Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 1983
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983icar...55..482h&link_type=abstract
Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 55, Sept. 1983, p. 482-494.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
36
Asteroid Belts, Jupiter (Planet), Solar System, Accretion Disks, Astronomical Models, Displacement, Evolution (Development), Gaps, Spatial Distribution, Asteroids, Resonance, Jupiter, Asteroid Belt, Gaps, Formation, Analysis, Density, Distribution, Disk, Accretion, Astronomy, Hecuba Gap
Scientific paper
In this paper an analytical model describing the effect of a displacement of the Jovian resonances in the asteroid belt is analyzed. It is found that a small displacement can transform a truncated uniform density distribution of asteroids into a gap. As a possible explanation for the displacement, the effect of the removal of an accretion disk in the early stage of the solar system is investigated. It is found that removal of a disk containing a few percent of the solar mass between the orbit of the asteroids and the orbit of Jupiter is sufficient to account for the observed Hecuba gap.
Henrard Jacques
Lemaître Aristide
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