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Are Thalassa and Despina in Resonance Lock with Neptune’s Oscillations?

  • Authors: Matija Ćuk, Harrison F. Agrusa, Marina Brozović, Matthew M. Hedman

Matija Ćuk et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Purple: the increase of Naiad’s inclination as a function of its semimajor axis in a 3 × 105 yr simulation that included only Naiad and Thalassa, starting from the present day, and using Q/k2 = 33 for Neptune (i.e., it was accelerated by at least a factor of 1000). Green: a simple approximation of this dependence as ﹩i=7\mathop{.}\limits^{\unicode{x000b0}}195\sqrt{2.378-a}﹩.

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