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Persistent evidence of a jovian mass solar companion in the Oort cloud
Authors:John J Matese  Daniel P Whitmire
Institution:Department of Physics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504-4210, USA
Abstract:We present updated dynamical and statistical analyses of outer Oort cloud cometary evidence suggesting that the Sun has a wide-binary jovian mass companion. The results support a conjecture that there exists a companion of mass ≈View the MathML source orbiting in the innermost region of the outer Oort cloud. Our most restrictive prediction is that the orientation angles of the orbit plane in galactic coordinates are centered on Ω, the galactic longitude of the ascending node = 319° and i, the galactic inclination = 103° (or the opposite direction) with an uncertainty in the orbit normal direction subtending <2% of the sky. Such a companion could also have produced the detached Kuiper Belt object Sedna. If the object exists, the absence of similar evidence in the inner Oort cloud implies that common beliefs about the origin of observed inner Oort cloud comets must be reconsidered. Evidence of the putative companion would have been recorded by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) which has completed its primary mission and is continuing on secondary objectives.
Keywords:Comets  Dynamics  Celestial mechanics  Kuiper Belt  Jovian planets  Planetary dynamics
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