A proof that tidal heating in a synchronous rotation is always larger than in an asymptotic nonsynchronous rotation state

Details A proof that tidal heating in a synchronous rotation is always larger than in an asymptotic nonsynchronous rotation state A proof that tidal heating in a synchronous rotation is always larger than in an asymptotic nonsynchronous rotation state

2007-10-30

arxiv.org/abs/0710.5651v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 0 figure. accepted for publication in "Icarus"

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.icarus.2007.10.003

In a recent paper, Wisdom (2007, Icarus, in press) derived concise expressions for the rate of tidal dissipation in a synchronously rotating body for arbitrary orbital eccentricity and obliquity. He provided numerical evidence than the derived rate is always larger than in an asymptotic nonsynchronous rotation state at any obliquity and eccentricity. Here, I present a simple mathematical proof of this conclusion and show that this result still holds for any spin-orbit resonance.

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