COLLISIONAL CASCADE CALCULATIONS FOR IRREGULAR SATELLITE SWARMS IN FOMALHAUT b
COLLISIONAL CASCADE CALCULATIONS FOR IRREGULAR SATELLITE SWARMS IN FOMALHAUT b
We describe an extensive suite of numerical calculations for the collisional evolution of irregular satellite swarms around 1--300 M-earth planets orbiting at 120 AU in the Fomalhaut system. For 10--100 M-earth planets, swarms with initial masses of roughly 1% of the planet mass have cross-sectional areas comparable to the observed …