3 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
Milani and Juventas Optical Navigation Images in Support of the Hera Radio Science Experiment
Edoardo Gramigna, Ozgur Karatekin, Birgit Ritter +7
The European Space Agency's Hera mission aims to advance planetary defense by investigating the Didymos binary asteroid system following NASA's DART impact on Dimorphos. Incorporat…
astro-ph.EP2026
Low-energy ring particle accretion as the origin of Pan's equatorial ridge
Marco Baj, Iosto Fodde, Lucia Francesca Civati +1
Pan is a small Saturnian satellite embedded within the planet's A ring, characterized by a polygonal equatorial ridge whose formation mechanism remains debated. A proposed explanat…
astro-ph.EP2024
Exploring tidal dissipation in rubble pile binary secondaries using a discrete element model
Ethan R. Burnett, Iosto Fodde, Fabio Ferrari +2
In this work, models of rubble pile binary secondaries are simulated in various spin states in a system similar in size and scale to Didymos-Dimorphos. The numerical modeling is pe…