MIGRATION OF A MOONLET IN A RING OF SOLID PARTICLES: THEORY AND APPLICATION TO SATURN'S PROPELLERS
MIGRATION OF A MOONLET IN A RING OF SOLID PARTICLES: THEORY AND APPLICATION TO SATURN'S PROPELLERS
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固体粒子环中小卫星的迁移:理论及其在土星螺旋桨中的应用
DOI:
10.1088/0004-6256/140/4/944
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2010
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Crida A
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Crida A
Hundred-meter-sized objects have been identified by the Cassini spacecraft in Saturn's A ring through the so-called propeller features they create in the ring. These moonlets should migrate due to their gravitational interaction with the ring; in fact, some orbital variations have been detected. The standard theory of type I migration of planets in protoplanetary disks cannot be applied to the ring system as it is pressureless. Thus, we compute the differential torque felt by a moonlet embedded in a two-dimensional disk of solid particles, with a flat surface density profile, both analytically and numerically. We find that the corresponding migration rate is too small to explain the observed variations of the propeller's orbit in Saturn's A ring. However, local density fluctuations (due to gravity wakes in the marginally gravitationally stable A ring) may exert a stochastic torque on a moonlet. Our simulations show that this torque can be large enough to account for the observations depending on the parameters of the rings. We find that on timescales of several years the migration of propellers is likely to be dominated by stochastic effects (while the former, non-stochastic migration dominates after∼ 10 4–10 5 years). In that case, the migration rates provided by observations so far suggest that the surface density of the A ring should be on the order of 700 kg m− 2. The age of the propellers should not exceed 1–100 million years depending on the dominant migration regime.
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影响因子:
3.2
作者:
M. Tiscareno;J. Burns;P. Nicholson;M. Hedman;C. Porco
通讯作者:
C. Porco
影响因子:
3.2
作者:
H. Zebker;E. Marouf;G. Leonard Tyler
通讯作者:
H. Zebker;E. Marouf;G. Leonard Tyler
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4020-9217-6_19
发表时间:
2009-01-01
期刊:
SATURN FROM CASSINI-HUYGENS
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作者:
Dones, Luke;Chapman, Clark R.;Zahnle, Kevin J.
通讯作者:
Zahnle, Kevin J.
影响因子:
64.8
作者:
F. Bridges;A. Hatzes;D. Lin
通讯作者:
F. Bridges;A. Hatzes;D. Lin
DOI:
10.1086/380992
发表时间:
2004
期刊:
The Astrophysical Journal
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作者:
Hidekazu Tanaka;W. Ward
通讯作者:
W. Ward