Kuiper Belt structure as a reflection of the migration process of a planet |
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Authors: | V V Emel’yanenko |
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Institution: | 1.Institute of Astronomy,Russian Academy of Sciences,Moscow,Russia |
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Abstract: | One of the main particular features of the structure of the Kuiper Belt is that it contains clusters of objects of small orbital
eccentricity and inclination (“cold population”). In order to solve the problem of the origin of the objects, we considered
the process of the gravitational interaction of a comparatively small-mass planet with a planetesimal disk. We found that
one particular property of the process is that the planet changes its direction of migration. The interaction with the planet
results in the transportation of a considerable portion of planetesimals from the inner zone out to the Kuiper Belt. After
such a transition of the objects, the planet returns to the inner regions of the planetesimal disk. Numerical simulations
show that the reversible migration of a planet of a mass similar to that of the Earth can explain the main properties of the
Kuiper Belt’s cold population orbit distribution. |
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