On inertial forces (indirect terms) in problems with a central body
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| author | Crida, Aurélien Baruteau, Clément Griveaud, Philippine Lega, Elena Masset, Frédéric Béthune, William Fang, David Gonzalez, Jean-François Méheut, Héloïse Morbidelli, Alessandro Gerosa, Fabiola Kloster, Dylan Marques, Léa Miniussi, Alain Minker, Kate Pichierri, Gabriele Segretain, Paul |
| author_facet | Crida, Aurélien Baruteau, Clément Griveaud, Philippine Lega, Elena Masset, Frédéric Béthune, William Fang, David Gonzalez, Jean-François Méheut, Héloïse Morbidelli, Alessandro Gerosa, Fabiola Kloster, Dylan Marques, Léa Miniussi, Alain Minker, Kate Pichierri, Gabriele Segretain, Paul |
| contents | Gravitational systems in astrophysics often comprise a body -- the primary -- that far outweights the others, and which is taken as the centre of the reference frame. A fictitious acceleration, also known as the indirect term, must therefore be added to all other bodies in the system to compensate for the absence of motion of the primary. In this paper, we first stress that there is not one indirect term but as many indirect terms as there are bodies in the system that exert a gravitational pull on the primary. For instance, in the case of a protoplanetary disc with two planets, there are three indirect terms: one arising from the whole disc, and one per planet. We also highlight that the direct and indirect gravitational accelerations should be treated in a balanced way: the indirect term from one body should be applied to the other bodies in the system that feel its direct gravitational acceleration, and only to them. We point to situations where one of those terms is usually neglected however, which may lead to spurious results. These ideas are developed here for star-disc-planets interactions, for which we propose a recipe for the force to be applied onto a migrating planet, but they can easily be generalized to other astrophysical systems. |
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| spellingShingle | On inertial forces (indirect terms) in problems with a central body Crida, Aurélien Baruteau, Clément Griveaud, Philippine Lega, Elena Masset, Frédéric Béthune, William Fang, David Gonzalez, Jean-François Méheut, Héloïse Morbidelli, Alessandro Gerosa, Fabiola Kloster, Dylan Marques, Léa Miniussi, Alain Minker, Kate Pichierri, Gabriele Segretain, Paul Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Classical Physics Gravitational systems in astrophysics often comprise a body -- the primary -- that far outweights the others, and which is taken as the centre of the reference frame. A fictitious acceleration, also known as the indirect term, must therefore be added to all other bodies in the system to compensate for the absence of motion of the primary. In this paper, we first stress that there is not one indirect term but as many indirect terms as there are bodies in the system that exert a gravitational pull on the primary. For instance, in the case of a protoplanetary disc with two planets, there are three indirect terms: one arising from the whole disc, and one per planet. We also highlight that the direct and indirect gravitational accelerations should be treated in a balanced way: the indirect term from one body should be applied to the other bodies in the system that feel its direct gravitational acceleration, and only to them. We point to situations where one of those terms is usually neglected however, which may lead to spurious results. These ideas are developed here for star-disc-planets interactions, for which we propose a recipe for the force to be applied onto a migrating planet, but they can easily be generalized to other astrophysical systems. |
| title | On inertial forces (indirect terms) in problems with a central body |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Classical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23331 |