Appearance of Saturn’s F ring azimuthal channels for the anti-alignment configuration between the ring and Prometheus

✍ Scribed by Carlos E. Chavez

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 728 KB
• Volume: 203
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0019-1035
• DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.04.033

✦ Synopsis

who found excellent agreement between Cassini's ISS reprojected images and their numerical model via a direct comparison. We find that for anti-alignment the channels are wider and go deeper inside the ring material. From our numerical model we find a new feature, an island in the middle of the channel. This island is made up of the particles that have been perturbed the most by Prometheus and only appears when this satellite is close to apoapsis. In addition, plots of the antialignment configuration for different orbital stages of Prometheus are obtained and discussed here.