Ringed Versus Ringless Worlds: How Poynting–Robertson Drag Shapes Rings Across the Solar System
Ryuki Hyodo and Shigeru Ida 2025 ApJL 994 L15 Modeling suggests that drag due to solar flux acting on isolated particles is able to explain the distribution of ringed and ringless worlds in our solar…
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