Asteroid rotation excitation by subcatastrophic impacts

J 2013

Asteroid rotation excitation by subcatastrophic impacts

HENYCH, Tomáš a Petr PRAVEC

Základní údaje

Originální název

Asteroid rotation excitation by subcatastrophic impacts

Autoři

HENYCH, Tomáš (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí) a Petr PRAVEC (203 Česká republika)

Vydání

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, WILEY, 2013, 0035-8711

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10308 Astronomy

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

full text on arxiv.org

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 5.226

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/13:00069594

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt581

UT WoS

000319832300059

Klíčová slova anglicky

minor planets asteroids: general methods: numerical

Štítky

AKR, asteroids, collisions, excitation of rotation, rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 29. 4. 2014 09:40, Ing. Zdeňka Rašková

Anotace

V originále

Photometric observations of asteroids show that some of them are in non-principal axis rotation state (free precession), called tumbling. Collisions between asteroids have been proposed as a possible asteroid rotation excitation mechanism. We simulated subcatastrophic collisions between asteroids of various physical and material parameters to find out whether they could be responsible for the excited rotation. For every simulated target body after the collision, we computed its rotational lightcurve and we found that tumbling was photometrically detectable for the rotational axis misalignment angle \beta greater than about 15 deg. We found that subcatastrophic collisions are a plausible cause of non-principal axis rotation for small slowly rotating asteroids. The determining parameter is the ratio of the projectile orbital angular momentum to the target rotational angular momentum and we derived an approximate relation between this ratio and the angle \beta. We also compared the limiting energy for the onset of tumbling with the shattering energy. Slowly rotating asteroids of diameter 100 m and larger can be rotationally excited by collisions with energies below the shattering limit.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/0735/2012, interní kód MU

Název: Fyzika hvězd a vesmíru

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Fyzika hvězd a vesmíru, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

HENYCH, Tomáš a Petr PRAVEC. Asteroid rotation excitation by subcatastrophic impacts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. WILEY, 2013, roč. 432, č. 2, s. 1623-1631. ISSN 0035-8711. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt581.

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HENYCH, Tomáš a Petr PRAVEC. Asteroid rotation excitation by subcatastrophic impacts. \textit{Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}. WILEY, 2013, roč.~432, č.~2, s.~1623-1631. ISSN~0035-8711. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt581.

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