Bending waves and orbital inclinations
Abstract
Disk tides may play an important role in the formation of a planetary system. Modification of protoplanet semi-major axes and eccentricities through density waves was suggested and calculations of linear and non-linear protoplanet-nebula interactions were carried out by a number of researchers. The possible significance of radial drift to the accretion process was discussed, while the evolution of orbital eccentricities was studied for a perturber orbiting external to a ring and for a perturber embedded in the ring. The possible importance of bending waves to the early evolution of protoplanet inclinations is described.
- Publication:
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A Bibliography of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Principal Investigators and their Associates, 1990 - 1991
- Pub Date:
- June 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991pggp.rept..430W
- Keywords:
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- Accretion Disks;
- Density Wave Model;
- Eccentricity;
- Inclination;
- Orbit Calculation;
- Orbit Perturbation;
- Orbital Elements;
- Planetary Rings;
- Protoplanets;
- Astronomical Models;
- Celestial Mechanics;
- Computational Astrophysics;
- Nebulae;
- Orbital Mechanics;
- Orbital Resonances (Celestial Mechanics);
- Perturbation Theory;
- Planetary Evolution;
- Astrophysics