Secular Evolution of Rings around Rotating Triaxial Gravitating Bodiesстатья
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Аннотация:Abstract—The problem of the secular evolution of a thin ring around a rapidly rotating triaxial celestial body is formulated and solved. The technology for calculating secular perturbations is based on two formulas: the azimuthally averaged force field of the central body and the mutual energy of this body and a Gaussian ring. With instead of the usual perturbing function, a system of differential equations for the osculatingelements of the ring is obtained. The method is applied to dwarf planet Haumea with refined masses of the rocky core and the ice shell and the coefficients and of the potential’s zonal harmonics. According to new data, the ring around Haumea has a slight obliquity and must precess. It was established that the period of the reverse nodal precession of the Haumea’s ring (without regard to self-gravity) is days and the period of the forward of the apside line precession is . It is proven that the 3:1 orbital resonance for the particles of the Haumea’s ring is fulfilled only approximately and the averaging time of additional perturbations at a nonsharp resonance turned out to be an order of magnitude smaller than . This confirms the adequacy of the method.