Fig. 9.

Density distribution considering only particles trapped in resonances with Mars in a Martian single planet system in a fixed reference frame at three different planetary phases for β = 0.01. To identify trapped particles, their semi-major axis evolution was analysed. Only when the semi-major axis hovered about a constant value a particle was considered trapped and only then it was accounted for in the density distribution. As with the previous density plots, the density is normalised to the surface density arising under the absence of planets. The low density as well as the different geometry of these resonant features makes them inadequate as to solely account for the overall density variations produced by Mars (Fig. 8), indicating a formation mechanism other than resonant trapping.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.