Strange attractors in the Saturn ring system
Author(s) -
V. Lalaja,
V. P. N. Nampoori,
R. Pratap
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
earth moon and planets
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.355
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1573-0794
pISSN - 0167-9295
DOI - 10.1007/bf00056311
Subject(s) - attractor , dissipative system , saturn , non equilibrium thermodynamics , physics , chaotic , chaos (operating system) , character (mathematics) , ring (chemistry) , statistical physics , rings of saturn , astronomy , computer science , mathematics , planet , quantum mechanics , geometry , mathematical analysis , artificial intelligence , chemistry , computer security , organic chemistry
The three rings A, B and C of Saturn and the two gaps French and Cassini divisions in between them have been subjected to a study of deterministic chaos and we have shown the existence of spatially distributed strange attractors, implying thereby that the system is open, dissipative, nonequilibrium and non-Markovian in character.
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