Detection of hidden resonances in Saturn's B-ring
- The Voyager 2 Photopolarimeter experiment has yielded the highest resolved data of Saturn's rings, exhibiting a wide variety of features. The B-ring region between 105000 km and 110000 km distance from Saturn has been investigated. It has a high matter density and contains no significance features visible by eye. Analysis with statistical methods has let us to the detection of two significant events. These features are correlated with the inner 3:2 resonances of the F-ring shepherd satellites Pandora and Prometheus, and may be evidence of large ring paricles caught in the corotation resonances.
Author details: | Kai-Uwe Thiessenhusen, Larry W. Esposito, Jürgen KurthsORCiDGND, Frank SpahnORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13618 |
Publication series (Volume number): | NLD Preprints (13) |
Publication type: | Preprint |
Language: | English |
Publication year: | 1995 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2007/06/01 |
Tag: | Planetary Rings |
Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik und Astronomie |
Zentrale und wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen / Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Dynamik komplexer Systeme | |
Extern / Extern | |
DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |