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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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:1361
Date January 1995
CreatorsThiessenhusen, Kai-Uwe, Esposito, Larry W., Kurths, Jürgen, Spahn, Frank
PublisherUniversität Potsdam, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen. Interdisziplinäres Zentrum Dynamik komplexer Systeme, Extern. Extern
Source SetsPotsdam University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypePreprint
Formatapplication/pdf
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