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Resonant Gaps in the Scattered Cometary Population of the Trans-Neptunian Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Tanya Taidakova ,
Leonid M. Ozernoy  and
Nick N. Gorkavyi
Tanya Taidakova
Affiliation:
Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Ukraine
Leonid M. Ozernoy
Affiliation:
5C3, School of Computational Sciences and Department of Physics & Astronomy, George Mason U., Fairfax, VA 22030-4444, USA
Nick N. Gorkavyi
Affiliation:
NRC/NAS; NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA

Abstract

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Our numerical simulations of the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt objects gravitationally scattered by the four giant planets accounting for mean motion resonances reveal numerous resonant gaps in the distribution of the scattered population.

Type
II. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 12: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIVth General Assembly of the IAU, 2000 , 2002 , pp. 251 - 252
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2002

References

Malhotra, R., Duncan M., & Levison, H. 1999, astro-ph/9901155Google Scholar
Ozernoy, L.M., Gorkavyi, N.N., Taidakova, T., 2000, Planetary Space Sci. 48, 993 Google Scholar