Cassini ring seismology as a probe of Saturn's interior. I. Rigid rotation

C Mankovich, MS Marley, JJ Fortney… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The Astrophysical Journal, 2019iopscience.iop.org
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 20
waves with pattern speeds faster than the ring mean motion have been detected and
characterized using high-resolution Cassini Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer …
Abstract
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 20 waves with pattern speeds faster than the ring mean motion have been detected and characterized using high-resolution Cassini Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer stellar occultation data. We present identifications of the fundamental modes of Saturn that appear to be the origin of these observed ring waves, and we use their observed pattern speeds and azimuthal wavenumbers to estimate the bulk rotation period of Saturn's interior to be
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