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long-termintegrationsandstabilityofplanetaryorbitsinoursolarsystem
abstract
wepresenttheresultsofverylong-termnumericalintegrationsofplanetaryorbitalmotionsover109-yrtime-spansincludingallnineplanets.aquickinspectionofournumericaldatashowsthattheplanetarymotion,atleastinoursimpledynamicalmodel,seemstobequitestableevenoverthisverylongtime-span.acloserlookatthelowest-frequencyoscillationsusingalow-passfiltershowsusthepotentiallydiffusivecharacterofterrestrialplanetarymotion,especiallythatofmercury.thebehaviouroftheeccentricityofmercuryinourintegrationsisqualitativelysimilartotheresultsfromjacqueslaskar'ssecularperturbationtheory(e.g.emax~0.35over~±4gyr).however,therearenoapparentsecularincreasesofeccentricityorinclinationinanyorbitalelementsoftheplanets,whichmayberevealedbystilllonger-termnumericalintegrations.wehavealsoperformedacoupleoftrialintegrationsincludingmotionsoftheouterfiveplanetsoverthedurationof±5×1010yr.theresultindicatesthatthethreemajorresonancesintheneptune–plutosystemhavebeenmaintainedoverthe1011-yrtime-span.
1introduction
1.1definitionoftheproblem
thequestionofthestabilityofoursolarsystemhasbeendebatedoverseveralhundredyears,sincetheeraofnewton.theproblemhasattractedmanyfamousmathematiciansovertheyearsandhasplayedacentralroleinthedevelopmentofnon-lineardynamicsandchaostheory.however,wedonotyethaveadefiniteanswertothequestionofwhetheroursolarsystemisstableornot.thisispartlyaresultofthefactthatthedefinitionoftheterm‘stability’isvaguewhenitisusedinrelationtotheproblemofplanetarymotioninthesolarsystem.actuallyitisnoteasytogiveaclear,rigorousandphysicallymeaningfuldefinitionofthestabilityofoursolarsystem.
amongmanydefinitionsofstability,hereweadoptthehilldefinition(gladman1993):actuallythisisnotadefinitionofstability,butofinstability.wedefineasystemasbecomingunstablewhenacloseencounteroccurssomewhereinthesystem,startingfromacertaininitialconfiguration(chambers,wetherill&ito&&tanikawa1999).asystemisdefinedasexperiencingacloseencounterwhentwobodiesapproachoneanotherwithinanareaofthelargerhillradius.otherwisethesystemisdefinedasbeingstable.henceforwardwestatethatourplanetarysystemisdynamicallystableifnocloseencounterhappensduringtheageofoursolarsystem,about±5gyr.incidentally,thisdefinitionmaybereplacedbyoneinwhichanoccurrenceofanyorbitalcrossingbetweeneitherofapairofplanetstakesplace.thisisbecauseweknowfromexperiencethatanorbitalcrossingisverylikelytoleadtoacloseencounterinplanetaryandprotoplanetarysystems(yoshinaga,kokubo&&makino1999).ofcoursethisstatementcannotbesimplyappliedtosystemswithstableorbitalresonancessuchastheneptune–plutosystem.
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1.2previousstudiesandaimsofthisresearch
inadditiontothevaguenessoftheconceptofstability,theplanetsinoursolarsystemshowacharactertypicalofdynamicalchaos(sussman&&wisdom1988,1992).thecauseofthischaoticbehaviourisnowpartlyunderstoodasbeingaresultofresonanceoverlapping(murray&lecar,franklin&&holman2001).however,itwouldrequireintegratingoveranensembleofplanetarysystemsincludingallnineplanetsforaperiodcoveringseveral10gyrtothoroughlyunderstandthelong-termevolutionofplanetaryorbits,sincechaoticdynamicalsystemsarecharacterizedbytheirstrongdependenceoninitialconditions.
fromthatpointofview,manyofthepreviouslong-termnumericalintegrationsincludedonlytheouterfiveplanets(sussman&kinoshita&&nakai1996).thisisbecausetheorbitalperiodsoftheouterplanetsaresomuchlongerthanthoseoftheinnerfourplanetsthatitismucheasiertofollowthesystemforagivenintegrationperiod.atpresent,thelongestnumericalintegrationspublishedinjournalsarethoseofduncan&&lissauer(1998).althoughtheirmaintargetwastheeffectofpost-main-sequencesolarmasslossonthestabilityofplanetaryorbits,theyperformedmanyintegrationscoveringupto~1011yroftheorbitalmotionsofthefourjovianplanets.theinitialorbitalelementsandmassesofplanetsarethesameasthoseofoursolarsysteminduncan&&lissauer'spaper,buttheydecreasethemassofthesungraduallyintheirnumericalexperiments.thisisbecausetheyconsidertheeffectofpost-main-sequencesolarmasslossinthepaper.consequently,theyfoundthatthecrossingtime-scaleofplanetaryorbits,whichcanbeatypicalindicatoroftheinstabilitytime-scale,isquitesensitivetotherateofmassdecreaseofthesun.whenthemassofthesunisclosetoitspresentvalue,thejovianplanetsremainstableover1010yr,orperhapslonger.duncan&&lissaueralsoperformedfoursimilarexperimentsontheorbitalmotionofsevenplanets(venustoneptune),whichcoveraspanof~109yr.theirexperimentsonthesevenplanetsarenotyetcomprehensive,butitseemsthattheterrestrialplanetsalsoremainstableduringtheintegrationperiod,maintainingalmostregularoscillations.
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ontheotherhand,inhisaccuratesemi-analyticalsecularperturbationtheory(laskar1988),laskarfindsthatlargeandirregularvariationscanappearintheeccentricitiesandinclinationsoftheterrestrialplanets,especiallyofmercuryandmarsonatime-scaleofseveral109yr(laskar1996).theresultsoflaskar'ssecularperturbationtheoryshouldbeconfirmedandinvestigatedbyfullynumericalintegrations.
inthispaperwepresentpreliminaryresultsofsixlong-termnumericalintegrationsonallnineplanetaryorbits,coveringaspanofseveral109yr,andoftwootherintegrationscoveringaspanof±5×1010yr.thetotalelapsedtimeforallintegrationsismorethan5yr,usingseveraldedicatedpcsandworkstations.oneofthefundamentalconclusionsofourlong-termintegrationsisthatsolarsystemplanetarymotionseemstobestableintermsofthehillstabilitymentionedabove,atleastoveratime-spanof±4gyr.actually,inournumericalintegrationsthesystemwasfarmorestablethanwhatisdefinedbythehillstabilitycriterion:notonlydidnocloseencounterhappenduringtheintegrationperiod,butalsoalltheplanetaryorbitalelementshavebeenconfinedinanarrowregionbothintimeandfrequencydomain,thoughplanetarymotionsarestochastic.sincethepurposeofthispaperistoexhibitandoverviewtheresultsofourlong-termnumericalintegrations,weshowtypicalexamplefiguresasevidenceoftheverylong-termstabilityofsolarsystemplanetarymotion.forreaderswhohavemorespecificanddeeperinterestsinournumericalresults,wehavepreparedawebpage(access),whereweshowraworbitalelements,theirlow-passfilteredresults,variationofdelaunayelementsandangularmomentumdeficit,andresultsofoursimpletime–frequencyanalysisonallofourintegrations.
insection2webrieflyexplainourdynamicalmodel,numericalmethodandinitialconditionsusedinourintegrations.section3isdevotedtoadescriptionofthequickresultsofthenumericalintegrations.verylong-termstabilityofsolarsystemplanetarymotionisapparentbothinplanetarypositionsandorbitalelements.aroughestimationofnumericalerrorsisalsogiven.section4goesontoadiscussionofthelongest-termvariationofplanetaryorbitsusingalow-passfilterandincludesadiscussionofangularmomentumdeficit.insection5,wepresentasetofnumericalintegrationsfortheouterfiveplanetsthatspans±5×1010yr.insection6wealsodiscussthelong-termstabilityoftheplanetarymotionanditspossiblecause.
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2descriptionofthenumericalintegrations
(本部分涉及比较复杂的积分计算,作者君就不贴上来了,贴上来了起点也不一定能成功显示。)
2.3numericalmethod
weutilizeasecond-orderwisdom–holmansymplecticmapasourmainintegrationmethod(wisdom&kinoshita,yoshida&&nakai1991)withaspecialstart-upproceduretoreducethetruncationerrorofanglevariables,‘warmstart’(saha&&tremaine1992,1994).
thestepsizeforthenumericalintegrationsis8dthroughoutallintegrationsofthenineplanets(n±1,2,3),whichisabout111oftheorbitalperiodoftheinnermostplanet(mercury).asforthedeterminationofstepsize,wepartlyfollowthepreviousnumericalintegrationofallnineplanetsinsussman&&wisdom(1988,7.2d)andsaha&&tremaine(1994,22532d).weroundedthedecimalpartofthetheirstepsizesto8tomakethestepsizeamultipleof2inordertoreducetheaccumulationofround-offerrorinthecomputationprocesses.inrelationtothis,wisdom&&holman(1991)performednumericalintegrationsoftheouterfiveplanetaryorbitsusingthesymplecticmapwithastepsizeof400d,110.83oftheorbitalperiodofjupiter.theirresultseemstobeaccurateenough,whichpartlyjustifiesourmethodofdeterminingthestepsize.however,sincetheeccentricityofjupiter(~0.05)ismuchsmallerthanthatofmercury(~0.2),weneedsomecarewhenwecomparetheseintegrationssimplyintermsofstepsizes.
intheintegrationoftheouterfiveplanets(f±),wefixedthestepsizeat400d.
weadoptgauss'fandgfunctionsinthesymplecticmaptogetherwiththethird-orderhalleymethod(danby1992)asasolverforkeplerequations.thenumberofmaximumiterationswesetinhalley'smethodis15,buttheyneverreachedthemaximuminanyofourintegrations.
theintervalofthedataoutputis200000d(~547yr)forthecalculationsofallnineplanets(n±1,2,3),andabout8000000d(~21903yr)fortheintegrationoftheouterfiveplanets(f±).
althoughnooutputfilteringwasdonewhenthenumericalintegrationswereinprocess,weappliedalow-passfiltertotheraworbitaldataafterwehadcompletedallthecalculations.seesection4.1formoredetail.
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2.4errorestimation
2.4.1relativeerrorsintotalenergyandangularmomentum
accordingtooneofthebasicpropertiesofsymplecticintegrators,whichconservethephysicallyconservativequantitieswell(totalorbitalenergyandangularmomentum),ourlong-termnumericalintegrationsseemtohavebeenperformedwithverysmallerrors.theaveragedrelativeerrorsoftotalenergy(~10?9)andoftotalangularmomentum(~10?11)haveremainednearlyconstantthroughouttheintegrationperiod(fig.1).thespecialstartupprocedure,warmstart,wouldhavereducedtheaveragedrelativeerrorintotalenergybyaboutoneorderofmagnitudeormore.
relativenumericalerrorofthetotalangularmomentumδaa0andthetotalenergyδee0inournumericalintegrationsn±1,2,3,whereδeandδaaretheabsolutechangeofthetotalenergyandtotalangularmomentum,respectively,ande0anda0aretheirinitialvalues.thehorizontalunitisgyr.