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海王星3:2平运动共振的轨道分布能否由稳定性塑造产生?

Can the orbital distribution of Neptune's 3:2 mean motion resonance result from stability sculpting?

Sricharan Balaji, Nihaal Zaveri, Nanae Hayashi, Arcelia Hermosillo Ruiz, Jackson Barnes, Ruth Murray-Clay, Kathryn Volk, Jake Gerhardt, Zain Syed

AI总结:

本文通过N体模拟和巡天模拟检验早期散射捕获后的长期稳定性塑造,发现其可解释海王星3:2共振天体的半长轴与偏心率分布,但不能解释倾角、高天平动振幅及Kozai次共振数量。

摘要:

我们探索了一个简化模型,用以描述早期外太阳系引力剧变的结果;在这一过程中,天体通过散射而非平滑的行星迁移被捕获到海王星的3:2平运动共振中。我们使用包含太阳、四颗巨行星以及处于3:2共振中的测试粒子的N体模拟,以确定在4.5 Gyr时间尺度上的长期稳定性塑造,能否从最初随机散布的3:2共振族群重现观测到的3:2共振族群。在让模拟得到的3:2共振天体通过巡天模拟器后,我们发现半长轴(a)和偏心率(e)分布与观测数据一致(假设采用先前研究所约束的绝对星等分布),表明这些分布可能是稳定性塑造的结果。然而,倾角(i)分布无法由稳定性塑造产生,因此必定来自另一个激发倾角的独立过程。我们的模拟对具有高天平动振幅(Aϕ)的天体数量略有低估,这可能是因为我们没有模拟瞬时黏附。最后,与观测结果及平滑迁移模型相比,我们的模型中Kozai次共振的天体数量偏少。未来需要进一步研究,以确定在海王星偏心率阻尼至当前值期间发生的平滑迁移能否解决这一差异。

英文摘要:

We explore a simplified model of the outcome of an early outer Solar System gravitational upheaval during which objects were captured into Neptune's 3:2 mean motion resonance via scattering rather than smooth planetary migration. We use N-body simulations containing the Sun, the four giant planets, and test particles in the 3:2 resonance to determine whether long-term stability sculpting over 4.5 Gyr can reproduce the observed 3:2 resonant population from an initially randomly scattered 3:2 population. After passing our simulated 3:2 resonant objects through a survey simulator, we find that the semimajor axis (a) and eccentricity (e) distributions are consistent with the observational data (assuming an absolute magnitude distribution constrained by prior studies), suggesting that these could be a result of stability sculpting. However, the inclination (i) distribution cannot be produced be stability sculpting and thus must result from a distinct process that excited the inclinations. Our simulations modestly under-predict the number of objects with high libration amplitudes (Aϕ), possibly because we do not model transient sticking. Finally, our model under-populates the Kozai subresonance compared to both observations and to smooth migration models. Future work is needed to determine whether smooth migration occurring as Neptune's eccentricity damped to its current value can resolve this discrepancy.

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