Escape of particles orbiting asteroids in the presence of radiation pressure through separatrix splitting

DOI10.1023/A:1008201916186MaRDI QIDQ1373176zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Harry Dankowicz

Publication date 25 January 1999

Published in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1008201916186

zbMATH Keywords

Arnold diffusionErosexistence of four-dimensional normally hyperbolic invariant manifoldHamiltonian of restricted three-body problemhomoclinic tanglesMelnikov theorynearly-integrable systemphase spacesmooth five-dimensional homoclinic surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37J99) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40)

Review text

The dynamics of small grains orbiting minor planets in the asteroid belt is investigated. The problem takes into account the gravitational attraction of the Sun and the asteroid to the grain, and the influence of the radiation pressure from the Sun is also considered. The Hamiltonian of the restricted three-body problem including the radiation force is written in the form of a nearly-integrable system of three degrees of freedom. The structure of the phase space of the integrable part is studied, and the existence of a four-dimensional normally hyperbolic invariant manifold with a smooth five-dimensional homoclinic surface is confirmed. The existence of transverse intersections of the perturbed stable and unstable manifolds is numerically checked, and thus the appearance of homoclinic tangles is considered as a strong indication of Arnold diffusion. For the case of a grain orbiting Eros, it is estimated that an \(O(1)\) change in the action, resulting to the depletion of the orbiting grains, corresponds to a time scale of hundreds of years which is very short compared to the age of the the Solar system.

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