2 papers
astro-ph.EP2025
Limits of Standard Tidal Models at Quaoar: Matching Weywot's Orbit, Missing the Spin
Zsolt Regaly, Viktoria Frohlich, Csaba Kiss
Weywot, Quaoar's small satellite, follows a nearly circular orbit at a distance of 12.9 times Quaoar's diameter and coexists with a compact ring system. Nevertheless, Quaoar's flat…
astro-ph.EP2025
Celestial sunflowers -- Survival of rings around small planetary bodies under solar radiation pressure
Zs. Regaly, V. Frohlich, Cs. Kiss
Context: Rings around giant planets are a common feature of the solar system. Even though solar radiation pressure is known to destabilize rings by exciting the orbital eccentricit…