A Spiral Structure in the Inner Oort Cloud
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🌌 astro-ph.EP
astro-ph.GA
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spiraloortcloudinnerstructureactsbodiescreates
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As the Galactic tide acts to decouple bodies from the scattered disk it creates a spiral structure in physical space that is roughly 15,000 au in length. The spiral is long-lived and persists in the inner Oort cloud to the present time. Here we discuss dynamics underlying the Oort spiral and (feeble) prospects for its observational detection.
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