High heat flow from Enceladus' south polar region measured using 10–600 cm−1 Cassini/CIRS data

By C. Howett, J. Spencer, J. Pearl, M. Segura. 2011

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• Tidal heating in icy satellite oceans (2014, methodology): “…used simplified theoretical models in order to calculate the thermal budgets, with the understanding that these results may diverge from what is observed, as for example in the long-recognized anomalous cases of Mimas or Enceladus (Squyres et al., 1983; Meyer and Wisdom, 2007; Howett et al., 2011).”
• The pH of Enceladus’ ocean (2015, background): “…wealth of geological (Smith et al., 1982; Porco et al., 2006; 2014; Spencer et al., 2009), geophysical (Spencer et al., 2006; Schmidt et al., 2008; Howett et al., 2011; Ingersoll & Ewald, 2011; Iess et al., 2014), and geochemical (Postberg et al., 2009; 2011; Waite et al., 2009; Hsu et al., 2014)…”
• Enceladus: An Active Ice World in the Saturn System (2013, background): “…emission is clearly associated with the tiger stripes (Figure 7) and thus must be endogenic, it is very unlikely that the reported 16-GW best-estimate power output (Howett et al. 2011) is overestimated by the factor of >14 that would be required for Enceladus to be currently in steady state.”
• Resonance locking as the source of rapid tidal migration in the Jupiter and Saturn moon systems (2016, background): “We note that the heating rate of (Howett et al. 2011) is controversial, and an updated estimate for heat emitted from Enceladus’s tiger stripes alone is 5 GW (Spencer et al. 2013, see also Porco et al. 2014).”
• HOW THE GEYSERS, TIDAL STRESSES, AND THERMAL EMISSION ACROSS THE SOUTH POLAR TERRAIN OF ENCELADUS ARE RELATED (2014, methodology): “…thermal measurements indicate that the vast majority of Enceladus’ observed heat is emitted from the tiger stripe fractures (Spencer et al. 2006; Howett et al. 2011) and presentday shear heating along the fractures was initially proposed as the responsible agent (e.g., Nimmo et al. 2007).4 The…”