Distribution of cometary binding energies based on the assumption of steady state

Details Distribution of cometary binding energies based on the assumption of steady state Distribution of cometary binding energies based on the assumption of steady state

Sep 1983

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 204, Sept. 1983, p. 1185-1191.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Celestial Mechanics, Comets, Integral Equations, Spatial Distribution, Steady State, Oort Cloud, Planetary Environments, Solar System

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The assumption that the cometary population is in a steady state is adopted, and it is shown that the integral equation derived by Oort (1950) based on this assumption has an exact numerical solution which can be compared in detail with observational data. It is found that the assumption of a steady state cometary population is inconsistent with the observed 1/a distribution, where a is the semimajor axis, there being an excess of new comets in Oort's sense. The disagreement cannot be removed by taking physical disintegration of comets into account, and is even enhanced if comets in interval I are added to the category of new comets.

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