%0 Journal Article
%T Chaotic dust dynamics and implications for the hemispherical color asymmetries of the Uranian satellites
%A Daniel Tamayo
%A Joseph A. Burns
%A Douglas P. Hamilton
%J Physics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%R 10.1016/j.icarus.2013.06.018
%X Dust grains generated by the Uranian irregular satellites will undergo chaotic large-amplitude eccentricity oscillations under the simultaneous action of radiation forces and the highly misaligned quadrupole potentials of the oblate planet and distant Sun. From a suite of orbital histories, we estimate collision proba- bilities of dust particles with the regular satellites and argue that this process may explain the observed hemispherical color asymmetries of the outermost four regular satellites of Uranus.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3973v1