The science case for spacecraft exploration of the Uranian satellites: Candidate ocean worlds in an ice giant system

RJ Cartwright, CB Beddingfield… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The 27 satellites of Uranus are enigmatic, with dark surfaces coated by material that could
be rich in organics. Voyager 2 imaged the southern hemispheres of Uranus's five largest" …

Miranda's Thick Regolith Indicates a Major Mantling Event from an Unknown Source

CB Beddingfield, RJ Cartwright - The Planetary Science Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigated" muted" craters and scarps across Miranda's cratered terrain. The
morphologies of the muted craters are most consistent with modification by regolith …

Circumplanetary dust populations

F Spahn, M Sachse, M Seiß, HW Hsu, S Kempf… - Space Science …, 2019 - Springer
We summarize the current state of observations of circumplanetary dust populations,
including both dilute and dense rings and tori around the giant planets, ejecta clouds …

Effects of immersed moonlets in the ring arc particles of Saturn

G Madeira, SM Giuliatti Winter - The European Physical Journal Special …, 2020 - Springer
Ring arcs are the result of particles in corotation resonances with nearby satellites. Arcs are
present in Saturn and Neptune systems, in Saturn they are also associated with small …

[HTML][HTML] Keck near-infrared detections of Mab and Perdita

EM Molter, I de Pater, C Moeckel - Icarus, 2023 - Elsevier
We report the first near-infrared detection of Uranus's tiny moon Mab, the presumed source
of the blue and diffuse μ ring, using the NIRC2 instrument at Keck Observatory. The …

Production and fate of the G ring arc particles due to Aegaeon (Saturn LIII)

G Madeira, R Sfair, DC Mourão… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The G ring arc hosts the smallest satellite of Saturn, Aegaeon, observed with a set of images
sent by Cassini spacecraft. Along with Aegaeon, the arc particles are trapped in a 7: 6 …

Numerical analysis of processes for the formation of moonlets confining the arcs of Neptune

G Madeira, SM Giuliatti Winter - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The arcs of Neptune–Fraternité, Egalité, Liberté, and Courage–are four
incomplete rings immersed in the Adams ring. A recent confinement model for the arcs …

Small particles in Pluto's environment: effects of the solar radiation pressure

PM Pires dos Santos, SM Giuliatti Winter… - Monthly Notices of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Small particles in Pluto's environment: effects of the solar radiation pressure | Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content Advertisement …

Long-term dynamical evolution of Pallene (Saturn XXXIII) and its diffuse, dusty ring

MA Muñoz-Gutiérrez… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The distinctive set of Saturnian small satellites, Aegaeon, Methone, Anthe, and Pallene,
constitutes an excellent laboratory to understand the evolution of systems immersed in co …

Neptune's ring arcs confined by coorbital satellites: dust orbital evolution through solar radiation

SM Giuliatti Winter, G Madeira… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Here, we report the results of a set of numerical simulations of the system formed by
Neptune, Galatea, dust ring particles, and hypothetical co-orbital satellites. This dynamical …