Chaotic dust dynamics and implications for the hemispherical color asymmetries of the Uranian satellites
arXiv:1306.3973 · doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2013.06.018
Abstract
Dust grains generated by the Uranian irregular satellites will undergo chaotic large-amplitude eccentricity oscillations under the simultaneous action of radiation forces and the highly misaligned quadrupole potentials of the oblate planet and distant Sun. From a suite of orbital histories, we estimate collision proba- bilities of dust particles with the regular satellites and argue that this process may explain the observed hemispherical color asymmetries of the outermost four regular satellites of Uranus.
26 pages, 5 figures, accepted in Icarus
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