2004A&A...428..247D

In long-term Monte Carlo simulations of the dynamics of the Oort cloud planetary perturbations cannot be taken directly into account. To do this we propose a simple approximation: estimating the Solar System transparency coefficient P measuring the probability for a comet to be removed from the cloud by planetary perturbations during a single perihelion passage. We estimated the value of this coefficient from the observed and artificial cometary samples. We excluded nongravitational forces fom our calculations. We obtained P≃0.25 for inner cloud comets and P≃0.5 for the outer and most active part of the cloud. The dependency of P on the comet observability limit OL is also presented for various cometary samples.