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Oct 2011
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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.864
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Several narrow dusty rings have been discovered in the Saturn system, such as the F ring, ringlets in the C Ring, the Cassini division, and the Encke Gap [1] [2]. The kinky and clumpy structures in the F ring are considered as the result of embedded moonlets which are dynamically dominated by shepherding moons [3]. Similar features are found in Encke ringlets which we hypothesize to be associated with embedded moonlets [4] [5]. On the other hand, these ringlets are believed to be composed of micron-sized particles [6], which are strongly perturbed by solar radiation pressure and their lifetime is restricted. Therefore mechanisms must be at work to replenish these ringlets. We develop a model for the kinetic balance of dust production, dynamical evolution, and sinks by assuming that dust is freed and annihilated by moonlets embedded in the ringlet. The dynamics of particles ejected from these putative moonlets is explored and the contribution of impact-ejecta to the ringlet is estimated [7] [8]. We found that the optical depth sustained by embedded moonlets is too low (orders of magnitude), indicating that other sources or processes should be responsible for supporting the Encke ringlet.
Schmidt Jonas
Spahn Frank
Sun K. L.
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