4 papers
Dynamics of planetary rings under thermal forces
Wen-Han Zhou, Eiichiro Kokubo, Harrison Agrusa +5
Planetary rings provide natural laboratories for studying the fundamental processes that govern the evolution of planetary systems. However, several key features, such as the sharp…
Exploring rotational properties and the YORP effect in asteroid families
Gabriele Bertinelli, Wen-Han Zhou, Paolo Tanga
The long-term dynamical evolution of asteroid families is governed by the interplay between orbital and rotational evolution driven by thermal forces and collision. We aim to obser…
Confined tumbling state as the origin of the excess of slowly rotating asteroids
Wen-Han Zhou, Patrick Michel, Marco Delbo +4
The rotational distribution of asteroids as a function of their size is used {as a diagnostic of} their physical properties and evolution. Recent photometric surveys from the Gaia…
The binary Yarkovsky effect on the primary asteroid with applications to singly synchronous binary asteroids
Wen-Han Zhou
The binary Yarkovsky effect on the secondary asteroid (BYS) was recently discovered to influence binary asteroid systems by pushing the secondary asteroid toward a synchronous orbi…