Cassini UVIS Observations of Saturn's Faint, Narrow Ringlets

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1298b&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1298

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We present an analysis of faint ringlets in gaps in Saturn's main ring system using stellar occultation data from Cassini's Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS). Several ringlets are detected, but due to their low optical depth they appear only in occultations of particularly bright stars or occultations at very low slant paths to the ring plane resulting in a relatively high slant path optical depth. We present our analysis of the ringlet characteristics including width, mean optical depth, and equivalent width. Some ringlets seen by other Cassini instruments are too faint to be detected in UVIS data.

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