Migration of Distant Trans-Neptunian Objects into Near-Neptunian Orbits with Large Eccentricities
摘要
On the basis of models of the trans-Neptunian disk, which take into account the gravitational interaction of planetesimals, we consider the origin of near-Neptunian objects with perihelion distances of 28 < q < 35.5 AU and semimajor axes 60 < a < 1000 AU, which are the source of observed comets of the Jupiter family. It is shown that the majority of objects come to the near-Neptunian region from the distant trans-Neptunian region, defined in this work by orbits with q > 60 AU, a < 1000 AU or 40 < q < 60 AU, 200 < a < 1000 AU. This result has a crucial difference from the previously considered models, which propose as a source of near-Neptunian objects and comets of the Jupiter family the so-called scattered disk, defined by orbits with q < 60 AU, 50 < a < 200 AU. Distant trans-Neptunian objects are a natural result of the dynamical evolution of the outer planetesimal disk taking into account its self-gravity, and the gravitational interaction of these objects creates a flux of bodies into the near-Neptunian region.