Mutual Inclinations of Ultra-Wide Trans-Neptunian Binaries

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf.1350p&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1350

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After compiling observations stretching over the last decade, we have determined accurate and precise mutual orbit solutions for all known Ultra-Wide Trans- Neptunian Binaries (TNBs). For all seven binaries in our sample, we have broken the mirror degeneracy in the pole solution, and therefore have non-ambiguous measurements of mutual inclination. These inclinations rule out several binary formation scenarios, and point to formation in a dynamically-cold disk. We present the inclination distribution of ultra-wide TNBs, simulations of collisional evolution of the inclination distribution, and implications for the state of the early Kuiper Belt during the era of binary formation.

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