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天王星和海王星轨道动力学不稳定期间柯伊伯带结构的起源

Origin of the Structure of the Kuiper Belt during a Dynamical Instability in the Orbits of Uranus and Neptune

Harold F. Levison, Alessandro Morbidelli, Christa Van Laerhoven, Rodney Gomes, Kleomenis Tsiganis

摘要:

我们探讨的起源和轨道演化的柯伊伯带的框架内的最近的模型的动力学演化的巨行星,有时被称为尼斯模型。这个模型的特点是一个短暂但剧烈的不稳定阶段,在此期间行星处于大偏心率轨道上。这个模型的一个特点是,原行星盘必须在大约30到35天文单位处被截断,这样海王星才能在目前观测到的位置停止迁移。因此,柯伊伯带最初可能是空的。本文提出了一种新的动力学机制,该机制可以在没有过度倾斜激发的情况下将天体从~35 AU的内部区域运送到柯伊伯带。假设与天王星的最后一次相遇将海王星送到了一个半长轴为~27 AU,偏心率为~0.3的低倾角轨道上,并且随后海王星的偏心率在~1 My中衰减,我们的模拟再现了柯伊伯带在前所未有的水平上的主要观测特性。

英文摘要:

We explore the origin and orbital evolution of the Kuiper belt in the framework of a recent model of the dynamical evolution of the giant planets, sometimes known as the Nice model. This model is characterized by a short, but violent, instability phase, during which the planets were on large eccentricity orbits. One characteristic of this model is that the proto-planetary disk must have been truncated at roughly 30 to 35 AU so that Neptune would stop migrating at its currently observed location. As a result, the Kuiper belt would have initially been empty. In this paper we present a new dynamical mechanism which can deliver objects from the region interior to ~35 AU to the Kuiper belt without excessive inclination excitation. Assuming that the last encounter with Uranus delivered Neptune onto a low-inclination orbit with a semi-major axis of ~27 AU and an eccentricity of ~0.3, and that subsequently Neptune's eccentricity damped in ~1 My, our simulations reproduce the main observed properties of the Kuiper belt at an unprecedented level.

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