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TY - JOUR
T1 - Occultation observations of Saturn's rings with Cassini VIMS
AU - Nicholson, P.D.
AU - Ansty, T.
AU - Hedman, M.M.
AU - Creel, D.
AU - Ahlers, J.
AU - Harbison, R.A.
AU - Brown, R.H.
AU - Clark, R.N.
AU - Baines, K.H.
AU - Buratti, B.J.
AU - Sotin, C.
AU - Badman, S.V.
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Icarus. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Icarus, 344, 2019 DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2019.06.017
PY - 2020/7/1
Y1 - 2020/7/1
N2 - We describe the prediction, design, execution and calibration of stellar and solar occultation observations of Saturn's rings by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) instrument on the Cassini spacecraft. Particular attention is paid to the technique developed for onboard acquisition of the stellar target and to the geometric and photometric calibration of the data. Examples of both stellar and solar occultation data are presented, highlighting several aspects of the data as well as the different occultation geometries encountered during Cassini's 13-year orbital tour. Complete catalogs of ring stellar and solar occultations observed by Cassini-VIMS are presented, as a guide to the standard data sets which have been delivered to the Planetary Data System's Ring Moon Systems Node (Hedman and Nicholson, 2019b).
AB - We describe the prediction, design, execution and calibration of stellar and solar occultation observations of Saturn's rings by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) instrument on the Cassini spacecraft. Particular attention is paid to the technique developed for onboard acquisition of the stellar target and to the geometric and photometric calibration of the data. Examples of both stellar and solar occultation data are presented, highlighting several aspects of the data as well as the different occultation geometries encountered during Cassini's 13-year orbital tour. Complete catalogs of ring stellar and solar occultations observed by Cassini-VIMS are presented, as a guide to the standard data sets which have been delivered to the Planetary Data System's Ring Moon Systems Node (Hedman and Nicholson, 2019b).
KW - Occultations
KW - Saturn
KW - Rings
KW - Dynamics
U2 - 10.1016/j.icarus.2019.06.017
DO - 10.1016/j.icarus.2019.06.017
M3 - Journal article
VL - 344
JO - Icarus
JF - Icarus
SN - 0019-1035
M1 - 113356
ER -