanpää

Contact information for SwRI: Southwest Research Institute Space Science and Engineering Mailing address: P.O. Drawer 28510 Visiting address: 6220 Culebra Road San Antonio, Texas 78228-0510 United States tel. +1 (210) 522-2740 email firstname.lastname@swri.edu

Contact information for FMI: Finnish Meteorological Institute Mailing address: P.O. Box 503 Visiting address: Erik Palménin aukio 1 FI-00101 Helsinki FINLAND email firstname.lastname@fmi.fi web www.space.fmi.fi/~sillanpi

Three animations from another Titan simulation (opens new windows):
Ion motion - Flow lines are pale blue, planes show the total ion density.
Magnetic field - Flux density of magnetic field on the planes, field lines as yellow lines. Surface covers areas of very weak field.
Methane ions - Methane ions CH₄⁺ escaping from Titan. Density on the planes, flow lines as pale blue lines.

Curriculum Vitae

List of Publications (copies of some articles)

Most recent article: Effect of Oxygen Ions in Titan's Plasma Interaction

Dissertation (permalink: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-697-660-3) for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in planetary physics.
(public defence was on 28 February 2008, see my lectio praecursoria as a power point presentation)

Pro gradu thesis (Magna cum laude) for the degree of Master of Science in theoretical physics
at the University of Helsinki, the Department of Physical Sciences, January 2003.