Article Dans Une Revue Research Notes of the AAS Année : 2025

Discovery of 128 New Saturnian Irregular Moons

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Abstract We highlight the announcement by the IAU Minor Planet Center of 128 new irregular moons of Saturn discovered in our CFHT imaging acquired in 2023. We were able to link 83 of the new moons to detections from our earlier 2019–2021 study. Of the 58 new retrograde moons with multiyear arcs, 46 are likely in the Mundilfari subgroup. This large fraction is in line with the steep size distribution of the subgroup and the idea that it was created by a recent collision. Also, by more than tripling the number of Kiviuq subgroup members, the new discoveries have confirmed that this subgroup is a very tightly grouped collisional family, although likely much older.

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hal-05226681 , version 1 (27-08-2025)

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Edward Ashton, Brett Gladman, Mike Alexandersen, Jean-Marc C. Petit. Discovery of 128 New Saturnian Irregular Moons. Research Notes of the AAS, 2025, 9 (3), pp.57. ⟨10.3847/2515-5172/adbf87⟩. ⟨hal-05226681⟩
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