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On the dynamical evolution and end states of binary centaurs

Author(s) -

A. Brunini

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

monthly notices of the royal astronomical society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058

H-Index - 383

eISSN - 1365-8711

pISSN - 0035-8711

DOI - 10.1093/mnras/stt2045

Subject(s) - centaur , trans neptunian object , physics , binary number , planet , population , astrophysics , orbit (dynamics) , astronomy , celestial mechanics , astrobiology , aerospace engineering , arithmetic , mathematics , engineering , demography , sociology

In this paper, we perform a numerical integration of 666 fictitious binary Centaurs coming from the trans Neptunian space. Our population is restricted to tight binaries whose components have sizes between 30 and 100 km. We included the dynamical perturbations from the giant planets, Kozai Cycles induced by the Sun and tidal friction on the orbits of the binaries. We found that most binaries are d...

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