The Yarkovsky effect as a heat engine

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Jul 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004icar..170..229l&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 170, Issue 1, p. 229-233.

Physics

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Asteroid Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Entropy

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We show how the Yarkovsky effect can be understood as a heat engine. The output of the engine, manifested in the rate of change in semimajor axis of the body, has a maximum at an intermediate heat capacity, depending on the rotation rate of the body. This maximum arises because the work output depends on the product of the solar heat absorbed by the body and transported from its morning to evening side (this am-pm heat flux increases with heat capacity) and the Carnot efficiency (which declines with heat capacity).

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