The confinement of Neptune's ring arcs by the moon Galatea.

Abstract:

:Neptune has five narrow ring arcs, spanning about 40 degrees in longitude, which are apparently confined against the rapid azimuthal and radial spreading that normally results from inter-particle collisions. A gravitational resonance based on the vertical motion of the nearby neptunian moon Galatea was proposed to explain the trapping of the ring particles into a sequence of arcs. But recent observations have indicated that the arcs are away from the resonance, leaving their stability again unexplained. Here we report that a resonance based on Galatea's eccentricity is responsible for the angular confinement of the arcs. The mass of the arcs affects the precession of Galatea's eccentric orbit, which will enable a mass estimate from future observations of Galatea's eccentricity.

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Nature

journal_title

Nature

authors

Namouni F,Porco C

doi

10.1038/417045a

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-05-02 00:00:00

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45-7

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6884

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0028-0836

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1476-4687

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417045a

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417

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