Cassini Ring Seismology as a Probe of Saturn’s Interior. I. Rigid Rotation
@article{Mankovich2019CassiniRS, title={Cassini Ring Seismology as a Probe of Saturn’s Interior. I. Rigid Rotation}, author={Christopher R. Mankovich and Mark S. Marley and Jonathan J. Fortney and Naor Movshovitz}, journal={The Astrophysical Journal}, year={2019} }
Seismology of the gas giants holds the potential to resolve long-standing questions about their internal structure and rotation state. We construct a family of Saturn interior models constrained by the gravity field and compute their adiabatic mode eigenfrequencies and corresponding Lindblad and vertical resonances in Saturn's C ring, where more than twenty waves with pattern speeds faster than the ring mean motion have been detected and characterized using high-resolution Cassini Visual and…
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