A dynamical mechanism for establishing apsidal resonance

Details A dynamical mechanism for establishing apsidal resonance A dynamical mechanism for establishing apsidal resonance

2002-07-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207126v1

Astrophys.J. 575 (2002) L33-L36

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

to appear in ApJ-Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/342637

We show that in a system of two planets initially in nearly circular orbits, an impulse perturbation that imparts a finite eccentricity to one planet's orbit causes the other planet's orbit to become eccentric as well, and also naturally results in a libration of their relative apsidal longitudes for a wide range of initial conditions. We suggest that such a mechanism may explain orbital eccentricities and apsidal resonance in some exo-planetary systems. The eccentricity impulse could be caused by the ejection of a planet from these systems, or by torques from a primordial gas disk. The amplitude of secular variations provides an observational constraint on the dynamical history of such systems.

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