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Kozai循环在近地双星中的作用

The Role of Kozai Cycles in Near-Earth Binary Asteroids

Julia Fang, Jean-Luc Margot

摘要:

我们调查的背景下,近地双星和太阳的Kozai机制。Kozai效应可以导致双星轨道的偏心率和倾角的变化,但它可以被其他近心岁差的来源减弱或完全抑制,例如主星的扁率。通过包括主扁率和3个天体(两个双星和太阳)的数值积分,我们表明,Kozai循环不可能发生在我们的样本中的紧密分离的近地双星。我们证明,这是由于近心进动周围的扁圆小学,即使是非常小的扁率值。由于大多数观测到的近地双星没有很好地分离,我们预测,Kozai周期不发挥重要作用,在大多数近地双星的轨道演化。对于一个以1998年ST 27为模型的假想宽双星,在16个主半径处的间隔很大,因此主扁率的轨道影响减小了。对于这个宽的二进制,我们说明了可能的偏心率和倾角的偏移,由于Kozai周期,以及描绘稳定的二进制的轨道平面的取向。不稳定的方向导致二进制组件之间的碰撞,我们认为,Kozai效应作用于宽的二进制可能是一个途径,形成近地接触二进制。

英文摘要:

We investigate the Kozai mechanism in the context of near-Earth binaries and the Sun. The Kozai effect can lead to changes in eccentricity and inclination of the binary orbit, but it can be weakened or completely suppressed by other sources of pericenter precession, such as the oblateness of the primary body. Through numerical integrations including primary oblateness and 3 bodies (the two binary components and the Sun), we show that Kozai cycles cannot occur for the closely-separated near-Earth binaries in our sample. We demonstrate that this is due to pericenter precession around the oblate primary, even for very small oblateness values. Since the majority of observed near-Earth binaries are not well-separated, we predict that Kozai cycles do not play an important role in the orbital evolution of most near-Earth binaries. For a hypothetical wide binary modeled after 1998 ST27, the separation is large at 16 primary radii and so the orbital effects of primary oblateness are lessened. For this wide binary, we illustrate the possible excursions in eccentricity and inclination due to Kozai cycles as well as depict stable orientations for the binary's orbital plane. Unstable orientations lead to collisions between binary components, and we suggest that the Kozai effect acting in wide binaries may be a route to the formation of near-Earth contact binaries.

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