Dynamics of Enceladus and Dione inside the 2/1 Mean-motion Resonance

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In a previous work (Callegari and Yokoyama 2007, Celestial Mechanics vol. 98), the main features of the motion of the pair Enceladus-Dione were analyzed in the frozen regime, i.e., without considering the tidal evolution. Here, the results of lots of numerical simulations of a pair of satellites similar to Enceladus and Dione crossing the 2/1 mean-motion resonance are shown. The resonance crossing is modeled with a linear tidal theory, considering a two-degrees-of-freedom model written in the framework of the general three-body planar problem. The main regimes of motion of the system during the passage through resonance are studied in detail. We discuss our results comparing them with classical scenarios of tidal evolution of the system.
This work is supported by Fapesp (06/58000-2; 06/61379-3).

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