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  • 标题:Not a Simple Relationship between Neptune’s Migration Speed and Kuiper Belt Inclination Excitation
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  • 作者:Kathryn Volk ; Renu Malhotra
  • 期刊名称:The Astronomical journal
  • 印刷版ISSN:0004-6256
  • 电子版ISSN:1538-3881
  • 出版年度:2019
  • 卷号:158
  • 期号:2
  • 页码:1-13
  • DOI:10.3847/1538-3881/ab2639
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:American Institute of Physics
  • 摘要:We present numerical simulations of giant planet migration in our solar system and examine how the speed of planetary migration affects inclinations in the resulting population of small bodies (test particles) scattered outward and subsequently captured into Neptune’s 3:2 mean motion resonance (the Plutinos), as well as the hot classical Kuiper Belt population. We do not find a consistent relationship between the degree of test particle inclination excitation and e-folding planet migration timescales in the range 5–50 Myr. Our results present a counterexample to Nesvornýʼs finding that the Plutino and hot classical inclinations showed a marked increase with increasing e-folding timescales for Neptune’s migration. We argue that these differing results are likely due to differing secular architectures of the giant planets during and after migration. Small changes in the planets’ initial conditions and differences in the numerical implementation of planet migration can result in different amplitudes of the planets’ inclination secular modes, and this can lead to different final inclination distributions for test particles in the simulations. We conclude that the observed large inclination dispersion of Kuiper Belt objects does not require Nept une’s migration to be slow; planetary migration with e-folding timescales of 5, 10, 30, and 50Myr can all yield inclination dispersions similar to the observed Plutino and hot classical populations, with no correlation between the degree of inclination excitation and migration speed.
  • 关键词:Kuiper belt: general
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