dc.contributorUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
dc.creatorde Oliveira, Douglas Soldan
dc.creatorWinter, Othon Cabo
dc.creatorNeto, Ernesto Vieira
dc.creatorde Felipe, Gislaine
dc.date2014-05-20T15:29:59Z
dc.date2016-10-25T18:05:20Z
dc.date2014-05-20T15:29:59Z
dc.date2016-10-25T18:05:20Z
dc.date2007-06-01
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-06T00:14:32Z
dc.date.available2017-04-06T00:14:32Z
dc.identifierEarth Moon and Planets. Dordrecht: Springer, v. 100, n. 3-4, p. 233-239, 2007.
dc.identifier0167-9295
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/39443
dc.identifierhttp://acervodigital.unesp.br/handle/11449/39443
dc.identifier10.1007/s11038-007-9141-y
dc.identifierWOS:000246732200007
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11038-007-9141-y
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/882343
dc.descriptionThe irregular satellites of Jupiter are believed to be captured asteroids or planetesimals. In the present work is studied the direction of capture of these objects as a function of their orbital inclination. We performed numerical simulations of the restricted three-body problem, Sun-Jupiter-particle, taking into account the growth of Jupiter. The integration was made backward in time. Initially, the particles have orbits as satellites of Jupiter, which has its present mass. Then, the system evolved with Jupiter losing mass and the satellites escaping from the planet. The reverse of the escape direction corresponds to the capture direction. The results show that the Lagrangian points L1 and L2 mainly guide the direction of capture. Prograde satellites are captured through these two gates with very narrow amplitude angles. In the case of retrograde satellites, these two gates are wider. The capture region increases as the orbital inclination increases. In the case of planar retrograde satellites the directions of capture cover the whole 360 degrees around Jupiter. We also verified that prograde satellites are captured earlier in actual time than retrograde ones.
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relationEarth Moon and Planets
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subjectirregular satellites
dc.subjectgravitational capture
dc.subjectthree-body problem
dc.subjectcapture direction
dc.subjectJupiter's growth
dc.titleIrregular Satellites of Jupiter: a study of the capture direction
dc.typeOtro


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