Using Kuiper Belt Binaries to Constrain Neptune's Migration History

Details Using Kuiper Belt Binaries to Constrain Neptune's Migration History Using Kuiper Belt Binaries to Constrain Neptune's Migration History

May 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010dda....41.0204m&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DDA meeting #41, #2.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.925

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Approximately 1/4 of all Kuiper belt objects with well-constrained orbits occupy mean-motion resonances with Neptune. This dynamical configuration likely resulted from resonant capture as Neptune migrated outward during the late stages of planet formation. The details of Neptune's planetesimal-driven migration, including its radial extent and the concurrent eccentricity evolution of the planet, are the subject of considerable debate. We demonstrate that the distribution of comparable-mass, wide-separation binaries occupying resonant orbits can constrain models of migration. This distribution will be measured by the upcoming surveys Pan-STARRS and LSST.

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