Impact of a Moon on the evolution of a planet's rotation axis: a non-resonant case
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Publication:2138503
DOI10.1007/S10569-022-10077-5zbMATH Open1490.70059arXiv2101.03429OpenAlexW4224267672MaRDI QIDQ2138503FDOQ2138503
P. S. Krasil'nikov, Olga Podvigina
Publication date: 12 May 2022
Published in: Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We investigate how the variation of the obliquity (the axial tilt) of a hypothetical exo-Earth is effected by the presence of a satellite, an exo-Moon. Namely, we study analytically and numerically how the range of obliquity of the exo-Earth changes if an exo-Moon is added to a system comprised of exo-Sun, exo-Earth and exo-planets. We say that the impact of the exo-Moon is stabilising if upon the addition of the exo-Moon the range of obliquity decreases, while we call the impact destabilising if the range increases as the exo-Moon is added to the system. The problem is considered in a general setup. The exo-Earth is assumed to be rigid, axially symmetric and almost spherical, the difference between the largest and the smallest principal moments of inertia being a small parameter of the problem. Assuming the orbits of the celestial bodies to be quasiperiodic, we apply time averaging to study rotation of the exo-Earth at times large compared to the respective periods. Non-resonant frequencies are assumed. We identify a class of systems for which we prove analytically that the impact of the exo-Moon is stabilising and a class where it is destabilising. We also investigate numerically how the impact of the exo-Moon in a particular system comprised of a star and two planets varies on modifying the geometry of the orbits of the exo-Moon and the second planet and the initial obliquity.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03429
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