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Peer-reviewedCC BY 4.0Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

On the long-term orbital behaviour of Hilda asteroids – I. Global stability patterns and catalogue

  • Cristian F Chavez1,2,3
  • Jonathan Horner1
  • Patryk Sofia Lykawka4
  • Timothy R Holt1
  • Brad Carter1
4 affiliations
  1. 1Centre for Astrophysics, University of Southern Queensland , West St, Darling Heights, Toowoomba, QLD 4350 ,
  2. 2Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo en Ciencias Aeroespaciales, Academia Politécnica Aeronáutica , Fuerza Aérea de Chile, JMC 11087, Santiago ,
  3. 3Centro Espacial Nacional, Fuerza Aérea de Chile , Av. Pedro Aguirre Cerda 5500, Santiago ,
  4. 4Kindai University , Shinkamikosaka 228-3, Higashiosaka, Osaka 577-0813 ,
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Abstract

The Hildas are objects trapped in 3:2 mean-motion resonance (MMR) with Jupiter and are a fascinating window into the Solar system’s formation and evolution. We present the results of detailed dynamical integrations of 2699 numbered asteroids in the Hilda region, following 243 clones of each Hilda for 1 Gyr under the influence of the giant planets and the Sun; 54.7 per cent of our sample exhibit extreme dynamical stability, with all clones of 1475 Hildas remaining trapped in the 3:2 MMR for the full 1 Gyr of our integrations. A further 408 Hildas (15.1 per cent of the sample) see more than 50 per cent of their clones surviving within the MMR at the end of the simulations. Of the remaining 30.2 per cent of the population, 327 objects (12.1 per cent) lose 50 per cent of their clones at some point between the 100 Myr and 1 Gyr point, leading to dynamical half-lives measured in hundreds of millions of years – a result compatible with those objects being members of a once larger population of Hildas trapped since the Solar system’s youth. The final 489 objects (18.12 per cent) prove highly unstable – and may well be interlopers, captured to the Hilda population in the relatively recent past. Overall, our results suggest that the Hilda population was larger in the past, while its remarkably high stability over Gyr time-scales is consistent with a primordial origin.

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@article{chavez2026longterm,
  title = {{On the long-term orbital behaviour of Hilda asteroids – I. Global stability patterns and catalogue}},
  author = {Cristian F Chavez and Jonathan Horner and Patryk Sofia Lykawka and Timothy R Holt and Brad Carter},
  journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.1093/mnras/stag1832},
  url = {https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stag1832/8943801},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - On the long-term orbital behaviour of Hilda asteroids – I. Global stability patterns and catalogue
AU  - Cristian F Chavez
AU  - Jonathan Horner
AU  - Patryk Sofia Lykawka
AU  - Timothy R Holt
AU  - Brad Carter
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/19
JO  - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
DO  - 10.1093/mnras/stag1832
UR  - https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stag1832/8943801
AB  - The Hildas are objects trapped in 3:2 mean-motion resonance (MMR) with Jupiter and are a fascinating window into the Solar system’s formation and evolution. We present the results of detailed dynamical integrations of 2699 numbered asteroids in the Hilda region, following 243 clones of each Hilda for 1 Gyr under the influence of the giant planets and the Sun; 54.7 per cent of our sample exhibit extreme dynamical stability, with all clones of 1475 Hildas remaining trapped in the 3:2 MMR for the full 1 Gyr of our integrations. A further 408 Hildas (15.1 per cent of the sample) see more than 50 per cent of their clones surviving within the MMR at the end of the simulations. Of the remaining 30.2 per cent of the population, 327 objects (12.1 per cent) lose 50 per cent of their clones at some point between the 100 Myr and 1 Gyr point, leading to dynamical half-lives measured in hundreds of millions of years – a result compatible with those objects being members of a once larger population of Hildas trapped since the Solar system’s youth. The final 489 objects (18.12 per cent) prove highly unstable – and may well be interlopers, captured to the Hilda population in the relatively recent past. Overall, our results suggest that the Hilda population was larger in the past, while its remarkably high stability over Gyr time-scales is consistent with a primordial origin.
SN  - 0035-8711
SN  - 1365-2966
ER  -