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The Earth's comparatively massive moon, formed via a giant impact on the proto-Earth, has played an important role in the development of life on our planet, both in the history and strength of the ocean tides and in stabilizing the chaotic…

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Mutually misaligned circumbinary planets may form in a warped or broken gas disc or from later planet-planet interactions. With numerical simulations and analytic estimates we explore the dynamics of two circumbinary planets with a large…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Anna C. Childs , Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen Lepp , Stephen H. Lubow , Aaron M. Geller

Exoplanet detection in the past decade by efforts including NASA's Kepler and TESS missions has discovered many worlds that differ substantially from planets in our own Solar System, including more than 150 exoplanets orbiting binary or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-03 Zhihui Kong , Jonathan H. Jiang , Remo Burn , Kristen A. Fahy , Zonghong Zhu

Based on the large number of elliptical planetary nebulae I argue that about 55 per cent of all progenitors of planetary nebulae have planets around them. The planets spin up the stars when the later evolve along the red giant branch or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Noam Soker

The ejection of planets by the instability of planetary systems is a potential source of free-floating planets. We numerically simulate multi-planet systems to study the evolution process, the properties of surviving systems, and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Ruocheng Zhai , Man Hoi Lee , Tianjun Gan , Shude Mao

Recent ground and space-based observations show that stars with multiple planets are common in the galaxy. Most of these observational methods are biased toward detecting large planets near to their host stars. Because of these…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 Thea Faridani , Smadar Naoz , Lingfeng Wei , Will M. Farr

We investigate the orbital dynamics of four-planet systems consisting of Earth-mass planets on initially-circular, coplanar orbits around a star of one solar mass. In our simulations, the innermost planet's semimajor axis is set at 1 AU,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Bennet Outland , Gretchen Noble , Andrew W. Smith , Jack J. Lissauer

We examine the dynamics and stability of circumbinary particles orbiting around the Earth-Moon binary system. The moon formed close to the Earth (semi-major axis $a_{EM}\approx 3\, R_\oplus$) and expanded through tides to its current day…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Stephen Lepp , Rebecca G. Martin , Stanley A. Baronett

Recent radial velocity observations have indicated that Jovian-type planets can exist in moderately close binary star systems. Numerical simulations of the dynamical stability of terrestrial-class planets in such environments have shown…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nader Haghighipour , Sean N. Raymond

Binary stars are ubiquitous; the majority of solar-type stars exist in binaries. Exoplanet occurrence rate is suppressed in binaries, but some multiples do still host planets. Binaries cause observational biases in planet parameters, with…

We discuss the detectability of gravitationally bounded pairs of gas-giant planets (which we call "binary planets") in extrasolar planetary systems that are formed through orbital instability followed by planet-planet dynamical tides during…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 K. M. Lewis , H. Ochiai , M. Nagasawa , S. Ida

Thousands of confirmed and candidate exoplanets have been identified in recent years. Consequently, theoretical research on the formation and dynamical evolution of planetary systems has seen a boost, and the processes of planet-planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-06 M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Qi Shu , Maxwell Xu Cai , Rainer Spurzem

Planets in binary-star systems exhibit demographic differences compared to planets in single-star systems. In particular, planets with binary-star hosts have a lower overall occurrence rate compared to their single-star counterparts, as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Kendall Sullivan , Gregory J. Gilbert

When exploring the stability of multiplanet systems in binaries, two parameters are normally exploited: the critical semimajor axis ac computed by Holman and Wiegert (1999) within which planets are stable against the binary perturbations,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 F. Marzari , G. Gallina

Planetary systems with more than two bodies will experience orbital crossings at a time related to the initial orbital separations of the planets. After a crossing, the system enters a period of chaotic evolution ending in the reshaping of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 David R. Rice , Frederic A. Rasio , Jason H. Steffen

We investigate the orbital dynamics of circumbinary planetary systems with two planets around a circular or eccentric orbit binary. The orbits of the two planet are initially circular and coplanar to each other, but misaligned with respect…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Cheng Chen , Stephen H. Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin

(Abridged) In planetary systems with two or more giant planets, dynamical instabilities can lead to collisions or ejections through strong planet--planet scattering. Previous studies for simple initial configurations with two equal-mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Eric B. Ford , Frederic A. Rasio

The stellar spin orientation relative to the orbital planes of multiplanet systems are becoming accessible to observations. For example, 55 Cancri is a system composed of 5 planets orbiting a member of a stellar binary for which a projected…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Gwenaël Boué , Daniel C. Fabrycky

The traditional method for detecting extra-solar planets relies on measuring a small stellar wobble which is assumed to be caused by a planet orbiting the star. Recently, it was suggested that a similar stellar wobble could be caused by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-03 Maria H. M. Morais , Alexandre C. M. Correia

Periodic solutions of the three body problem are very important for understanding its dynamics either in a theoretical framework or in various applications in celestial mechanics. In this paper we discuss the computation and continuation of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-04 George Voyatzis