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Observing rings and small moons with JWST

Matthew S. Tiscareno (SETI Institute)

M.R. Showalter (SETI Institute), R.G. French (Wellesley College), J.A. Burns (Cornell), J.N. Cuzzi (NASA Ames), I. de Pater (UC Berkeley), D.P. Hamilton (U Maryland), M.M. Hedman (U Idaho), P.D. Nicholson (Cornell), D. Tamayo (U Toronto/CITA), A.J. Verbiscer (U Virginia), S.N. Milam (NASA Goddard), J.A. Stansberry (STScI)

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will provide unprecedented opportunities to observe the rings and small moons in our solar system, accomplishing three primary objectives: 1) discovering new rings and moons, 2) unprecedented spectroscopy, and 3) time-domain observations. We give details on these science objectives and describe requirements that JWST must fulfill in order to accomplish the science objectives.

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