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from Part II - Astrophysical SOC Phenomena
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2024
Empirically we find that many phenomena in planetary science reveal power law-like size distributions with a power law slope of for differential size distributions, or for cumulative size distributions. These observational results fully agree with theoretical predictions of the FD-SOC model. These observations include lunar craters, Saturn ring particles, near-Earth objects, Jovian Trojans, asteroids, Neptune Trojans, the Kuijper belt, and extrasolar planets. Mars fluvial systems and dust storms reveal fractal structures. Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes indicate also scale-free power law slopes. It appears that the scale-free behavior of planetary phenomena could result from both accumulation and fragmentation processes.
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