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Irregular Moons Possibly Injected from the Outer Solar System by a Stellar Flyby

  • Authors: Susanne Pfalzner, Amith Govind, Frank W. Wagner

Susanne Pfalzner et al 2024 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 972 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Evolution of the injected TNO population over the first 1 Gyr after the stellar flyby (300 au initial disk size). Top: distribution of prograde (blue lines) and retrograde (red lines) TNOs as a function of periastron distance at 12 kyr (solid lines) and 1 Gyr (dashed lines). Bottom: distribution of inclination for the test particles remaining bound at 12 kyr, 100 Myr, and 1 Gyr, respectively.

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