Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jun 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009apj...698l..42g&link_type=abstract
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 698, Issue 1, pp. L42-L45 (2009).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Celestial Mechanics, Planetary Systems, Planets And Satellites: General
Scientific paper
For studies of tidal evolution, values of the key parameter Q, and its frequency dependence, are often derived from estimates of internal energy dissipation when a satellite, planet, or star is physically distorted. Such estimates come from geophysical or astrophysical modeling, from seismic data, from ad hoc assumptions, or from constraints based on current spins and orbits. In a standard procedure, Q values are used to determine the lag in the response to each Fourier component of the tidal potential. The separate components are then co-added. The basis for this procedure is the analogy of the damped, driven, harmonic oscillator. However, this lag-and-add procedure would not be justifiable even for such a simple system, except for a very specific dependence of Q on frequency. There is no reason to expect the lag-and-add procedure to be relevant for a complex system, because the relationship between dissipation rates and tidal lags is unknown. This widely applied type of model is a reasonable approximation only if the decomposed tidal potential involves a narrow range of frequencies, and thus may only be appropriate for analyses to low order in orbital eccentricity and inclination.
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