We consider the excitation of the inertial modes of a uniformly rotatingfully convective body due to a close encounter with another object. This couldlead to a tidal capture or orbital circularisation depending on whether theinitial orbit is unbound or highly eccentric. We develop a general self-adjointformalism for the response problem and thus solve it taking into account theinertial modes with $m=2$ for a full polytrope with $n=1.5.$ We are accordinglyable to show in this case that the excitation of inertial modes dominates theresponse for large impact parameters and thus cannot be neglected incalculations of tidal energy and angular momentum exchange or orbitalcircularisation from large eccentricity.
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机译：由于与另一个物体的近距离接触，我们考虑激发均匀旋转对流体的惯性模。这可能会导致潮汐捕获或轨道环化，具体取决于初始轨道是未约束的还是高度偏心的。我们针对响应问题开发了一种一般的自伴随形式，因此考虑到$ n = 1.5的完整多形体的$ m = 2 $的惯性模式来解决它。因此，在这种情况下，我们可以证明惯性的激发模式对大的冲击参数起主导作用，因此不能忽略对潮汐能和角动量交换或大圆偏心的轨道圆化的计算。
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