Evidence of a Jovian Mass Solar Companion in the Oort Cloud PEER-REVIEWED PLANET X?

[EYES WIDE OPEN]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.4584 Download on the right.

Persistent Evidence of a Jovian Mass Solar Companion in the Oort Cloud

Authors: John J. Matese, Daniel P. Whitmire

(Submitted on 26 Apr 2010)

Abstract: We present an updated dynamical and statistical analysis of outer Oort cloud cometary evidence suggesting the sun has a wide-binary Jovian mass companion. The results support a conjecture that there exists a companion of mass ~ 1-4 M_Jup orbiting in the innermost region of the outer Oort cloud. Our most restrictive prediction is that the orientation angles of the orbit normal in galactic coordinates are centered on the galactic longitude of the ascending node Omega = 319 degree and the galactic inclination i = 103 degree (or the opposite direction) with an uncertainty in the normal direction subtending ~ 2% of the sky. A Bayesian statistical analysis suggests that the probability of the companion hypothesis is comparable to or greater than the probability of the null hypothesis of a statistical fluke. Such a companion could also have produced the detached Kuiper Belt object Sedna. The putative companion could be easily detected by the recently launched Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).

[zelda]

Please!!! In plain English, can you let us know what is going on?
Some of us are not erudites :)

[Solphilos]

They basically have found bits of evidence that may support Nemesis theory, or the existence of a companion to our sun. Not great evidence, but WISE(Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer ) is expected to give us more information.
Again, this is not a confirmation of anything, but is just a clue to keep us interested in the notion and anxiously awaiting news from WISE.

[Richard]

lol @ erudites

What they are basically saying is there is persistent evidence that a Jupiter sized body is inside the Oort Cloud.
The cloud surrounds our region of space outside our solar system.



http://www.astro.rug.nl/%7Eetolstoy/ACTUEELONDERZOEK/JAAR2000/oort/oort_cloud.gif

http://www.harmsy.freeuk.com/oimages/oort_cloud.jpg

[MorningSong]

Sounds very very interesting...

Thanks Eyes Wide Open!

[zelda]

Ahhhh, you see; Baby steps. With graph and info. Thank you so much Richard, Thank you so much Solphilos.

[bashi]

The result of this analysis is: Something can be out there with a high probability. It’s a lot of statistics with some data matching, while others is not.
But if assuming a large body out there, its likely to be:

“Thus we adopt an approximate range of perturber parameters 1MJ < Mp < 2MJ for a _ 30, 000AU extending to 2MJ < Mp < 4MJ for a _ 10, 000AU.”

That mass causes maybe weak stellar showers every 15 Million years which lasts 2 Million years :

“Matese and Lissauer (2002) investigated the frequency of weak stellar showers as well as the patterns of discernable OOC comet orbital elements. They found that stellar showers that produce a _ 20% peak enhancement in the background tidal flux occur with a frequency of approximately once every 15 Myr. The half-maximum duration is _ 2 Myr. Thus it is only moderately unlikely that we are presently in a weak stellar shower of this magnitude.”

“Modeling (Matese and Lissauer ( 2002)) had been performed including single stellar impulses
which mapped the comet flux over a time interval of 5 Myr, in 0.1 Myr intervals. Peak impulsive
enhancements _ 20% were found to have a half-maximum duration of _ 2 Myr and occurred with a mean time interval of _ 15 Myr”

These results are referring to a 1000 times longer time periodic phenomena, not to a 3600 or 26000 year period. It can not cause meteoric showers during a human lifetime, but an increase in occasionally hitting meteors during Millions of years.

Sorry folks, no Nemesis/Nibiru/Planet X; at least not because of this publication.

[lightblue]

don't feel sorry, it's great news :p

[EYES WIDE OPEN]

I think it is a mistake to dismiss this info so casually. It seems there is SOMETHING huge unseen in space. Because its orbit does not fit the litterer, it does not mean there is nothing there.

[RAKMEiSTER]

Sedna
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p217/rakmeister/Public/PIA05569.jpg
(was massuploading a space[folder]i got saw this was in it.