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对火星轨道变化问题的最后解释（第2页）

ThevariationofeccentricitiesandorbitalinclinationsfortheinnerfourplanetsintheinitialandfinalpartoftheintegrationN+1isshowninFig.4.Asexpected，thecharacterofthevariationofplanetaryorbitalelementsdoesnotdiffersignificantlybetweentheinitialandfinalpartofeachintegration，atleastforVenus，EarthandMars.TheelementsofMercury，especiallyitseccentricity，seemtochangetoasignificantextent.Thisispartlybecausetheorbitaltime-scaleoftheplanetistheshortestofalltheplanets，whichleadstoamorerapidorbitalevolutionthanotherplanets;theinnermostplanetmaybenearesttoinstability.ThisresultappearstobeinsomeagreementwithLaskars（1994，1996）expectationsthatlargeandirregularvariationsappearintheeccentricitiesandinclinationsofMercuryonatime-scaleofseveral109yr.However，theeffectofthepossibleinstabilityoftheorbitofMercurymaynotfatallyaffecttheglobalstabilityofthewholeplanetarysystemowingtothesmallmassofMercury.Wewillmentionbrieflythelong-termorbitalevolutionofMercurylaterinSection4usinglow-passfilteredorbitalelements.

Theorbitalmotionoftheouterfiveplanetsseemsrigorouslystableandquiteregularoverthistime-span（seealsoSection5）.

3.2Time–frequencymaps

Althoughtheplanetarymotionexhibitsverylong-termstabilitydefinedasthenon-existenceofcloseencounterevents，thechaoticnatureofplanetarydynamicscanchangetheoscillatoryperiodandamplitudeofplanetaryorbitalmotiongraduallyoversuchlongtime-spans.Evensuchslightfluctuationsoforbitalvariationinthefrequencydomain，particularlyinthecaseofEarth，canpotentiallyhaveasignificanteffectonitssurfaceclimatesystemthroughsolarinsolationvariation（cf.Berger1988）.

Togiveanoverviewofthelong-termchangeinperiodicityinplanetaryorbitalmotion，weperformedmanyfastFouriertransformations（FFTs）alongthetimeaxis，andsuperposedtheresultingperiodgramstodrawtwo-dimensionaltime–frequencymaps.Thespecificapproachtodrawingthesetime–frequencymapsinthispaperisverysimple–muchsimplerthanthewaveletanalysisorLaskars（1990，1993）frequencyanalysis.

Dividethelow-passfilteredorbitaldataintomanyfragmentsofthesamelength.Thelengthofeachdatasegmentshouldbeamultipleof2inordertoapplytheFFT.

Eachfragmentofthedatahasalargeoverlappingpart:forexample，whentheithdatabeginsfromt=tiandendsatt=ti+T，thenextdatasegmentrangesfromti+δT≤ti+δT+T，whereδT?T.WecontinuethisdivisionuntilwereachacertainnumberNbywhichtn+Treachesthetotalintegrationlength.

WeapplyanFFTtoeachofthedatafragments，andobtainnfrequencydiagrams.

Ineachfrequencydiagramobtainedabove，thestrengthofperiodicitycanbereplacedbyagrey-scale（orcolour）chart.

Weperformthereplacement，andconnectallthegrey-scale（orcolour）chartsintoonegraphforeachintegration.Thehorizontalaxisofthesenewgraphsshouldbethetime，i.e.thestartingtimesofeachfragmentofdata（ti，wherei=1，…，n）.Theverticalaxisrepresentstheperiod（orfrequency）oftheoscillationoforbitalelements.

WehaveadoptedanFFTbecauseofitsoverwhelmingspeed，sincetheamountofnumericaldatatobedecomposedintofrequencycomponentsisterriblyhuge（severaltensofGbytes）.

Atypicalexampleofthetime–frequencymapcreatedbytheaboveproceduresisshowninagrey-scalediagramasFig.5，whichshowsthevariationofperiodicityintheeccentricityandinclinationofEarthinN+2integration.InFig.5，thedarkareashowsthatatthetimeindicatedbythevalueontheabscissa，theperiodicityindicatedbytheordinateisstrongerthaninthelighterareaaroundit.WecanrecognizefromthismapthattheperiodicityoftheeccentricityandinclinationofEarthonlychangesslightlyovertheentireperiodcoveredbytheN+2integration.Thisnearlyregulartrendisqualitativelythesameinotherintegrationsandforotherplanets，althoughtypicalfrequenciesdifferplanetbyplanetandelementbyelement.

4.2Long-termexchangeoforbitalenergyandangularmomentum

Wecalculateverylong-periodicvariationandexchangeofplanetaryorbitalenergyandangularmomentumusingfilteredDelaunayelementsL，G，H.GandHareequivalenttotheplanetaryorbitalangularmomentumanditsverticalcomponentperunitmass.LisrelatedtotheplanetaryorbitalenergyEperunitmassasE=?μ22L2.Ifthesystemiscompletelylinear，theorbitalenergyandtheangularmomentumineachfrequencybinmustbeconstant.Non-linearityintheplanetarysystemcancauseanexchangeofenergyandangularmomentuminthefrequencydomain.Theamplitudeofthelowest-frequencyoscillationshouldincreaseifthesystemisunstableandbreaksdowngradually.However，suchasymptomofinstabilityisnotprominentinourlong-termintegrations.

InFig.7，thetotalorbitalenergyandangularmomentumofthefourinnerplanetsandallnineplanetsareshownforintegrationN+2.Theupperthreepanelsshowthelong-periodicvariationoftotalenergy（denotedasE-E0），totalangularmomentum（G-G0），andtheverticalcomponent（H-H0）oftheinnerfourplanetscalculatedfromthelow-passfilteredDelaunayelements.E0，G0，H0denotetheinitialvaluesofeachquantity.Theabsolutedifferencefromtheinitialvaluesisplottedinthepanels.ThelowerthreepanelsineachfigureshowE-E0，G-G0andH-H0ofthetotalofnineplanets.Thefluctuationshowninthelowerpanelsisvirtuallyentirelyaresultofthemassivejovianplanets.

Comparingthevariationsofenergyandangularmomentumoftheinnerfourplanetsandallnineplanets，itisapparentthattheamplitudesofthoseoftheinnerplanetsaremuchsmallerthanthoseofallnineplanets:theamplitudesoftheouterfiveplanetsaremuchlargerthanthoseoftheinnerplanets.Thisdoesnotmeanthattheinnerterrestrialplanetarysubsystemismorestablethantheouterone:thisissimplyaresultoftherelativesmallnessofthemassesofthefourterrestrialplanetscomparedwiththoseoftheouterjovianplanets.Anotherthingwenoticeisthattheinnerplanetarysubsystemmaybecomeunstablemorerapidlythantheouteronebecauseofitsshorterorbitaltime-scales.Thiscanbeseeninthepanelsdenotedasinner4inFig.7wherethelonger-periodicandirregularoscillationsaremoreapparentthaninthepanelsdenotedastotal9.Actually，thefluctuationsintheinner4panelsaretoalargeextentasaresultoftheorbitalvariationoftheMercury.However，wecannotneglectthecontributionfromotherterrestrialplanets，aswewillseeinsubsequentsections.

4.4Long-termcouplingofseveralneighbouringplanetpairs

Letusseesomeindividualvariationsofplanetaryorbitalenergyandangularmomentumexpressedbythelow-passfilteredDelaunayelements.Figs10and11showlong-termevolutionoftheorbitalenergyofeachplanetandtheangularmomentuminN+1andN?2integrations.Wenoticethatsomeplanetsformapparentpairsintermsoforbitalenergyandangularmomentumexchange.Inparticular，VenusandEarthmakeatypicalpair.Inthefigures，theyshownegativecorrelationsinexchangeofenergyandpositivecorrelationsinexchangeofangularmomentuThenegativecorrelationinexchangeoforbitalenergymeansthatthetwoplanetsformacloseddynamicalsystemintermsoftheorbitalenergy.Thepositivecorrelationinexchangeofangularmomentummeansthatthetwoplanetsaresimultaneouslyundercertainlong-termperturbations.CandidatesforperturbersareJupiterandSaturn.AlsoinFig.11，wecanseethatMarsshowsapositivecorrelationintheangularmomentumvariationtotheVenus–EarthsysteMercuryexhibitscertainnegativecorrelationsintheangularmomentumversustheVenus–Earthsystem，whichseemstobeareactioncausedbytheconservationofangularmomentumintheterrestrialplanetarysubsyste

ItisnotclearatthemomentwhytheVenus–Earthpairexhibitsanegativecorrelationinenergyexchangeandapositivecorrelationinangularmomentumexchange.Wemaypossiblyexplainthisthroughobservingthegeneralfactthattherearenoseculartermsinplanetarysemimajoraxesuptosecond-orderperturbationtheories（cf.Brouwer&Clemence1961;Boccaletti&Pucacco1998）.Thismeansthattheplanetaryorbitalenergy（whichisdirectlyrelatedtothesemimajoraxisa）mightbemuchlessaffectedbyperturbingplanetsthanistheangularmomentumexchange（whichrelatestoe）.Hence，theeccentricitiesofVenusandEarthcanbedisturbedeasilybyJupiterandSaturn，whichresultsinapositivecorrelationintheangularmomentumexchange.Ontheotherhand，thesemimajoraxesofVenusandEartharelesslikelytobedisturbedbythejovianplanets.ThustheenergyexchangemaybelimitedonlywithintheVenus–Earthpair，whichresultsinanegativecorrelationintheexchangeoforbitalenergyinthepair.

Asfortheouterjovianplanetarysubsystem，Jupiter–SaturnandUranus–Neptuneseemtomakedynamicalpairs.However，thestrengthoftheircouplingisnotasstrongcomparedwiththatoftheVenus–Earthpair.

5±5×1010-yrintegrationsofouterplanetaryorbits

Sincethejovianplanetarymassesaremuchlargerthantheterrestrialplanetarymasses，wetreatthejovianplanetarysystemasanindependentplanetarysystemintermsofthestudyofitsdynamicalstability.Hence，weaddedacoupleoftrialintegrationsthatspan±5×1010yr，includingonlytheouterfiveplanets（thefourjovianplanetsplusPluto）.Theresultsexhibittherigorousstabilityoftheouterplanetarysystemoverthislongtime-span.Orbitalconfigurations（Fig.12），andvariationofeccentricitiesandinclinations（Fig.13）showthisverylong-termstabilityoftheouterfiveplanetsinboththetimeandthefrequencydomains.Althoughwedonotshowmapshere，thetypicalfrequencyoftheorbitaloscillationofPlutoandtheotherouterplanetsisalmostconstantduringtheseverylong-termintegrationperiods，whichisdemonstratedinthetime–frequencymapsonourwebpage.

Inthesetwointegrations，therelativenumericalerrorinthetotalenergywas～10?6andthatofthetotalangularmomentumwas～10?10.

5.1ResonancesintheNeptune–Plutosystem

Kinoshita&Nakai（1996）integratedtheouterfiveplanetaryorbitsover±5.5×109yr.TheyfoundthatfourmajorresonancesbetweenNeptuneandPlutoaremaintainedduringthewholeintegrationperiod，andthattheresonancesmaybethemaincausesofthestabilityoftheorbitofPluto.Themajorfourresonancesfoundinpreviousresearchareasfollows.Inthefollowingdescription，λdenotesthemeanlongitude，Ωisthelongitudeoftheascendingnodeand?isthelongitudeofperihelion.SubscriptsPandNdenotePlutoandNeptune.

MeanmotionresonancebetweenNeptuneandPluto（3:2）.Thecriticalargumentθ1=3λP?2λN??Plibratesaround180°withanamplitudeofabout80°andalibrationperiodofabout2×104yr.

TheargumentofperihelionofPlutoωP=θ2=?P?ΩPlibratesaround90°withaperiodofabout3.8×106yr.ThedominantperiodicvariationsoftheeccentricityandinclinationofPlutoaresynchronizedwiththelibrationofitsargumentofperihelion.ThisisanticipatedinthesecularperturbationtheoryconstructedbyKozai（1962）.

ThelongitudeofthenodeofPlutoreferredtothelongitudeofthenodeofNeptune，θ3=ΩP?ΩN，circulatesandtheperiodofthiscirculationisequaltotheperiodofθ2libration.Whenθ3becomeszero，i.e.thelongitudesofascendingnodesofNeptuneandPlutooverlap，theinclinationofPlutobecomesmaximum，theeccentricitybecomesminimumandtheargumentofperihelionbecomes90°.Whenθ3becomes180°，theinclinationofPlutobecomesminimum，theeccentricitybecomesmaximumandtheargumentofperihelionbecomes90°again.Williams&Benson（1971）anticipatedthistypeofresonance，laterconfirmedbyMilani，Nobili&Carpino（1989）.

Anargumentθ4=?P??N+3（ΩP?ΩN）libratesaround180°withalongperiod，～5.7×108yr.

Inournumericalintegrations，theresonances（i）–（iii）arewellmaintained，andvariationofthecriticalargumentsθ1，θ2，θ3remainsimilarduringthewholeintegrationperiod（Figs14–16）.However，thefourthresonance（iv）appearstobedifferent:thecriticalargumentθ4alternateslibrationandcirculationovera1010-yrtime-scale（Fig.17）.ThisisaninterestingfactthatKinoshita&Nakais（1995，1996）shorterintegrationswerenotabletodisclose.

6Discussion

Whatkindofdynamicalmechanismmaintainsthislong-termstabilityoftheplanetarysystem?Wecanimmediatelythinkoftwomajorfeaturesthatmayberesponsibleforthelong-termstability.First，thereseemtobenosignificantlower-orderresonances（meanmotionandsecular）betweenanypairamongthenineplanets.JupiterandSaturnareclosetoa5:2meanmotionresonance（thefamous‘greatinequality’），butnotjustintheresonancezone.Higher-orderresonancesmaycausethechaoticnatureoftheplanetarydynamicalmotion，buttheyarenotsostrongastodestroythestableplanetarymotionwithinthelifetimeoftherealSolarsysteThesecondfeature，whichwethinkismoreimportantforthelong-termstabilityofourplanetarysystem，isthedifferenceindynamicaldistancebetweenterrestrialandjovianplanetarysubsystems（Ito&Tanikawa1999，2001）.WhenwemeasureplanetaryseparationsbythemutualHillradii（R_），separationsamongterrestrialplanetsaregreaterthan26RH，whereasthoseamongjovianplanetsarelessthan14RH.Thisdifferenceisdirectlyrelatedtothedifferencebetweendynamicalfeaturesofterrestrialandjovianplanets.Terrestrialplanetshavesmallermasses，shorterorbitalperiodsandwiderdynamicalseparation.Theyarestronglyperturbedbyjovianplanetsthathavelargermasses，longerorbitalperiodsandnarrowerdynamicalseparation.Jovianplanetsarenotperturbedbyanyothermassivebodies.

Thepresentterrestrialplanetarysystemisstillbeingdisturbedbythemassivejovianplanets.However，thewideseparationandmutualinteractionamongtheterrestrialplanetsrendersthedisturbanceineffective;thedegreeofdisturbancebyjovianplanetsisO（eJ）（orderofmagnitudeoftheeccentricityofJupiter），sincethedisturbancecausedbyjovianplanetsisaforcedoscillationhavinganamplitudeofO（eJ）.Heighteningofeccentricity，forexampleO（eJ）～0.05，isfarfromsufficienttoprovokeinstabilityintheterrestrialplanetshavingsuchawideseparationas26RH.Thusweassumethatthepresentwidedynamicalseparationamongterrestrialplanets（>26RH）isprobablyoneofthemostsignificantconditionsformaintainingthestabilityoftheplanetarysystemovera109-yrtime-span.Ourdetailedanalysisoftherelationshipbetweendynamicaldistancebetweenplanetsandtheinstabilitytime-scaleofSolarsystemplanetarymotionisnowon-going.

AlthoughournumericalintegrationsspanthelifetimeoftheSolarsystem，thenumberofintegrationsisfarfromsufficienttofilltheinitialphasespace.Itisnecessarytoperformmoreandmorenumericalintegrationstoconfirmandexamineindetailthelong-termstabilityofourplanetarydynamics.

——以上文段引自Ito，T.&Tanikawa，K.Long-termintegrationsandstabilityofplanetaryorbitsinourSolarSysteMon.Not.R.Astron.Soc.336，483–500（2002）

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