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The Communicating Pipe Model for Icy Plumes on Enceladus

Ma Qian-Li and Chen Chu-Xin

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GEOPHYSICS, ASTRONOMY, AND ASTROPHYSICS

We analyze the communicating pipe model on Enceladus, and predict that Saturn's strong tidal force in Enceladus plays a significant role in the plumes. In this model, the scale of the volcanoes can be evaluated based on the history of the craters and plumes. The correspondence of the data and observation make the model valid for the eruption. So it is imaginable that the tidal force is pulling the liquid out through the communicating pipe while reshaping the surface on Enceladus.


PACS

96.15.Wx Tidal forces

96.30.Mh Saturn

96.12.Xy Tectonics, volcanism

96.15.Xy Polar regions

Subjects

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 11 (November 2009)

Received 17 June 2009



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