On the stability of dust orbits in mean-motion resonances perturbed by from an interstellar wind

DOI10.1007/S10569-014-9558-3zbMATH Open1298.70016arXiv1307.3350OpenAlexW2213403660MaRDI QIDQ468567FDOQ468567

Authors: Pavol Pástor 

Publication date: 7 November 2014

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

Abstract: Circumstellar dust particles can be captured in a mean motion resonance with a planet and simultaneously be affected by non-gravitational effects. It is possible to describe the secular variations of a particle orbit in the mean motion resonance analytically using averaged resonant equations. We derive the averaged resonant equations from the equations of motion in near-canonical form. The secular variations of the particle orbit depending on the orientation of the orbit in space are taken into account. The averaged resonant equations can be derived/confirmed also from Lagrange's planetary equations. We apply the derived theory to the case when the non-gravitational effects are the Poynting--Robertson effect, the radial stellar wind, and an interstellar wind. The analytical and numerical results obtained are in excellent agreement. We found that the types of orbits correspond to libration centers of the conservative problem. The averaged resonant equations can lead to a system of equations which hold for stationary points in a subset of resonant variables. Using this system we show analytically that for the considered non-gravitational effects, all stationary points should correspond to orbits which are stationary in interplanetary space after an averaging over a synodic period. In an exact resonance, the stationary orbits are stable. The stability is achieved by a periodic repetition of the evolution during the synodic period. Numerical solutions of this system show that there are no stationary orbits for either the exact or non-exact resonances.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3350

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zbMATH Keywords

Poynting-Robertson effectaveraged resonant equationsinterplanetary dustinterstellar gas flowmean-motion resonancesstellar wind

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Celestial mechanics (70F15) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30) Stability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K20)

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