A ring as a model of the main belt in planetary ephemerides
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Publication:3003103
DOI10.1051/0004-6361/200913346zbMATH Open1213.85019arXiv1004.3119OpenAlexW3101375450WikidataQ68972794 ScholiaQ68972794MaRDI QIDQ3003103FDOQ3003103
Agnès Fienga, H. Manche, Petr Kuchyňka, Jacques Laskar
Publication date: 25 May 2011
Published in: Astronomy and Astrophysics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We assess the ability of a solid ring to model a global perturbation induced by several thousands of main-belt asteroids. The ring is first studied in an analytical framework that provides an estimate of all the ring's parameters excepting mass. In the second part, numerically estimated perturbations on the Earth-Mars, Earth-Venus, and Earth-Mercury distances induced by various subsets of the main-belt population are compared with perturbations induced by a ring. To account for large uncertainties in the asteroid masses, we obtain results from Monte Carlo experiments based on asteroid masses randomly generated according to available data and the statistical asteroid model. The radius of the ring is analytically estimated at 2.8 AU. A systematic comparison of the ring with subsets of the main belt shows that, after removing the 300 most perturbing asteroids, the total main-belt perturbation of the Earth-Mars distance reaches on average 246 m on the 1969-2010 time interval. A ring with appropriate mass is able to reduce this effect to 38 m. We show that, by removing from the main belt ~240 asteroids that are not necessarily the most perturbing ones, the corresponding total perturbation reaches on average 472 m, but the ring is able to reduce it down to a few meters, thus accounting for more than 99% of the total effect.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.3119
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