Hydrodynamic Simulations of Asymmetric Propeller Structures in the Saturnian Ring System
Abstract
Here, we perform hydrodynamic simulations to study the changes of the propeller structure due to a disk-embedded moonlet which is librating around its mean orbital position. We present results showing how the induced propeller structure changes because of the libration of the moonlet and if these changes might be visible in Cassini images. Further, we apply our results to the propeller structures Bleriot and Santos Dumont.
- Publication:
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European Planetary Science Congress
- Pub Date:
- September 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018EPSC...12..756S