Dynamics of the Oort Cloud In the Gaia Era I: Close Encounters

Authors :: Torres Rodriguez, S.
Portegies Zwart, S.F.
Brown, A.G.A.
Recio-Blanco, A.
Laverny, de P.
Brown, A.
Prusti, T.
Recio-Blanco, A.
Laverny, de P.
Brown, A.
Prusti, T.
Source :: Astrometry and Astrophysics in the Gaia Sky, 269-270. IAU, ISSUE=12;STARTPAGE=269;ENDPAGE=270;TITLE=Astrometry and Astrophysics in the Gaia Sky
Publication Year :: 2017
Publisher :: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017.
Abstract: Comets in the Oort cloud evolve under the influence of internal and external perturbations from giant planets to stellar passages, the Galactic tides, and the interstellar medium.Using the positions, parallaxes and proper motions from TGAS in Gaia DR1 and combining them with the radial velocities from the RAVE-DR5, Geneva-Copenhagen and Pulkovo catalogues, we calculated the closest encounters the Sun has had with other stars in the recent past and will have in the near future. We find that the stars with high proper motions near to the present time are missing in the Gaia-TGAS, and those to tend to be the closest ones. The quality of the data allows putting better constraints on the encounter parameters, compared to previous surveys.