Thesis:
Cometary water delivery: n-body simulations of non-gravitational forces in early earth hydration

datacite.subject.fosNatural sciences::Physical sciences::Astronomy
dc.contributor.correferenteCuadra, Jorge
dc.contributor.departmentDepartamento de Física
dc.contributor.guiaSchreiber, Matthias
dc.coverage.spatialCampus Casa Central Valparaíso
dc.creatorTapia Henríquez, Judytza
dc.date.accessioned2026-08-12T13:14:45Z
dc.date.available2026-08-12T13:14:45Z
dc.date.issued2026-07
dc.description.abstractThis thesis investigates the effect of non-gravitational forces on the probability of cometary encounters with Earth. Using N-body simulations of 1,000 comets over 100,000 years, scenarios with and without NGF and with and without planets were compared. The results show that NGF double the encounter probability, from 30% to 60%. This increase is primarily attributable to the transverse component A2, which reduces orbit size and eccentricity. The effect varies by dynamical family: it is dominant for Asteroid Belt family comets and negligible for Oort cloud comets. These results suggest that classical water delivery models may have underestimated the cometary contribution to Earth's water, and that NGF must be considered in impact risk assessments and planetary defense.en_US
dc.description.degreeMagíster en Ciencias mención Física
dc.driverinfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
dc.format.extent49 páginas
dc.identifier.barcodeMC_JT_2026
dc.identifier.doi10.71959/544s-8g62
dc.identifier.urihttps://cris.usm.cl/handle/123456789/4479
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.71959/544s-8g62
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversidad Técnica Federico Santa María
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectComets
dc.subjectEarth encounters
dc.subjectOrbital dynamics
dc.subjectAsteroid Belt
dc.subjectOort cloud
dc.subjectPlanetary defense
dc.subjectRebound
dc.titleCometary water delivery: n-body simulations of non-gravitational forces in early earth hydration
dc.type.driverinfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
dspace.entity.typeTesis

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