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arXiv 0912.1645astro-ph.EP
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重新评估长周期彗星的来源

Reassessing the Source of Long-Period Comets

Nathan A. Kaib, Thomas Quinn

摘要:

我们提出了数值模拟生产的可观测的长周期彗星(LPC)从奥尔特云,一个巨大的水库周围的太阳冰体。我们发现,内部奥尔特云对象可以穿透木星的轨道,通过一个基本上未经探索的动力学路径,他们是一个重要的,如果不是占主导地位的,已知的LPC的来源。我们使用这个LPC生产的地方观测动机的人口和质量的内部奥尔特云,这是符合巨型行星形成理论的约束。这些限制表明,自寒武纪爆发以来,只有一次彗星雨产生晚始新世的轰击水平,使这些现象成为额外灭绝事件的不太可能的原因。

英文摘要:

We present numerical simulations to model the production of observable long-period comets (LPCs) from the Oort Cloud, a vast reservoir of icy bodies surrounding the Sun. We show that inner Oort Cloud objects can penetrate Jupiter's orbit via a largely unexplored dynamical pathway, and they are an important, if not the dominant, source of known LPCs. We use this LPC production to place observationally motivated constraints on the population and mass of the inner Oort Cloud, which are consistent with giant planet formation theory. These constraints indicate that only one comet shower producing late Eocene bombardment levels has likely occurred since the Cambrian Explosion, making these phenomena an improbable cause of additional extinction events.

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