Gabriel Tobie

TL;DR: The detection of complex organic molecules with masses higher than 200 atomic mass units in ice grains emitted from Enceladus indicates the presence of a thin organic-rich layer on top of the moon’s subsurface ocean.

TL;DR: In this paper, coupled thermal and orbital calculations including a full description of tidal dissipation, heat transfer and the H 2O-NH3 phase diagram were proposed for the internal structure and composition of Titan testable with Cassini-Huygens measurements.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new approach based on variational principles was proposed to calculate the radial distribution of the time-averaged dissipation rate in any satellite. But the approach was not applied to the Io, Europa, and Titan-like interiors, and the results obtained by two classical methods by determining global dissipation as well as radial and lateral distributions within satellite interiors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the current effect of the main moons on the orbits of the giant planet and found that the measured k2/Q is poorly sensitive to the tidal frequency, on the short frequency interval considered.

TL;DR: The thickness of Europa's ice shell is constrained with numerical experiments of thermal convection, including heterogeneous tidal heating as mentioned in this paper, which mainly results in the increase of the temperature of the well-mixed interior and in the decrease of the heat flux at the base of the ice layer.