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Dynamical Implications of the Recently Detected Feature around Quaoar and Constraints on the Presence of Additional Satellites

  • Authors: Gustavo Madeira, Leandro Esteves, Bruno E. Morgado, Paulo V. S. Soares, Silvia M. Giuliatti Winter, Othon C. Winter, Bruno S. Chagas

Gustavo Madeira et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

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Caption: Figure 7.

Initial semimajor axis and physical radius of a hypothetical additional moon that survives over 104 TQ without accreting ring particles, with the color scale indicating the maximum eccentricity induced by the moon on the ring particles. We consider the satellite associated with the feature with masses of (a) 0 (no satellite), (b) 2 × 10−5 MQ, (c) 10−4 MQ, and (d) 10−3 MQ. The hypothetical satellite (green diamond) and Weywot (purple diamond) are indicated by diamond markers, with their co-orbital regions shown as vertical bands. SORs with Quaoar, MMRs with the satellite, and MMRs with Weywot are marked by orange, green, and purple vertical lines, respectively. The locations of the SORs associated with Q1R and Q2R are highlighted by wider dashed orange lines.

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