Abstract
On the basis of their orbital elements, present-day Kuiper belt objects can be grouped into distinct dynamical classes: classical, resonant and scattered ones. Jiang & Yeh have proposed gas-drag-induced resonant capture in a protostellar disc analogous to the primordial solar nebula as a mechanism able to explain the dominant 3:2 resonant population observed in Kuiper belt objects. de la Fuente Marcos & de la Fuente Marcos further investigated the drag-induced mechanism numerically. Our significant contribution is a hydrodynamic theory derivation of results obtained in the Jiang & Yeh and de la Fuente Marcos & de la Fuente Marcos numerical simulations.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1032-1037 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
| Volume | 396 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2009 |
Keywords
- Celestial mechanics
- Kuiper Belt
- Planetary systems
- Solar system: formation
- Solar system: general
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Space and Planetary Science
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