An improved model of the Edgeworth-Kuiper debris disk
An improved model of the Edgeworth-Kuiper debris disk
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埃奇沃斯-柯伊伯碎片盘的改进模型
DOI:
10.1051/0004-6361/201118551
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
6.5
通讯作者:
T. Löhne
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作者:
Ch. Vitense;A.V. Krivov;H. Kobayashi;T. Löhne
In contrast to all other debris disks, where the dust can be seen via an infrared excess over the stellar photosphere, the dust emission of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt (EKB) eludes remote detection because of the strong foreground emission of the zodiacal cloud. We accessed the expected EKB dust disk properties by modeling. We treated the debiased population of the known trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) as parent bodies and generated the dust with our collisional code. The resulting dust distributions were modified to take into account the influence of gravitational scattering and resonance trapping by planets on migrating dust grains as well as the effect of sublimation. A difficulty with the modeling is that the amount and distribution of dust are largely determined by sub-kilometer-sized bodies. These are directly unobservable, and their properties cannot be accessed by collisional modeling, because objects larger than (10...60) m in the present-day EKB are not in a collisional equilibrium. To place additional constraints, we used in-situ measurements of the New Horizons spacecraft within 20 AU. We show that to sustain a dust disk consistent with these measurements, the TNO populationhasto have a break in the size distribution ats≲ 70 km. However, even this still leaves us with several models that all correctly reproduce nearly constant dust impact rates in the region of giant planet orbits and do not violate the constraints from the non-detection of the EKB dust thermal emission by the COBE spacecraft. The modeled EKB dust disks, which conform to the observational constraints, can either be transport-dominated or intermediate between the transport-dominated and collision-dominated regime. The in-plane optical depth of such disks isτ∥(r> 10 AU) ~ 10-6and their fractional luminosity isfd~ 10-7. Planets and sublimation are found to have little effect on dust impact fluxes and dust thermal emission. The spectral energy distribution of an EKB analog as seen from 10 pc distance peaks at wavelengths of (40...50)μm atF≈ 0.5 mJy, which is less than 1% of the photospheric flux at those wavelengths. Therefore, EKB analogs cannot be detected with present-day instruments such asHerschel/PACS.
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DOI:
10.1088/0004-637x/696/1/91
发表时间:
2008
期刊:
The Astrophysical Journal
影响因子:
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作者:
C. Fuentes;M. George;M. Holman
通讯作者:
M. Holman
DOI:
10.1086/300938
发表时间:
1999
期刊:
The Astronomical Journal
影响因子:
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作者:
J. Liou;H. Zook
通讯作者:
H. Zook
影响因子:
3.2
作者:
A. Krivov;M. Sremčević;F. Spahn
通讯作者:
F. Spahn
DOI:
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发表时间:
2019
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影响因子:
--
作者:
Ko Arimatsu;Kohji Tsumura;Fumihiko Usui;Shinnaka Yoshiharu;Kohei Ichikawa;Takafumi Ootsubo;Takayuki Kotani;Takehiko Wada;Koichi Nagase;Jun-ichi Watanabe
通讯作者:
Jun-ichi Watanabe
影响因子:
5.3
作者:
Fraser, Wesley C.;Kavelaars, J. J.
通讯作者:
Kavelaars, J. J.