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Sep 1982
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982icar...51..509v&link_type=abstract
Icarus, vol. 51, Sept. 1982, p. 509-527. Navy-supported research;
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Charged Particles, Energetic Particles, Magnetically Trapped Particles, Saturn Rings, Saturn Satellites, Pioneer 11 Space Probe, Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Voyager 2 Spacecraft
Scientific paper
The introductory part of this paper gives a short account of the theory of absorption by planetary rings and satellites of energetic charged particles that are trapped in a planet's magnetic field and describes the observable consequences of such absorption processes. The previously published University of Iowa observations of absorption features during Pioneer 11's passage through Saturn's inner radiation belt on 1 September 1979 are critically reanalyzed and related to other evidence on rings and satellites inside 2.9 Saturn radii, especially that from the imaging system on Voyagers 1 and 2. It is found (a) that satellites 1979 S1, 1979 S2, and 1980 S3 are almost certainly identical; (b) that the evidence for 1979 S4 is weak to nonexistent; (c) that 1979 S5 and two other nearby absorption features and 1979 S6 and one other nearby absorption feature are probably caused by longitudinal and radial structure of Ring F and not by satellites; and (d) that absorption feature 1979 S3 at 169,200 + or - 600 km is identified with the optically observed Ring G.
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