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Resonant Kuiper belt objects: a review [PDF]

open access: yesGeoscience Letters, 2019
Our understanding of the history of the solar system has undergone a revolution in recent years, owing to new theoretical insights into the origin of Pluto and the discovery of the Kuiper belt and its rich dynamical structure.
Renu Malhotra
doaj   +6 more sources

CORRALLING A DISTANT PLANET WITH EXTREME RESONANT KUIPER BELT OBJECTS [PDF]

open access: yesAstrophysical Journal Letters, 2016
ABSTRACT The four longest period Kuiper Belt objects have orbital periods close to integer ratios with each other. A hypothetical planet with an orbital period of ∼17,117 years and a semimajor axis ∼665 au would have N/1 and N/2 period ratios with these four objects.
Kathryn Volk   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

The drag-induced resonant capture for Kuiper Belt objects [PDF]

open access: yesMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2004
It has been an interesting question that why there are one-third of Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) trapped into the 3:2 resonance but, in contrast, only several KBOs are claimed to be associated with the 2:1 resonance. In a model proposed by Zhou et al. (2002), the stochastic outward migration of the Neptune could reduce the number of particles in the 2:1 ...
Jiang, Ing-Guey, Yeh, Li-Chin
openaire   +3 more sources

Photometry of Kuiper Belt Objects in Inner and Outer Mean Motion Resonances with Neptune

open access: yesThe Astronomical Journal
We present a time-resolved photometric survey of Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) trapped in the inner and outer Neptune resonances. Lightcurves and rotational properties provide constraints on the shapes, internal structures, collisional histories, and ...
Audrey Thirouin, Scott S. Sheppard
doaj   +3 more sources

Destroying resonance between Neptune and its resonant Kuiper Belt Objects by stochastic planetesimal scatterings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
We revisit the destruction of resonance between Neptune and Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) by random planetesimal scatterings, which has been studied by Murray-Clay and Chiang (2006) previously. In this work, we consider the encounters between Neptune's resonant KBOs and planetesimals and the Levy flight behavior of resonant KBOs corresponding to a single ...
Jiang, Peng, Chiang, Eugene
core   +3 more sources

A new multiple-arc model of the resonant Kuiper belt objects – Plutinos

open access: yesMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
ABSTRACT To incorporate the gravitational influence of Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) in planetary ephemerides, uniform-ring models are commonly employed. In this paper, for representing the KBO population residing in Neptune’s 2:3 mean motion resonance (MMR), known as the Plutinos, we introduce a three-arc model by considering their ...
Jian Li
exaly   +3 more sources

CHAOTIC DIFFUSION OF RESONANT KUIPER BELT OBJECTS [PDF]

open access: yesThe Astronomical Journal, 2009
We carried out extensive numerical orbit integrations to probe the long-term chaotic dynamics of the two strongest mean motion resonances of Neptune in the Kuiper belt, the 3:2 (Plutinos) and 2:1 (Twotinos). Our primary results include a computation of the relative volumes of phase space characterized by large- and small-resonance libration amplitudes,
Tiscareno, Matthew S., Malhotra, Renu
openaire   +2 more sources

Col-OSSOS: The Distribution of Surface Classes in Neptune's Resonances

open access: yesThe Planetary Science Journal, 2023
The distribution of surface classes of resonant trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) provides constraints on the protoplanetesimal disk and giant planet migration.
Rosemary E. Pike   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Dynamical Survey of the Trans-Neptunian Region. I. Mean-motion Resonances with Neptune

open access: yesThe Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2023
In this paper, we present a large-scale dynamical survey of the trans-Neptunian region, with particular attention to mean-motion resonances (MMRs). We study a set of 4121 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), a sample far larger than in previous works.
E. Forgács-Dajka   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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