Finding Planet Nine: apsidal anti-alignment Monte Carlo results

• Published in: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 462; no. 2; pp. 1972 - 1977
• Main Authors: de la Fuente Marcos, C., de la Fuente Marcos, R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Oxford University Press 21.10.2016
• Subjects: Asteroids; Astronomy; Clustering; Extreme values; Monte Carlo methods; Monte Carlo simulation; Orbits; Planets; Pluto (dwarf planet); Poles; methods: statistical; celestial mechanics; minor planets, asteroids: general; Oort Cloud; planets and satellites: general; planets and satellites: detection

The distribution of the orbital elements of the known extreme trans-Neptunian objects or ETNOs has been found to be statistically incompatible with that of an unperturbed asteroid population following heliocentric or, better, barycentric orbits. Such trends, if confirmed by future discoveries of ETN...