Structure of self-gravity wakes in Saturn's A ring as measured by Cassini CIRS

Icarus

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 145-153

  Ferrari, C ^a,b   Brooks, S ^c   Edgington, S ^c   Leyrat, C ^c   Pilorz, S ^c   Spilker, L ^c  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^c NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Disks; Infrared observations; Planetary rings; rings; Saturn

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349154335     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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