Meter-sized boulder population in Saturn's C ring and Cassini Division

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1227b&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1227

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Scanning the ring system, we observed isolated and unexpected high photon counts in places where the photon counts reach the brightness of the occulted star. This defines a new type of structure named "ghosts" [1]. We identified 35 of these holes in the C ring plateaus and 265 in the Cassini Division Ringlets and Plateaus (mainly in the Huygens Ringlet, the Triple Band and the Cassini Division ramp). No real meaningful spatial distribution can be drawn from our observations since we selected the places where we were observing. However, these features are not circular and we estimate their radial width W.

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