Mathematics – Probability
Scientific paper
Dec 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000dps....32.6523r&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS Meeting #32, #65.23; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1643
Mathematics
Probability
Scientific paper
Precise measurements of D/H in Halley and Hyakutake reveal larger excess of D than in Uranus and Neptune. This might imply that at least a fraction of Oort cloud comets have been accumulated in a cooler environment beyond the planetary system. This paper suggests that the scattering of planetesimals from the periphery of the protoplanetary disk by a passing star might have included them in the populating of the Oort cloud. The probability of the necessary close encounter is very small in the present Galactic environment of the solar system. However it might be relatively high if the solar system was formed in a denser environment, like the Rho Ophiuchus star-forming region or a small and dense cloud core which fragmented during the collapse to form a small group of stars. Outcomes of a passage of a star with mass 1 to 0.3 solar masses were studied numerically by Everhart method. Disk penetrating or disk grazing encounters revealed that planetesimals closest to the stellar trajectory can be ejected from the solar system or sent on highly eccentric bound orbits. Some planetesimals acquire orbits with perihelion distances larger than planet orbits, i.e., become immediate members of the Oort cloud. For others, external pertubations cause stochastic growth of perihelion distances and decoupling from the planetary system, transferring them into the Oort cloud. These Oort cloud bodies could be accumulated well beyond the planetary system, and preserve higher D/H, CO ice, etc.
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