Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-09-15
Astron.J. 121 (2001) 1736-1740
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Astronomical Journal
Scientific paper
10.1086/319401
We investigate resonant capture of small bodies by planets that migrate inwards, using analytic arguments and three-body integrations. If the orbits of the planet and the small body are initially circular and coplanar, the small body is captured when it crosses the 2:1 resonance with the planet. As the orbit shrinks it becomes more eccentric, until by the time its semimajor axis has shrunk by a factor of four, its eccentricity reaches nearly unity (1-e<<10^{-4}). In typical planetary systems, bodies in this high-eccentricity phase are likely to be consumed by the central star. If they can avoid this fate, as migration continues the inclination flips from 0 to i=180 degrees; thereafter the eccentricity declines until the semimajor axis is a factor of nine smaller than at capture, at which point the small body is released from the 2:1 resonance on a nearly circular retrograde orbit. Small bodies captured into resonance from initially inclined or eccentric orbits can also be ejected from the system, or released from the resonance on highly eccentric polar orbits (i\simeq 90 degrees) that are stabilized by a secular resonance. We conclude that migration can drive much of the inner planetesimal disk into the star, and that post-migration multi-planet systems may not be coplanar.
Tremaine Scott
Yu Qingjuan
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