Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005dps....37.1707d&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #37, #17.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.1563
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Recent modeling of the solar system dust bands has shown a significant discrepancy between the mean proper inclinations of the "ten-degree" band and the Eos asteroid family, its putative source. This has led to the suggestion that the dust bands did not result from the gradual comminution of large, ancient asteroid families but were instead produced by recent catastrophic disruptions of asteroids, such as those that generated the Karin cluster and the Veritas family.
The small particles produced in such collisional events spiral rapidly into the Sun under the effect of Poynting-Robertson (P-R) drag. Larger particles have correspondingly longer P-R drag lifetimes but are more likely to be fragmented by inter-particle collisions. It is these large particles and their collisional fragments that we observe today as the dust bands, the decaying remnant of a much larger influx of material. The structure of the dust bands is therefore determined by the combined dynamical and collisional behavior of a realistic size distribution of particles.
We present the results of numerical simulations showing the evolution of asteroidal dust particles under the effects of radiation pressure, P-R drag, solar wind drag, planetary perturbations, and stochastic size changes due to particle fragmentation. These results reveal that: (i) the orientation of the mean plane of symmetry of the dust bands outside 2AU is dominated by the effect of Jupiter as it evolves through its secular cycle and it is for this reason that we are able to observe the bands; (ii) the effect of inter-particle collisions introduces dispersion in the distribution of the particle orbits; and (iii) the inner edge to the dust bands at 2AU is a consequence of the effect of secular resonances dispersing particle orbits to the extent that the dust band signal merges into the flux from the background zodiacal cloud.
Dermott Stanley F.
Kehoe Thomas J. J.
Mahoney-Hopping L.
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