Density waves in Saturn's rings probed by radio and optical occultation - Observational tests of theory

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Oct 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992icar...99..448b&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 99, no. 2, p. 448-467.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Gravitational Fields, Occultation, Radio Astronomy, Saturn Rings, Gravitation Theory, Least Squares Method, Orbital Resonances (Celestial Mechanics), Polarimetry, Saturn Satellites, Voyager Project

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A parallel examination is conducted of Voyager radio and photopolarimeter occultation observations of the Saturn A ring's density waves. The radio instrument waves exhibit an average -90 deg offset from the dynamical phase. A warping height of about 100-m amplitude can qualtitatively reproduce this phase shift, while preserving the overall model wave shape. These results may be profoundly relevant for satellite-ring torque calculations in Saturn's rings, given the deposition of all of the net torque of the standard model in the first wavelength.

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