Low-energy ring particle accretion as the origin of Pan's equatorial ridge

arXiv:2609.03060 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-09-02 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-02

Updated: 2026-09-02

Comments: 12 pages, submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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• Core — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• N-body simulations — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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