A photometric study of Saturn's F Ring

Details A photometric study of Saturn's F Ring A photometric study of Saturn's F Ring

Dec 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992icar..100..394s&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 100, no. 2, p. 394-411.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

72

Astronomical Photometry, Particle Size Distribution, Planetary Structure, Satellite Imagery, Saturn Rings, Astronomical Models, Least Squares Method, Voyager Project

Scientific paper

The Saturn F Ring's radially integrated brightness has been measured over a wide range of phase angles from Voyager images; in order to model the resultant phase curve, the ring population has been divided into a dust regime and one of larger bodies, and while single scattering properties of small particles are modeled by semiempirical nonspherical/randomly oriented particles, those of large bodies are based on the photometric behavior of satellites. It is suggested that the dust in the envelope arises from micrometeoroid impacts into the large core particles, and then migrates inward.

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