Disk-satellite interactions

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Oct 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980apj...241..425g&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 241, Oct. 1, 1980, p. 425-441.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Jupiter (Planet), Momentum Transfer, Natural Satellites, Planetary Evolution, Protoplanets, Angular Momentum, Celestial Mechanics, Resonance, Solar System

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The rate at which angular momentum and energy are transferred between a disk and a satellite which orbit a central mass is calculated. It is shown that the angular momentum and energy transfer at Lindblad resonances tends to increase the satellite's orbit to lowest order in eccentricity, whereas the transfer at corotation resonances tends to decrease it. The results are applied to the interaction between Jupiter and the protoplanetary disk. The angular momentum transfer is shown to be so rapid that substantial changes in both the structure of the disk and the orbit of Jupiter must have taken place on a time scale of a few thousand years.

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