Explaining Neptune's Eccentricity
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
2021-06-18 v3
Abstract
Early migration damped Neptune's eccentricity. Here, we assume that the damped value was much smaller than the value observed today, and show that the closest flyby of star over in the field, at a distance of would explain the value of Neptune's eccentricity observed today.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2104.07672,
title = {Explaining Neptune's Eccentricity},
author = {Amir Siraj and Abraham Loeb},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.07672},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
2 pages, 1 figure; accepted for publication in RNAAS