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论DART撞击Dimorphos后喷射出的慢速巨石之命运

On the fate of slow boulders ejected after DART impact on Dimorphos

Fernando Moreno, Gonzalo Tancredi, Adriano Campo Bagatin

AI总结:

本文分析DART撞击Dimorphos后喷射的慢速巨石的长期轨道演化,利用动力学代码预测其命运,并评估Hera任务抵达时观测到这些巨石的可行性。

摘要:

2022年9月26日23:14 UT,NASA/DART(双小行星重定向测试)航天器成功撞击了双小行星系统(65803)Didymos的次级天体Dimorphos,首次演示了小行星轨道偏转。撞击释放了大量碎片,其颗粒尺寸频率分布广泛(从微米级尘埃到米级巨石),且撞击后观测到持续超过9个月的持久尾迹。喷射物质量的重要部分以单个米级巨石形式被抛出,这些巨石已在意大利小行星成像立方星(LICIACube)及哈勃空间望远镜(HST)获取的图像中被发现。LICIACube观测到的巨石投影速度约为每秒数十米,而HST观测到的巨石速度则慢约一百倍。本文利用不同的动力学代码分析这些慢速巨石的长期轨道演化,为这类大颗粒的命运提供约束,并洞察在ESA/Hera任务于2026年底抵达该双星系统时,部分可能仍留在轨道上的巨石是否可被观测到的可能性。

英文摘要:

On 2022 September 26th, 23:14 UT the NASA/DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft successfully impacted Dimorphos, the secondary component of the binary (65803) Didymos system, demonstrating asteroid orbit deflection for the first time. A large amount of debris, consisting on a wide size frequency distribution of particulates (from micron-sized dust to meter-sized boulders), was released, and a long-lasting tail has been observed over more than 9 months since impact. An important fraction of the ejecta mass has been ejected as individual meter-sized boulders, as have been found in images obtained by the Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroid (LICIACube), as well as from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). While the boulders observed by LICIACube had projected speeds of several tens of meter per second, those seen by the HST were about one hundred time slower. In this paper we analyze the long-term orbital evolution of those slow boulders using different dynamical codes, providing constraints on the fate of such large particles, and giving insight on the possibility of observing some of those boulders that might remain in orbit at the time of the ESA/Hera mission arrival to the binary system in late 2026.

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