Estudos sobre as defasagens de Prometeu e Pandora

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Santana, Thamiris de [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Satelites; Saturno (Planeta); Satelites - Orbitas; Ressonancia; Longitude; Satellites
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/124394; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/10-06-2015/000833337.pdf

Observational data collected in 1995 during the passage of the Earth by the ring plane of Saturn indicated angular lags in the predicted positions of Prometheus and Pandora. Using additional data these lags were confirmed, with Prometheus being about -19º of their estimated longitude and Pandora about 25º. A possible chaotic relationship due to a 121:118 mean motion resonance between the two satellites is currently accepted to explain those lags (Goldreich & Rappaport 2003b). However, an alternative work analyses the temporal evolution of the satellites semi-major axes and suggests that these lags are the result of non-ideal initial data which corresponds to a particular time and do not represent the behavior of satellites most of the time (Cruz 2004). In this work, we reanalyzed the lags of Prometheus and Pandora through a detailed study of the two aforementioned papers, testing analytically and numerically their main results. The results indicate that the observed lag originate from an initial condition corresponding to the time alignment of anti-periapses orbital of the satellites, once their are related by the 121: 118 mean motion resonance, they generate lags. It is proposed a way to measure the mass of the F-ring, which is still unknown, from the dynamic model developed in this work, resulting in an excessively large mass of the upper limit to be considered. In addition, from a study of the angular momentum conservation, we measure new densities for Prometheus and Pandora as [0:85 - 0:99]g cm-³ and [0:62 - 0:85]g cm-³, respectively