Subcentimeter-size particle distribution functions in planetary rings from Voyager radio and photopolarimeter occultation data

Details Subcentimeter-size particle distribution functions in planetary rings from Voyager radio and photopolarimeter occultation data Subcentimeter-size particle distribution functions in planetary rings from Voyager radio and photopolarimeter occultation data

May 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987pggp.rept...55z&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1986 p 55-56 (SEE N87-23341 16-91)

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Mie Scattering, Particle Size Distribution, Planetary Rings, Radio Occultation, Saturn (Planet), Uranus (Planet), Astronomical Models, Distribution Functions, Signal Processing, Voyager 1 Spacecraft

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Analysis of measurements of the scattered and direct components of Voyager 1 radio occultation signals at 3.5 and 13 cm wavelengths yield estimates of the distribution functions of supracentimeter-size particles and thickness of relatively broad regions in Saturn's rings. If mearurements of signal amplitude at a shorter wavelength are combined with the previously analyzed data, the shape of the distribution functions characterizing the smaller particles can be constrained. If size distributions of arbitrary form were considered, many solutions are found that are consistent with the three available observations of signal amplitude. The best-fit power law was calculated to the three observations at three wavelengths for several of the embedded Saturn ringlets. Mie scattering theory predicts that the measured phase of the radio occultation signal is highly sensitive to particles ranging from 0.1 to 1.0 wavelengths in size, thus additional constraints on the subcentimeter-size distribution functions for both the Saturn and Uranus rings can in principle be derived from radio phase measurements.

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