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The main form of the representation of a gravitational potential V for a celestial body T in outer space is the Laplace series in solid spherical harmonics (R/ r) n + 1Yn(θ, λ) with R being the radius of the enveloping T sphere. The surface harmonic Yn satisfies the inequality(Formula presented.)The angular brackets mark the maximum of a function’s modulus over a unit sphere. For bodies with an irregular structure σ= 5 / 2 , and this value cannot be increased generally. However, a class of irregular bodies (smooth bodies with peaked mountains) has been found recently in which σ= 3. In this paper, we will prove the exactness of this estimate, showing that a body belonging to the above class does exist and (Formula presented.)for it.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 75-94 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy |
| Volume | 128 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - 1 May 2017 |
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