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Journal article

A statistical approach to investigate the formation of the solar system

  • 1. Laboratory of Self-Organization System Modeling, United Institute of Informatics Problems, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Surganov Street 6, 220012 Minsk (Belarus)

Description

A model describing a gravitational effect into a forming gravitating and rotating cosmological body based on the statistical theory has been proposed. In this model, the forming cosmological bodies are shown to have fuzzy contours and are represented by spheroidal forms. The proposed theory starts from the conception for forming a spheroidal body from a gas-dust protoplanetary nebula. The distribution functions together with the mass densities and gravitational field potentials for an immovable spheroidal body as well as rotating one have been derived. This work also considers problem of gravitational condensation of a gas-dust protoplanetary cloud with a view to protoplanet formation in its own gravitational field. It is known a protoplanetary system behavior can be described by Jeans' equation in partial derivations relative to a distribution function. The paper derives a more general evolutional equation which generalizes the Jeans' equation. Since the determination of gravitational potential (and mass density) is the main problem of statistical dynamics for protoplanetary system, then the work shows how this task of protoplanetary dynamics can be solved on the basis of the proposed spheroidal body theory. Within the framework of this theory, the distribution function of a specific angular momentum of a rotating uniformly spheroidal body has been found. As the specific angular momentums are averaged during a conglomeration process, the specific angular momentum of a protoplanet for a planetary system is found in this paper. The proposed theory is also applied to investigate formation of planets in our solar system. As a result, a new law for the solar system planetary distances (which generalizes the well-known Schmidt law) is derived in this paper. It has been shown that the new law gives a very good estimation of observable planetary distances in the solar system.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2008.06.014

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.chaos.2008.06.014;
PII
S0960-0779(08)00278-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
Journal Volume
41
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 1481-1500
ISSN
0960-0779

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41014469
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
ANGULAR MOMENTUM; COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EQUATIONS; FUZZY LOGIC; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; NEBULAE; SOLAR SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODELS
Descriptors DEC
FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL MODELS

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Copyright (c) 2008 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.