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Formation of the resonant populations in the Kuiper belt: gas-drag-induced resonant capture
- Source :
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 396:1032-1037
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2009.
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Abstract
- On the basis of their orbital elements, present-day Kuiper belt objects can be grouped into distinct dynamical classes: classical, resonant and scattered ones. Jiang & Yeh have proposed gas-drag-induced resonant capture in a protostellar disc analogous to the primordial solar nebula as a mechanism able to explain the dominant 3:2 resonant population observed in Kuiper belt objects. de la Fuente Marcos & de la Fuente Marcos further investigated the drag-induced mechanism numerically. Our significant contribution is a hydrodynamic theory derivation of results obtained in the Jiang & Yeh and de la Fuente Marcos & de la Fuente Marcos numerical simulations.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Orbital elements
Solar System
education.field_of_study
Mathematics::Rings and Algebras
Population
Astronomy
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Planetary system
Celestial mechanics
Space and Planetary Science
Drag
Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Formation and evolution of the Solar System
Hydrodynamic theory
education
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13652966 and 00358711
- Volume :
- 396
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........80ce77c25780e3b196207acd17b7d563