Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Nov 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009a%26a...507.1041m&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 507, Issue 2, 2009, pp.1041-1052
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Planets And Satellites: Formation, Solar System: Formation
Scientific paper
Using numerical simulations, we show that smooth migration of the giant planets through a planetesimal disk leads to an orbital architecture that is inconsistent with the current one: the resulting eccentricities and inclinations of their orbits are too low. The crossing of mutual mean motion resonances by the planets would excite their orbital eccentricities but not their orbital inclinations. Moreover, the amplitudes of the eigenmodes characterising the current secular evolution of the eccentricities of Jupiter and Saturn would not be reproduced correctly, and only one eigenmode is excited by resonance-crossing. We show that, at the very least, encounters between Saturn and one of the ice giants (Uranus or Neptune) need to have occurred to reproduce the current secular properties of the giant planets, in particular the amplitude of the two strongest eigenmodes in the eccentricities of Jupiter and Saturn.
Brasser Ramon
Gomes Rodney
Levison Harold F.
Morbidelli Alessandro
Tsiganis Kleomenis
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