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On the Erigone family and the z 2 secular resonance

Abstract

The Erigone family is a C-type group in the inner main belt. Its age has been estimated by several researchers to be less then 300 Myr, so it is a relatively young cluster. Yarko-YORP Monte Carlo methods to study the chronology of the Erigone family confirm results obtained by other groups. The Erigone family, however, is also characterized by its interaction with the z 2 secular resonance. While less than 15 per cent of its members are currently in librating states of this resonance, the number of objects, members of the dynamical group, in resonant states is high enough to allow us to use the study of dynamics inside the z 2 resonance to set constraints on the family age. Like the ν 6 and z 1 secular resonances, the z 2 resonance is characterized by one stable equilibrium point at σ = 180 • in the z 2 resonance plane (σ, dσ dt), where σ is the resonant angle of the z 2 resonance. Diffusion in this plane occurs on timescales of 12 Myr, which sets a lower limit on the Erigone family age. Finally, the minimum time needed to reach a steady-state population of z 2 librators is about 90 Myr, which allows us to impose another, independent constraint on the group age.
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hal-02481147 , version 1 (17-02-2020)

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V Carruba, Safwan Aljbaae, O C Winter. On the Erigone family and the z 2 secular resonance. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016, 455, pp.2279 - 2288. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stv2430⟩. ⟨hal-02481147⟩
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