Search for Inclined Features in Saturn's Rings

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Jul 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997dps....29.1709b&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #29, #17.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 29, p.1000

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stellar occultation observations of planetary rings yield high spatial resolution in the ring plane, typically about 1 km at Saturn when observing at visible wavelengths. With several observations of the same ring features, we can model the kinematics of ringlets including eccentricity and inclination. Occultation observations near ring-plane crossings are most sensitive to ringlet inclinations; thus the observation of the stellar occultation by Saturn's rings in November 1995 (Bosh & Olkin 1996, B.A.A.S. 28, 1124) was particularly sensitive to inclinations due to the low opening angle (B ~ 3deg ) at the time of the occultation. These data have resulted in the first detection of an inclined feature in Saturn's rings, the F ring (Olkin & Bosh 1996, B.A.A.S. 28, 1125). We continue this work by investigating the possibility of inclined features elsewhere in Saturn's ring system.

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