Rings in the Solar System: a short review
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
2018-12-05 v1
Abstract
Rings are ubiquitous around giant planets in our Solar System. They evolve jointly with the nearby satellite system. They could form either during the giant planet formation process or much later, as a result of large scale dynamical instabilities either in the local satellite system, or at the planetary scale. We review here the main characteristics of rings in our solar system, and discuss their main evolution processes and possible origin. We also discuss the recent discovery of rings around small bodies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1805.08963,
title = {Rings in the Solar System: a short review},
author = {Sébastien Charnoz and Aurélien Crida and Ryuki Hyodo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.08963},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Accepted for the Handbook of Exoplanets