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We present a wide-ranging but in-depth analysis of Centaurs, focusing on their physical and structural aspects. Centaurs, originating from the Scattered Disk and Kuiper Belt, play a crucial role in our understanding of Solar System…

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The Centaurs are the small solar system bodies intermediate between the active inner solar system Jupiter Family Comets and their inactive progenitors in the trans-Neptunian region. Among the fraction of Centaurs which show comet-like…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Theodore Kareta , Benjamin Sharkey , John Noonan , Kathryn Volk , Vishnu Reddy , Walter Harris , Richard Miles

In a previous paper, we have presented a global view of the stability of Neptune Trojan (NT hereafter) on inclined orbit. We discuss in this paper the dependence of stability of NT orbits on the eccentricity. High-resolution dynamical maps…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Li-Yong Zhou , Rudolf Dvorak , Yi-Sui Sun

Jovian co-orbitals share Jupiter's orbit in 1:1 mean motion resonance. This includes $>$10,000 so-called Trojan asteroids surrounding the leading (L4) and trailing (L5) Lagrange points, viewed as stable groups dating back to planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-12 Sarah Greenstreet , Brett Gladman , Mario Juric

The Jupiter Trojans are a significant population of minor bodies in the middle Solar System that have garnered substantial interest in recent years. Several spectroscopic studies of these objects have revealed notable bimodalities with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-12 Ian Wong , Michael E. Brown , Joshua P. Emery

Planets intermediate in size between the Earth and Neptune, and orbiting closer to their host stars than Mercury does the Sun, are the most common type of planet revealed by exoplanet surveys over the last quarter century. Results from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Jacob L. Bean , Sean N. Raymond , James E. Owen

Dormant comets in the near-Earth object (NEO) population are thought to be involved in the terrestrial accretion of water and organic materials. Identification of dormant comets is difficult as they are observationally indistinguishable…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Quan-Zhi Ye , Peter G. Brown , Petr Pokorný

Supernova remnants (SNRs) have long been suspected to be the primary sources of Galactic cosmic rays. Over the past decades, great strides have been made in the modelling of particle acceleration, magnetic field amplification, and escape…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-18 Anton Stall , Chun Khai Loo , Philipp Mertsch

Neutron stars provide a fertile environment for exploring superfluidity under extreme conditions. It is not surprising that Cooper pairing occurs in dense matter since nucleon pairing is observed in nuclei as energy differences between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-24 Dany Page , James M. Lattimer , Madappa Prakash , Andrew W. Steiner

In this paper, I review some of the basic properties of the pulsar population in globular clusters (GCs) and compare it with the the Galactic disk population. The neutron stars (NSs) in GCs were likely formed - and appear to continue…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Paulo C. C. Freire

In the list of young stellar objects compiled by Megeath et al. (2012) for the Orion A molecular cloud, only 44 out of 1208 sources found projected onto low extinction (Ak<0.8 mag) gas are identified as protostars. These objects are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-13 John Arban Lewis , Charles J Lada

Aims. 2015 BZ509 is the first asteroid confirmed to be in retrograde co-orbit resonance (or 1/-1 resonance) with the giant planets in the solar system. While Saturn is the only giant planet whose Trojans are not discovered until now, we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 Miao Li , Yukun Huang , Shengping Gong

We present numerical simulations to model the production of observable long-period comets (LPCs) from the Oort Cloud, a vast reservoir of icy bodies surrounding the Sun. We show that inner Oort Cloud objects can penetrate Jupiter's orbit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Nathan A. Kaib , Thomas Quinn

The Oort cloud and the scattered disk are the two primary reservoirs for long-period and short-period comets, respectively. In this review, we assess the known observational constraints on these reservoirs' properties and their formation.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-02 Nathan A. Kaib , Kathryn Volk

The origin and long-term evolution of Saturn's rings is still an unsolved problem in modern planetary science. In this chapter we review the current state of our knowledge on this long-standing question for the main rings (A, Cassini…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Sebastien Charnoz , Luke Dones , Larry W. Esposito , Paul R. Estrada , Matthew M. Hedman

The outer giant planets, Uranus and Neptune, pose a challenge to theories of planet formation. They exist in a region of the Solar System where long dynamical timescales and a low primordial density of material would have conspired to make…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Edward W. Thommes , Martin J. Duncan , Harold F. Levison

We use numerical integrations to investigate the dynamical evolution of resonant Trojan and quasi-satellite companions during the late stages of migration of the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Our migration simulations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Stephen J. Kortenkamp , Emily C. S. Joseph

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), beginning full operations in late 2025, will dramatically transform solar system science by vastly expanding discoveries and providing detailed characterization…

The Neptunian satellite system is unusual, comprising Triton, a large ($\sim2700$ km) moon on a close-in, circular, yet retrograde orbit, flanked by Nereid, the largest irregular satellite ($\sim$300 km) on a highly eccentric orbit. Capture…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-07 Daohai Li , Apostolos A. Christou

The last three decades the asteroid (1) Ceres is an object of the intensive ground-and space-based observations. A new unusual contributing to these studies represents the recent detection of localized sources of water vapour releasing from…

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