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Kronoseismology. IV. Six Previously Unidentified Waves in Saturn’s Middle C Ring

Nicholson, P. D.; Hedman, M. M.; French, R. G.

Recent studies of stellar occultations observed by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer on board the Cassini spacecraft have demonstrated that multiple spiral wave structures in Saturn’s rings are probably generated by normal-mode oscillations inside the planet. Wavelet-based analyses have been able to unambiguously determine both the numb…