… produced in a ring of particles by a moonlet that crosses the ring, an analysis of this perturbation
can be carried out in the neighbourhood of the moonlet. 45 000 ring particles have been …

… radius moonlet Pan in the Encke gap and further validated by Cassini’s sighting of the 4-km
radius moonlet Daphnis in the Keeler gap (SOM text 6). The equilibrium width of a moonlet-…

… -new “shepherding” process by which moonlets straddling a narrow ring could confine the
ring … However, concern soon arose that the slightly more massive inner moonlet Prometheus …

… a wide profile with sharp edges suggestive of an opaque moonlet (see Figure 1.27); it had
a … to determine the existence and nature of any moonlet belt orbiting close to the F ring core. …

… However, these moonlets are rare and their distribution falls of much steeper towards larger
sizes than for the population of main ring particles. Thus, for the moonlets the timescale to …

Image photometry reveals that the F ring is approximately twice as bright during the Cassini
tour as it was during the Voyager flybys of 1980 and 1981. It is also three times as wide and …

… wide profile with sharp edges suggestive of an opaque moonlet (see Figure 13.27); it had a
width … of any moonlet belt orbiting close to the Fring core. Clearly, with the advent of Cassini, …

In this paper, we introduce a simplified model to understand the location of Saturn’s F ring.
The model is a planar restricted five-body problem defined by the gravitational field of Saturn, …

Cuzzi et al. (2014) described the dynamical properties of Saturn’s F Ring region numerically
and analytically. They found that most of the region was dynamically chaotic due to …

We present models of the near-infrared (1–5μm) spectra of Saturn’s F ring obtained by
Cassini’s Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) at ultra-high phase angles (177.4–…