Dynamically favorable hosts for submoons around Jupiter and Saturn

arXiv:2609.03564 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-09-03 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-03

Updated: 2026-09-03

Terminology

• Accuracy — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• N-body simulations — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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