Voyager 2 photopolarimeter experiment - Evidence for tenuous outer ring material at Saturn

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Aug 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986icar...67..205g&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 67, Aug. 1986, p. 205-210. NASA-supported research.

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Astronomical Photometry, Planetary Composition, Polarimetry, Saturn Rings, Voyager 2 Spacecraft, Optical Thickness, Radial Distribution, Statistical Analysis, Stellar Occultation

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Voyager 2 photopolarimeter data are employed to characterize two regions of optically thin material outside the Saturn F ring. The study consists of a statistical analysis of optical depth value fluctuations caused by occultations of starlight from Delta Sco as viewed through the material. One the optically thin regions surrounds the orbital semimajor axis of the outer F ring shepherd satellite Pandora and the other thin region lies 144,090 km farther outward. The first region, with an optical depth of 0.008-0.016, is about 200 km in radius and the second, with an optical depth of 0.005-0.013, is about 1000 km in radial width. The data had a resolution of 0.5 km.

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