The stability of the solar system dynamical evolution via Nice Model

• Grant number: 15/15588-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: December 01, 2015
• End date: August 02, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy - Solar System Astronomy
• Principal Investigator: Ernesto Vieira Neto
• Grantee: Rafael Ribeiro de Sousa
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Engenharia (FEG). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Guaratinguetá. Guaratinguetá , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 11/08171-3 - Orbital dynamics of minor bodies, AP.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/09919-8 - A study of the self-gravitating planetesimal disk on Nice Model and the dynamical formation of the Kuiper Belt, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

For three centuries astronomers and mathematicians have studied the problem of the solar system stability. The high analytical complexity of this issue prevented some advances that could only be achieved with the advent of computers and current numerical techniques. The dynamic evolution of the solar system is classified as chaotic. But the long age of stability of the Solar System suggests that, despite the chaos, the system tends to avoid dynamic instabilities and search for conditions of stability. The Nice model deals with the dynamical evolution of the solar system from the formation of planets to the current settings and explains phenomena and settings found in astronomical observations. Furthermore, the Nice model achieved a stable configuration for the solar system for a long period of time. However, the Nice model treats only with the dynamics of the giant planets of the Solar System and the planetesimal disk. The purpose of this project is to include the main three inner planets of the solar system using the initial conditions of the Nice model and check the stability of this new dynamical system featuring its chaotic level. (AU)

Scientific publications

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RIBEIRO, RAFAEL DE SOUSA; MORBIDELLI, ALESSANDRO; RAYMOND, SEAN N.; IZIDORO, ANDRE; GOMES, RODNEY; VIEIRA NETO, ERNESTO. Dynamical evidence for an early giant planet instability. ICARUS, v. 339, MAR 15 2020. (16/24561-0, 15/15588-9, 16/19556-7, 17/09919-8, 16/12686-2)

DE SOUSA, RAFAEL RIBEIRO; GOMES, RODNEY; MORBIDELLI, ALESSANDRO; NETO, ERNESTO VIEIRA. Dynamical effects on the classical Kuiper belt during the excited-Neptune model. ICARUS, v. 334, p. 89-98, DEC 2019. (15/15588-9, 17/09919-8)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SOUSA, Rafael Ribeiro de. The instability in the dynamical evolution of the solar system: sonsiderations about the time of instability and formation of the Kuiper belt. 2019. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Engenharia. Guaratinguetá Guaratinguetá.