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The aim of this work is to understand the absence of objects along the orbits of Mimas and Enceladus in contrast to their presence at the orbits of neighbouring Tethys and Dione from the point of view of dynamical stability. Large scale numerical simulations of 360 test particles within the coorbital regions of these four saturnian satellites were carried out for 4 × 10 5 yr or 1.6 × 10 8 revolutions of the innermost moon Mimas. The tidal forcing of the satellites' orbits was not taken into account in these simulations. We have quantitatively reproduced the Mimas-Tethys 4:2 and Enceladus-Dione 2:1 mean motion resonances in the system and devised a scheme by which the parameter space of the coorbital resonance is sampled uniformly by our test particles. We observe that 6 out of the 36 integrated horseshoe particles of Enceladus escaped the coorbital region. All 54 tadpole particles remained stable. The main cause of instability for Enceladus coorbitals appears to be the overlap between the coorbital resonance and the 2:1 mean motion resonance between the particle and Dione. This leads particles with starting semimajor axes near the horseshoe-tadpole separatrix to be ejected from the

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Author

Apostolos A. Christou; Fathi Namouni; Maria Helena Moreira Morais

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Inc.; Elsevier BV; Oxford University Press (OUP) (ISSN 0019-1035)

Published

2007

Language

EN

Field

Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)