Thursday, January 24, 2019

Planet 9 or an icy disc? Complementary hypotheses

Shepherding in a Self-Gravitating Disk of Trans-Neptunian Objects

A relatively massive and moderately eccentric disk of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) can effectively counteract apse precession induced by the outer planets, and in the process shepherd highly eccentric members of its population into nearly-stationary configurations which are anti-aligned with the disk itself.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06859

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