对火星轨道变化问题的最后解释(第1/3页)
作者君在作品相关中其实已经解释过这个问题。
不过仍然有人质疑——“你说得太含糊了”,“火星轨道的变化比你想象要大得多!”
那好吧,既然作者君的简单解释不够有力,那咱们就看看严肃的东西,反正这本书写到现在,嚷嚷着本书bug一大堆,用初高中物理在书中挑刺的人也不少。
以下是文章内容:
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±5x1010yr.theresultindicatesthatthethreemajorresonancesintheneptune–plutosystemhavebeenmaintainedoverthe1011-yrtime-span.
1introduction
1.1definitionoftheproblem
thequestionofthestabilityofoursolarsystemhasbeendebatedoverseveralhundredyears,sincetheeraofnewton.theproblemhasattractedmanyfamousmathematiciansovertheyearsandhasplayedacentralroleinthedevelopmentofnon-lineardynamicsandchaostheory.however,wedonotyethaveadefiniteanswertothequestionofwhetheroursolarsystemisstableornot.thisispartlyaresultofthefactthatthedefinitionoftheterm‘stability’isvaguewhenitisusedinrelationtotheproblemofplanetarymotioninthesolarsystem.actuallyitisnoteasytogiveaclear,rigorousandphysicallymeaningfuldefinitionofthestabilityofoursolarsystem.
amongmanydefinitionsofstability,hereweadoptthehilldefinition(gladman1993):actuallythisisnotadefinitionofstability,butofinstability.wedefineasystemasbingunstablewhenacloseencounteroccurssomewhereinthesystem,startingfromacertaininitialconfiguration(chambers,wetherill&boss1996;ito&tanikawa1999).asystemisdefinedasexperiencingacloseencounterwhentwobodiesapproachoneanotherwithinanareaofthelargerhillradius.otherwisethesystemisdefinedasbeingstable.henceforwardwestatethatourplanetarysystemisdynamicallystableifnocloseencounterhappensduringtheageofoursolarsystem,about±5gyr.incidentally,thisdefinitionmaybereplacedbyoneinwhichanoccurrenceofanyorbitalcrossingbetweeneitherofapairofplanetstakesplace.thisisbecauseweknowfromexperiencethatanorbitalcrossingisverylikelytoleadtoacloseencounterinplanetaryandprotoplanetarysystems(yoshinaga,kokubo&makino1999).ofcoursethisstatementcannotbesimplyappliedtosystemswithstableorbitalresonancessuchastheneptune–plutosystem.
1.2previousstudiesandaimsofthisresearch
inadditiontothevaguenessoftheconceptofstability,theplanetsinoursolarsystemshowacharactertypicalofdynamicalchaos(sussman&wisdom1988,1992).thecauseofthischaoticbehaviourisnowpartlyunderstoodasbeingaresultofresonanceoverlapping(murray&holman1999;lecar,franklin&holman2001).however,itwouldrequireintegratingoveranensembleofplanetarysystemsincludingallnineplanetsforaperiodcoveringseveral10gyrtothoroughlyunderstandthelong-termevolutionofplanetaryorbits,sincechaoticdynamicalsystemsarecharacterizedbytheirstrongdependenceoninitialconditions.
fromthatpointofview,manyofthepreviouslong-termnumericalintegrationsincludedonlytheouterfiveplanets(sussman&wisdom1988;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.theirexperimentsonthesevenplanetsarenotyeprehensive,butitseemsthattheterrestrialplanetsalsoremainstableduringtheintegrationperiod,maintainingalmostregularoscillations.
ontheotherhand,inhisaccuratesemi-analyticalsecularperturbationtheory(laskar1988),laskarfindsthatlargeandirregularvariationscanappearintheeccentricitiesandinclinationsoftheterrestrialplanets,especiallyofmercuryandmarsonatime-scaleofseveral109yr(laskar1996).theresultsoflaskar'ssecularperturbationtheoryshouldbeconfirmedandinvestigatedbyfullynumericalintegrations.
inthispaperwepresentpreliminaryresultsofsixlong-termnumericalintegrationsonallnineplanetaryorbits,coveringaspanofseveral109yr,andoftwootherintegrationscoveringaspanof±5x1010yr.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±5x1010yr.insection6wealsodiscussthelong-termstabilityoftheplanetarymotionanditspossiblecause.
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&holman1991;kinoshita,yoshida&nakai1991)withaspecialstart-upproceduretoreducethetruncationerrorofanglevariables,‘warmstart’(saha&tremaine1992,1994).
thestepsizeforthenumericalintegrationsis8dthroughoutallintegrationsofthenineplanets(n±1,2,3),whichisabout1/11oftheorbitalperiodoftheinnermostplanet(mercury).asforthedeterminationofstepsize,wepartlyfollowthepreviousnumericalintegrationofallnineplanetsinsussman&wisdom(1988,7.2d)andsaha&tremaine(1994,225/32d).weroundedthedecimalpartofthetheirstepsizesto8tomakethestepsizeamultipleof2inordertoreducetheaccumulationofround-offerrorinthputationprocesses.inrelationtothis,wisdom&holman(1991)performednumericalintegrationsoftheouterfiveplanetaryorbitsusingthesymplecticmapwithastepsizeof400d,1/10.83oftheorbitalperiodofjupiter.theirresultseemstobeaccurateenough,whichpartlyjustifiesourmethodofdeterminingthestepsize.however,sincetheeccentricityofjupiter(~0.05)ismuchsmallerthanthatofmercury(~0.2),weneedsomecarewhenwparetheseintegrationssimplyintermsofstepsizes.
intheintegrationoftheouterfiveplanets(f±),wefixedthestepsizeat400d.
weadoptgauss'fandgfunctionsinthesymplecticmaptogetherwiththethird-orderhalleymethod(danby1992)asasolverforkeplerequations.thenumberofmaximumiterationswesetinhalley'smethodis15,buttheyneverreachedthemaximuminanyofourintegrations.
theintervalofthedataoutputis200000d(~547yr)forthecalculationsofallnineplanets(n±1,2,3),andabout8000000d(~21903yr)fortheintegrationoftheouterfiveplanets(f±).
althoughnooutputfilteringwasdonewhenthenumericalintegrationswereinprocess,weappliedalow-passfiltertotheraworbitaldataafterwehapletedallthecalculations.seesection4.1formoredetail.
2.4errorestimation
2.4.1relativeerrorsintotalenergyandangularmomentum
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