Ice Giants — The Return of the Rings

Hsiang-Wen Hsu (1) , Ali Sulaiman (2) , Hao Cao (3) , Matthew Hedman (4) , Omakshi Agiwal (5) , Nicolas Altobelli (6) , Kevin Baillie (7, 8) , Tracy Becker (9) , Michel Blanc (10) , Shawn Brooks (11) , Aurélien Crida (12) , Jeffrey Cuzzi (13) , Imke De Pater (14) , Paul Estrada (15) , L. Z. L. Z. Hadid Hadid (16) , Mihály Horányi (1) , Gregory Hunt (5) , Wing-Huen Ip (17) , Nozair Khawaja (18) , Sascha Kempf (1) , Peter Kollmann (19) , William Kurth (2) , Erin Leonard (11) , Simon Linti (18) , Christopher Mankovich (11) , Kelly Miller , Luke Moore (20) , Michiko Morooka (21) , James O'Donoghue (22) , Mark Perry (19) , Frank Postberg , Elias Roussos (23) , Daniel Schirdewahn (24) , Jürgen Schmidt (25) , Oleg Shebanits (5) , Mark Showalter (26) , Frank Spahn (24) , Linda Spilker (11) , Tom Spilker , Ralf Srama (27) , Jamey Szalay (28) , Wei-Ling Tseng (29) , J. Hunter Waite, Jr.

1 University of Colorado [Boulder]
2 University of Iowa [Iowa City]
3 Harvard University
4 University of Idaho [Moscow, USA]
5 Imperial College London
6 ESA - Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency
7 IMCCE - Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides
8 Université de Lille
9 SwRI - Southwest Research Institute [San Antonio]
10 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie
11 CALTECH - California Institute of Technology
12 LAGRANGE - Joseph Louis LAGRANGE
13 ARC - NASA Ames Research Center
14 UC Berkeley - University of California [Berkeley]
15 SETI - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute
16 LPP - Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
17 NCU - National Central University [Taiwan]
18 Freie Universität Berlin
19 JHU - Johns Hopkins University
20 BU - Boston University [Boston]
21 IRF - Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Uppsala / Kiruna]
22 JAXA - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency [Tokyo]
23 MPS - Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
24 University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam
25 University of Oulu
26 SETI Institute
27 Universität Stuttgart [Stuttgart]
28 Princeton University
29 NTNU - National Taiwan Normal University

Planetary rings are a multifaceted player in the system. Recent advances about Saturn’s rings argue that ring science at the ice giants, with magnetospheric and atmospheric sciences, are essential in advancing our knowledge about solar system evolution, the evolution of the moons and Ocean Worlds, and phenomena observed in the ice giant systems.

Domaines: Astrophysique stellaire et solaire [astro-ph.SR]; Planétologie et astrophysique de la terre [astro-ph.EP]; Physique des plasmas [physics.plasm-ph]

Hsiang-Wen Hsu, Ali Sulaiman, Hao Cao, Matthew Hedman, Omakshi Agiwal, et al.. Ice Giants — The Return of the Rings. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 2021, 53 (4), ⟨10.3847/25c2cfeb.b28bf609⟩. ⟨hal-03774240v2⟩