Planetary Radio Emissions VI

The 6th International Workshop on Planetary and Solar Radio Emissions" is now an established tradition: This PRE VI conference was a continuation of successful international workshops held at Graz, Austria, in 1984, 1987, 1991, 1996, and 2001. This 6th workshop in April 2005 offered the unique opportunity to discuss the observations from Cassini approaching Saturn and to investigate the measurements retrieved during the first orbits of Cassini around Saturn after Saturn Orbit Insertion on July 1, 2004. A number of contributions deal with these novel findings putting Saturn and its radio wave phenomena, in particular the Saturn Kilometric Radiation SKR and the Saturn Electrostatic Discharges SEDs (lightning phenomena in Saturn’s atmosphere), into the focal point of interest. However, other planetary radio components from Earth and Jupiter have also been addressed, the latter under the aspect on the occasion of a great anniversary: April 2005 was almost exactly 50 years after the serendipitous discovery of Jupiter as a radio emitter, by Bernie Burke and Ken Franklin, both with contributions of personal reminiscences in this proceedings, and Bernie personally attending the workshop. Solar electromagnetic radiation, in many aspects different with regard to planetary radio emission, was highlighted by the upcoming NASA Stereo mission which will, for the first time provide a stereoscopic view of the sun and its environment. The volume "PRE VI comes along with a CD-ROM covering all previous workshops PRE I through VI and provides an almost complete coverage of this research topic over more than two decades.