Yarkovsky Effect and the Dynamics of the Solar System

Miroslav Broz, Institute of Astronomy, Charles University, V Holesovickach 2, 180 00 Prague, Czech Republic, e-mail: miroslav.broz@email.cz

supervisor of my PhD thesis was David Vokrouhlicky, e-mail: vokrouhl@mbox.cesnet.cz

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News / History

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Results / Images

Links

PhD Thesis

Publications
my ADS entry and short CV
Meteority, planetky a tepelne efekty [article, in Czech]

astorb info and Minor planets ephemerides (with GSC maps)
Numerical proper elements catalogue (prop_fmft.syn)
ls -lR tmp/

News / History

Oct 25th 2010: Synthetic proper elements of Hildas and Trojans.
Oct 21st 2008: A presentation from the GA 2009 meeting: On the dynamics of Trojan and outer Main Belt resonant families.
Oct 21st 2008: A presentation from the DPS 2008 meeting: Resonant Asteroid Families - a Wealthy Source of Information on Planetary Migration.
Jul 31st 2008: A small computation cluster was installed and started: http://hilda.troja.mff.cuni.cz.
Jun 23rd 2008: Supplementary material for the article "Asteroid families in the first order resonances with Jupiter" (submitted to MNRAS): List of asteroids in the J2/1 and in the J3/2.
May 1st 2008: Presentation from the DDA 2008 meeting: Asteroid Clusters in Major Mean Motion Resonances with Jupiter.
Apr 20th 2007: Presentation from the EGU 2007 meeting: The thermal forces and torques changing the orbits and spins of small asteroids.
Oct 13th 2006: Presentation from the DPS 2006 meeting: The Long-Term Evolution of J2/1, J3/2 and J4/3 Resonant Asteroids During Planetary Migration and Beyond.
Oct 5th 2006: Images and animations from the seminar of the Astronomical Institute: "Lost planet" Pluto (about the dynamics of the Kuiper belt).
May 25th 2006: Images and animations from the seminar of the Department of Geophysics: Formation of planets - restriction inferred from observations and dynamics of small Solar System bodies.
Apr 20th 2006: The PhD Thesis Yarkovsky effect and the dynamics of the Solar System was published on this web site.
Oct 5th 2005: Images and animations from the seminar of the Astronomical Institute: Hot brazilian news about the Yarkovsky and YORP effect.
Aug 17th 2005: Review talk (with animations) and two posters presented at IAUS 229 - Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2005:
- Non-gravitational forces acting on small bodies,
- ``Elusive'' Zhongguos and Griquas - long-lived asteroids inside the J2/1 resonance [PDF],
- Plausible constraint on Golevka's regolith from an accurate Yarkovsky/YORP model [PDF].
Nov 10th 2004: Observational proposal Astrometry of single-apparition asteroids possibly residing in the 2:1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter.
Nov 10th 2004: Our contribution to the proceedings of the IAU Colloquium No. 197 The population of asteroids in the 2:1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter revised [PDF].
Sep 6th 2004: Updated List of asteroids in the 2:1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter.
Sep 6th 2004: Talk on J2/1 resonance presented at the IAU Colloquium No. 197, Belgrade, Serbia, August 31 - September 4 2004 Yarkovsky-driven origin of the unstable population of asteroids in the 2:1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter.
Apr 23rd 2004: Talk on J2/1 resonance presented at the 2004 DDA Meeting in Cannes: Yarkovsky-driven origin of the unstable population of asteroids in the 2:1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter.
Mar 17th 2004: Images from the seminar of Astronomical Institute: Long-term orbital evolution of selected asteroid families.
Sep 30th 2003: A new simulations concerning the population in the J2/1 resonance.
Aug 6th 2002: Further update of SWIFT-RMVSY - mainly improved documentation and (i386, src) RPM packages.
Aug 6th 2002: Talks and posters presented @ ACM 2002 meeting: (i) Yarkovsky Footprints in the Eos Family, (ii) A Connection of the 2/1 Resonance Asteroids with the Themis Family?, (iii) A Faster Version of the SWIFT-MVS Integrator and Implementation of the Yarkovsky Force. See Download section.
Jul 23rd 2002: Minor update of the swift-rmvsy-*.tar.gz package.
Apr 9th 2002: Yarkovsky driven capture inside the 2:1 resonance? - partial results of integrations of Themis-like asteroids.
Feb 12th 2002: Eos and J7/3 resonance - analysis of integrations of Eos family asteroids crossing the J7/3 mean motion resonance.
Jan 16th 2002: Eos family and "triangular plots"
Jan 7th 2002: Eos and J9/4 resonance - preliminary results of integrations of Eos family members crossing the 9/4 resonance with Jupiter.
Jan 7th 2002: URL of ACM 2002, to be held in Berlin, Jul 29th - Aug 2nd, 2002
Dec 11th 2001: New 2nd order symplectic integrator SWIFT_MVS2FY and parallel versions of other integrators. See also documentation, results of several tests and download.
Jul 4th 2001: New results concerning asteroid families: spectroscopic observations in the Eos region.
Jun 25th 2001: Poster Long-term Dynamical Diffusion in Asteroid Families via the Yarkovsky Effect, presented at Asteroids 2001 (Palermo, Jun 11-16, 2001) and CELMEC III (Rome, Jun 18-22, 2001) conferences, is now available in Download section.
May 2nd 2001: Slides presented at the seminar of Astronomical institute MFF UK - Dynamical processes in asteroidal families and other applications of Yarkovsky effect.
Mar 16th 2001: Additional results of asteroid-families integrations.
Jan 19th 2001: Campaign for Photometric observation of (2953) Vysheslavia in April 2001
Astrometric observations of 1992 RF5, 1998 DX1 and 1989 TT3 during the year 2000

Download / Publications

We offer downloads of the following publications and programs. All documents are in the gzipped postscript or PDF format.

Yarkovsky effect and the dynamics of the Solar System. M. Broz - PhD Thesis, Charles Univ., 2006. [ http://sirrah.troja.mff.cuni.cz/yarko-site/phdth/ ]
swift_rmvsy documentation and download [swift-*.tar.gz, 250 kB]
Non-gravitational forces acting on small bodies. M. Broz, D. Vokrouhlicky, W.F. Bottke, D. Nesvorny, A. Morbidelli, D. Capek - in: Asteroids, Comets and Meteors, Eds. D. Lazzaro, S. Ferraz-Mello and J. Fernandez, Cambridge University Press, p. 351. [ iaus229_nongravs_review_broz.pdf, 4.3 MB; iaus229_nongravs_review_broz.ps.gz, 1.7 MB ]
Plausible constraint on Golevka's regolith from an accurate Yarkovsky/YORP model. D. Capek, D. Vokrouhlicky - Poster presented at IAUS 229 - ACM 2005 (Buzios, Aug 7-12, 2005) [ acm2005_golevka_capek.pdf, 2.3 MB ]
Non-gravitational forces acting on small bodies. M. Broz, D. Vokrouhlicky, A. Morbidelli, D. Nesvorny, W.F. Bottke, F. Roig, D. Capek - Review talk presented at IAUS 229 - ACM 2005 (Buzios, Aug 7-12, 2005) [ acm2005_broz.pdf, 3.2 MB; acm2005_broz.ps.gz, 2.9 MB; preview in PNG and AVI, 107 MB ]
``Elusive'' Zhongguos and Griquas - long-lived asteroids inside the J2/1 resonance. M. Broz, D. Vokrouhlicky, F. Roig, D. Nesvorny, W.F. Bottke, A. Morbidelli - Poster presented at IAUS 229 - ACM 2005 (Buzios, Aug 7-12, 2005) [ iaus229_poster_zhongguos_griquas_broz.ps.gz, 2.0 MB ]
Yarkovsky origin of the unstable asteroids in the 2/1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter. M. Broz, D. Vokrouhlicky, F. Roig, D. Nesvorny, W.F. Bottke, A. Morbidelli - MNRAS, 359, 1437-1455, 2005. [ mnr8995_1437-1455_offprint_broz_etal_2005_r21_resonance.pdf, 1.5 MB&mbsp;]
The population of asteroids in the 2:1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter revised. M. Broz, D. Vokrouhlicky, F. Roig, D. Nesvorny, W.F. Bottke, A. Morbidelli - in Dynamics of Populations of Planetary Systems, Proceedings IAU Colloquium No. 197, 2004, Z. Knezevic and A. Milani, eds. [ iauc197_r21_broz.pdf, 220 kB ]
Yarkovsky-driven origin of the unstable population of asteroids in the 2:1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter. M. Broz, D. Vokrouhlicky, A. Morbidelli, D. Nesvorny, F. Roig - Talk presented at DDA 2004 (Cannes, Apr 19-23, 2004) [dda2004_r21.ps.gz, 590 kB; preview in PNG, animation dda2004_distmap22.avi in MJPEG AVI format, 13 MB]
Yarkovsky footprints in the Eos family. D. Vokrouhlicky, M. Broz, A. Morbidelli, W. F. Bottke, D. Nesvorny, D. Lazzaro, A. Rivkin - Talk presented at ACM 2002 (Berlin, Jul 29-Aug 3, 2002) [acm02_eos.ps.gz, 1.1 MB; eos-ae_anim.gif, 4.5 MB; acm02_eos.ppt, 1.9 MB; eos-ae_anim.avi.gz, 2.9 MB]
A Connection of the 2/1 Resonance Asteroids with the Themis Family? M. Broz, D. Vokrouhlicky, A. Morbidelli, D. Nesvorny, F. Roig - Poster presented at ACM 2002 (Berlin, Jul 29-Aug 3, 2002) [acm02_r21.ps.gz, 670 kB]
A Faster Version of the SWIFT-MVS Integrator and Implementation of the Yarkovsky Force. M. Broz - Poster presented at ACM 2002 (Berlin, Jul 29-Aug 3, 2002) [acm02_mvs2.ps.gz, 413 kB]
Dynamical Spreading of Asteroid Families by the Yarkovsky Effect. W. F. Bottke, D. Vokrouhlicky, M. Broz, D. Nesvorny, A. Morbidelli - Science 294, 1693-1696 (2001) [preprint Koronis_Science.pdf, 3.0 MB]
Long-term Dynamical Diffusion in Asteroid Families via the Yarkovsky Effect. D. Vokrouhlicky, M. Broz, A. Morbidelli, D. Nesvorny, W. F. Bottke - Poster presented at Asteroids 2001 (Palermo, Jun 11-16, 2001) and CELMEC III (Rome, Jun 18-22, 2001) [palermo01.ps.gz, 1.4 MB]
Dynamical processes in asteroidal families and other applications of Yarkovsky effect. M. Broz - Slides presented at the seminar of Institute of Astronomy MFF UK, May 2nd 2001 [ preview | semau_01.tar.gz, 4.4 MB]
Yarkovsky-Driven Leakage of Koronis Family Members. D. Vokrouhlicky, M. Broz, P. Farinella, Z. Knezevic - Icarus 150, 78-93 (2001). [ms7780.ps.gz, 997 kB]
The peculiar orbit of Vysheslavia: further hints for its Yarkovsky driven origin? M. Broz, D. Vokrouhlicky - submitted to Proceedings of US - European Workshop on Celestial Mechanics, Poznan, Jul 3-7 2000 [poznan00_proc.tar.gz, 604 kB]
The peculiar orbit of Vysheslavia: further hints for its Yarkovsky driven origin? D. Vokrouhlicky, M. Broz - Talk presented at US - European Workshop on Celestial Mechanics, Poznan, Jul 3-7 2000 [poznan00.ps.gz, 1.2 MB]
Evolution of Yarkovsky driven orbits of meteoroids. M. Broz, D. Vokrouhlicky - Talk presented at NATO ASI - The Restless Universe, Blair Atholl, Jul 23-Aug 5 2000 [natoasi00.ps.gz, 1.0 MB]
Yarkovsky vs. asteroid families: the case of Vysheslavia. D. Vokrouhlicky - Slides presented at the seminar of Institute of Astronomy MFF UK, Apr 19th 2000 [semau_2953.ps.gz, 1.4 MB]
Capture of Yarkovsky-driven Asteroid Orbits into Higher-order Main-belt resonances. M. Broz, D. Vokrouhlicky, P. Farinella, W. F. Bottke - Talk presented at 31st Annual Meeting of the AAS DPS, Padova, Oct 10-15 1999, BAAS, 31, 1111 [dps99_24-04.ps.gz, 332 kB]
Yarkovsky driven Leakage of Koronis Family Members and the Case of 2953 Vysheslavia. D. Vokrouhlicky, M. Broz, P. Farinella, Z. Knezevic - Talk presented at 31st Annual Meeting of the AAS DPS, Padova, Oct 10-15 1999, BAAS, 31, 1111. [dps99_vysheslavia.ps.gz, 292 kB]
Orbital evolution of asteroid fragments due to planet gravitation and thermal effects. M. Broz - diploma thesis [in Czech], Charles Univeristy, Prague, 1999. [broz_dt.ps.gz, 3.3 MB]
An improved model of the seasonal Yarkovsky force for regolith-covered asteroid fragments. D. Vokrouhlicky, M. Broz - Astron. Astrophys. 350, 1079-1084 (1999). [twolayer.ps.gz, 176 kB]
Yarkovsky effects as a source of mobility for asteroid fragments. M. Broz, D. Vokrouhlicky - Poster presented at conferences IAU coll. 173 Evolution and Source Regions of Asteroids and Comets, Tatranska Lomnica, Aug 24-26 1998 and JENAM 98, Prague, Sep 9-12 1998. [iau173_poster.ps.gz, 523 kB]