Ellipsoidal equilibrium figure and Cassini states of rotating planets and satellites deformed by a tidal potential in the spatial case

DOI10.1007/S10569-021-10053-5MaRDI QIDQ2073331zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hugo A. Folonier, Gwenaël Boué, Sylvio Ferraz-Mello

Publication date 1 February 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.13767

zbMATH Keywords

Cassini statesellipsoidal figure of equilibriumrotationspatial motiontidal potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Celestial mechanics (70F15)

Abstract: The equilibrium figure of an inviscid tidally deformed body is the starting point for the construction of many tidal theories such as Darwinian tidal theories or the hydrodynamical Creep tide theory. This paper presents the ellipsoidal equilibrium figure when the spin rate vector of the deformed body is not perpendicular to the plane of motion of the companion. We obtain the equatorial and the polar flattenings as functions of the Jeans and the Maclaurin flattenings, and of the angle $heta$ between the spin rate vector and the radius vector. The equatorial vertex of the equilibrium ellipsoid does not point toward the companion, which produces a torque perpendicular to the rotation vector, which introduces terms of precession and nutation. We find that the direction of spin may differ significantly from the direction of the principal axis of inertia $C$, so the classical approximation $mathsfIvecomegaapproxCvecomega$ only makes sense in the neighborhood of the planar problem. We also study the so-called Cassini states. Neglecting the short-period terms in the differential equation for the spin direction and assuming a uniform precession of the line of the orbital ascending node, we obtain the same differential equation as that found by Colombo (1966). That is, a tidally deformed inviscid body has exactly the same Cassini states as a rotating axisymmetric rigid body, the tidal bulge having no secular effect at first order.

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