English

Strength, stability and three dimensional structure of mean motion resonances in the Solar System

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2018-08-15 v1

Abstract

In the framework of the circular restricted three body problem we show that the numerically computed strength SR(e,i,w) is a good indicator of the strength and width of the mean-motion resonances in the full space (e,i,w). We present a survey of strengths in the space (e,i) for typical interior and exterior resonances. The resonance strength is highly dependent on (e,i,w) except for exterior resonances of the type 1:k for which the dependence with (i,w) is softer. Such resonances are thus strong even for retrograde orbits. All other resonances are weaker at very-high eccentricities for w ~ 90 or 270 and 60 < i < 120. We explore the resonance structure in the space (a,i) by means of dynamical maps and we find structures similar to those of space (a,e).

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@article{arxiv.1807.07956,
  title  = {Strength, stability and three dimensional structure of mean motion resonances in the Solar System},
  author = {Tabare Gallardo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.07956},
  year   = {2018}
}