Here are some movies from my research projects.

These simulations are small (150 km by 80 km) patches of saturn's massive ring system (which is hundreds of thousands of km wide). These movies show a face-on view of a region like the Keeler gap in Saturn's A ring. The moon in these simulations has a mass similar to that of Daphnis, the moon imbedded in that gap. These simulations seek to understand the dynamics of that system, and to constrain the properties of Daphnis (like its mass).

1) "True" Keeler parameters. download (174 MB)

2a) Daphnis mass enhanced by 25%. download (127 MB)

2b) Daphnis mass enhanced by 25%, in 3D. download (42 MB)

3) Daphnis mass reduced by 50%. download (72 MB)

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