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稠密行星环的长期大尺度粘性演化

Long-term & large-scale viscous evolution of dense planetary rings

Julien Salmon, Sébastien Charnoz, Aurélien Crida, André Brahic

摘要:

我们使用一个简单的一维数值程序研究了稠密行星环的长期和大尺度粘性演化。我们使用从N体模拟(Daisaka等人,2001年),并取决于磁盘的本地属性(表面质量密度,颗粒大小,到行星的距离)。特别是,我们包括引力不稳定性(尾流),重要地提高磁盘的粘度的影响。我们发现,常见的估计磁盘的传播时间尺度与恒定粘度显着低估了环的寿命。在一个真实的粘度模型中,一个最初狭窄的环经历了两个连续的演化阶段:(1)当圆盘处于自引力作用时,会有一个短暂的快速扩散,形成一个向内的密度峰值和一个边缘引力稳定的外部区域,排空时间比例为1/M_0^2(其中M_0是盘的初始质量)(2)当盘的较大部分由于表面密度的减小而变得非自引力时,扩展速率不断减慢的渐近状态,直到圆盘完全失去了自引力在这一点上,它的演变显着放缓,排空时间比例为1/M_0,这显着增加了磁盘的寿命相比,恒定粘度的情况下。我们还表明,磁盘的宽度尺度与现实的粘度模型类似t^{1/4},而在恒定粘度的情况下,它的尺度与t^{1/2}相似,导致我们的模型中的演化时间尺度要大得多。然而,我们发现土星环目前的形状在我们的模拟中看起来像一个1亿年前的圆盘。关于木星,天王星和海王星的光环,今天是暗淡的,这是不太可能的,他们在过去更大的质量,并失去了大部分的质量,由于粘性蔓延单独。

英文摘要:

We investigate the long-term and large-scale viscous evolution of dense planetary rings using a simple 1D numerical code. We use a physically realistic viscosity model derived from N-body simulations (Daisaka et al., 2001), and dependent on the disk's local properties (surface mass density, particle size, distance to the planet). Particularly, we include the effects of gravitational instabilities (wakes) that importantly enhance the disk's viscosity. We show that common estimates of the disk's spreading time-scales with constant viscosity significantly underestimate the rings' lifetime. With a realistic viscosity model, an initially narrow ring undergoes two successive evolutionary stages: (1) a transient rapid spreading when the disk is self-gravitating, with the formation of a density peak inward and an outer region marginally gravitationally stable, and with an emptying time-scale proportional to 1/M_0^2 (where M_0 is the disk's initial mass) (2) an asymptotic regime where the spreading rate continuously slows down as larger parts of the disk become not-self-gravitating due to the decrease of the surface density, until the disk becomes completely not-self-gravitating. At this point its evolution dramatically slows down, with an emptying time-scale proportional to 1/M_0, which significantly increases the disk's lifetime compared to the case with constant viscosity. We show also that the disk's width scales like t^{1/4} with the realistic viscosity model, while it scales like t^{1/2} in the case of constant viscosity, resulting in much larger evolutionary time-scales in our model. We find however that the present shape of Saturn's rings looks like a 100 million-years old disk in our simulations. Concerning Jupiter's, Uranus' and Neptune's rings that are faint today, it is not likely that they were much more massive in the past and lost most of their mass due to viscous spreading alone.

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