A Survey of Newtonian Core-Shell Systems with Pseudo High Order Symplectic Integrator and Fast Lyapunov Indicator     

Jun-Fang Zhu Xin Wu Da-Zhu Ma 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2007,7(4):601-610

Newtonian core-shell systems, as limiting cases of relativistic core-shell models under the two conditions of weak field and slow motion, could account for massive circumstellar dust shells and rings around certain types of star remnants. Because this kind of systems have Hamiltonians that can be split into a main part and a small perturbing part, a good choice of the numerical tool is the pseudo 8th order symplectic integrator of Laskar ＆ Robutel, and, to match the symplectic calculations, a good choice of chaos indicator is the fast Lyapunov indicator （FLI） with two nearby trajectories proposed by Wu, Huang ＆ Zhang. Numerical results show that the FLI is very powerful when describing not only the transition from regular motion to chaos but also the global structure of the phase space of the system.  相似文献   

Resonant relaxation near a massive black hole: the dependence on eccentricity     

M. Atakan Gürkan  Clovis Hopman 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,379(3):1083-1088

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Long-term tidal evolution of short-period planets with companions   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Rosemary A. Mardling 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,382(4):1768-1790

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Production of trans-Neptunian binaries through chaos-assisted capture     

Ernestine A. Lee  Sergey A. Astakhov  David Farrelly 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,379(1):229-246

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Problem of the motion of a star inside a layered inhomogeneous elliptical galaxy with a variable mass     

S. A. Gasanov 《Astronomy Letters》2007,33(12):827-843

The problem of the motion of a star inside a layered inhomogeneous rotating elliptical galaxy with a variable mass is considered. We have found an analogue of the Jacobi integral and determined the possible regions of motion. A solution to the equations of perturbed motion has been obtained.  相似文献   

Close encounters in young stellar clusters: implications for planetary systems in the solar neighbourhood     

Daniel Malmberg  Francesca De Angeli  Melvyn B. Davies  Ross P. Church  Dougal Mackey  Mark I. Wilkinson 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,378(3):1207-1216

The stars that populate the solar neighbourhood were formed in stellar clusters. Through N -body simulations of these clusters, we measure the rate of close encounters between stars. By monitoring the interaction histories of each star, we investigate the singleton fraction in the solar neighbourhood. A singleton is a star which formed as a single star, has never experienced any close encounters with other stars or binaries, or undergone an exchange encounter with a binary. We find that, of the stars which formed as single stars, a significant fraction is not singletons once the clusters have dispersed. If some of these stars had planetary systems, with properties similar to those of the Solar System, the planets' orbits may have been perturbed by the effects of close encounters with other stars or the effects of a companion star within a binary. Such perturbations can lead to strong planet–planet interactions which eject several planets, leaving the remaining planets on eccentric orbits. Some of the single stars exchange into binaries. Most of these binaries are broken up via subsequent interactions within the cluster, but some remain intact beyond the lifetime of the cluster. The properties of these binaries are similar to those of the observed binary systems containing extrasolar planets. Thus, dynamical processes in young stellar clusters will alter significantly any population of Solar System-like planetary systems. In addition, beginning with a population of planetary systems exactly resembling the Solar System around single stars, dynamical encounters in young stellar clusters may produce at least some of the extrasolar planetary systems observed in the solar neighbourhood.  相似文献   

The total number of giant planets in debris discs with central clearings     

Peter Faber  Alice C. Quillen 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,382(4):1823-1828

Infrared spectra from the Spitzer Space Telescope ( SSC ) of many debris discs are well fit with a single blackbody temperature which suggest clearings within the disc. We assume that clearings are caused by orbital instability in multiple planet systems with similar configurations to our own. These planets remove dust-generating planetesimal belts as well as dust generated by the outer disc that is scattered or drifts into the clearing. From numerical integrations, we estimate a minimum planet spacing required for orbital instability (and so planetesimal and dust removal) as a function of system age and planet mass. We estimate that a 10⁸ yr old debris disc with a dust disc edge at a radius of 50 au hosted by an A star must contain approximately five Neptune mass planets between the clearing radius and the iceline in order to remove all primordial objects within it. We infer that known debris disc systems contain at least a fifth of a Jupiter mass in massive planets. The number of planets and spacing required is insensitive to the assumed planet mass. However, an order of magnitude higher total mass in planets could reside in these systems if the planets are more massive.  相似文献   

Can N-body systems generate periodic gravitational waves?     

T. Chiba  T. Imai  H. Asada 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,377(1):269-272

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干涉技术在天体测量中的应用     

金文敬 《天文学进展》2007,25(4):346-363

介绍了射电、光学和红外波段地面干涉的仪器以及近期的进展,如厘米波段的VLBA、EVLA、SKA等;毫米波段的ALMA、CARMA等;光学波段的Keck、VLTI/PRIMA,CHARA、MarkⅢ、NPOI、LBTI等.叙述了目前干涉技术在空间天体测量中应用的一些研究项目。如射电波段的VSOP、iARISE、RadioAstro;光学波段的HST/FGS、SIM PlanetQuest等.探讨了干涉技术在天体测量中的有关研究课题,并概述了其在我国的发展和应用情况.  相似文献   

干支回推-天文年代学的一种新方法     

李勇 《天文学报》2007,48(2):256-268

“干支回推法”是针对中国历史时期所特有的干支材料而设计的新天文年代学方法．以一组假设的材料为例,系统地给出了该方法的完整求解过程．指出该方法的优势在于准确高效,能有效地处理某些年代学难题．此外,除材料的公历日期外还能将当时的历法细节一同迭代解出．  相似文献