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Persistent Evidence of a Jovian Mass Solar Companion in the Oort Cloud
John J. Matese and Daniel P. WhitmireDepartment of PhysicsUniversity of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, 70504-4210 USAPages: 41 including 2 cover sheets, 39 text pages, 2 tables, 9 figuresSubmitted to the journal ICARUS on 15 April 2010.
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“Jovian Mass Solar Companion in the Oort Cloud”
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John J. MateseDepartment of PhysicsUniversity of Louisiana at LafayetteLafayette, LA, 70504-4210Tel: (337) 482 6697Fax: (337) 482 6699E-mail: matese@louisiana.edu2
Abstract:
We present an updated dynamical and statistical analysis of outer Oort cloudcometary evidence suggesting the sun has a wide-binary Jovian mass companion. The resultssupport a conjecture that there exists a companion of mass
≈
1
−
4 M
Jupiter
orbiting in theinnermost region of the outer Oort cloud. Our most restrictive prediction is that the orientationangles of the orbit normal in galactic coordinates are centered on Ω, the galactic longitude of the ascending node = 319
◦
and
i
, the galactic inclination = 103
◦
(or the opposite direction)with an uncertainty in the normal direction subtending
≈
2% of the sky. A Bayesian statisticalanalysis suggests that the probability of the companion hypothesis is comparable to or greaterthan the probability of the null hypothesis of a statistical fluke. Such a companion could alsohave produced the detached Kuiper Belt object Sedna. The putative companion could be easilydetected by the recently launched Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).
Key Words:
Comets, dynamics; Celestial mechanics; Kuiper Belt; Jovian planets; Planetary dynamics3
Persistent Evidence of a Jovian Mass Solar Companion in the Oort Cloud
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Sections
« prev | next »- 1. Introduction
- 2.1. Theory
- 2.2. Observational evidence for tidal dominance at the present epoch
- 2.3. Comparisons with recent modeling
- 3.1. Theory
- 3.2. Combined tidal and impulsive interaction
- 3.3. Weak impulsive effects on the discernable energy and spatial distributions
- 4.1. Inferring the orbit orientation of a putative bound perturber
- 4.2. IR observational limits on the companion’s mass and distance
- 4.3. Dynamical inferences of other perturber properties
- 4.4. A Monte Carlo test for the likelihood of the conjecture
- 4.5.1. Analysis of the 17th Catalogue alone
- 4.5.2. Separate analyses of the 11th and 17th−11th subsets
- 5. Summary and conclusions
- 8/92 (Pasadena:JPL), Figure III.C.1
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