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We report measurements of centripetal accelerations of maser spectral components of NGC 4258 for 51 epochs spanning 1994 to 2004. This is the second paper of a series, in which the goal is determination of a new geometric maser distance to…

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We aim to investigate the influence of the eccentricity and inclination damping due to planet-disc interactions on the final configurations of the systems, generalizing previous studies on the combined action of the gas disc and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-09 Sotiris Sotiriadis , Anne-Sophie Libert , Bertram Bitsch , Aurélien Crida

We use N-body simulations to explore the influence of orbital eccentricity on the dynamical evolution of star clusters. Specifically we compare the mass loss rate, velocity dispersion, relaxation time, and the mass function of star clusters…

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With an average eccentricity of about 0.29, the eccentricity distribution of extrasolar planets is markedly different from the solar system. Among other scenarios considered, it has been proposed that eccentricity may grow through…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-09 Bertram Bitsch , Willy Kley

Most extrasolar planets are observed to have eccentricities much larger than those in the solar system. Some of these planets have sibling planets, with comparable masses, orbiting around the same host stars. In these multiple planetary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Nagasawa , D. N. C. Lin , S. Ida

We present a new computation of the linear tidal interaction of a protoplanetary core with a thin gaseous disc in which it is fully embedded. For the first time a discussion of the orbital evolution of cores with eccentricity (e)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. B. Papaloizou , J. D. Larwood

We present a method for constructing models of weakly self-gravitating, finite dispersion eccentric stellar disks around central black holes. The disk is stationary in a frame rotating at a constant precession speed. The stars populate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. M. Salow , T. S. Statler

Accretion disks around stars, or other central massive bodies, can support long-lived, slowly precessing $m=1$ disturbances in which the fluid motion is nearly Keplerian with non-zero eccentricity. We study such `slow modes' in disks that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Wing-Kit Lee , Adam M. Dempsey , Yoram Lithwick

We study the evolution of circumstellar massive disks around the primary star of a binary system focusing on the computation of disk eccentricity. In particular, we concentrate on its dependence on the binary eccentricity. Self-gravity is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Marzari , H. Scholl , P. Thebault , C. Baruteau

A maximum likelihood analysis of the NGC 4258 maser positions and velocities reveals a ~2 sigma deviation from Keplerian motion in the projected rotation curve of the high-velocity features, corresponding to a ~9 km/s, or 0.8%, flattening…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. R. Herrnstein , J. M. Moran , L. J. Greenhill , Adam S. Trotter

We use N-body simulations to study the evolution of the orbital eccentricities of stars deposited near (<0.05 pc) the Milky Way massive black hole (MBH), starting from initial conditions motivated by two competing models for their origin:…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-24 Hagai B. Perets , Alessia Gualandris , Gabor Kupi , David Merritt , Tal Alexander

In some galaxies, the stars orbiting the supermassive black hole take the form of an eccentric nuclear disk, in which every star is on a coherent, apsidally-aligned orbit. The most famous example of an eccentric nuclear disk is the double…

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High-resolution observations from the sub-mm to the optical wavelength regime resolve the central few 100pc region of nearby galaxies in great detail. They reveal a large diversity of features: thick gas and stellar discs, nuclear…

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We analyze the dynamics of individual kilometer-size planetesimals in circumstellar orbits of a tight binary system. We include both the gravitational perturbations of the secondary star and a non-linear gas drag stemming from an eccentric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 C. Beauge , A. M. Leiva , N. Haghighipour , J. Correa Otto

We study the evolution of circumstellar disks in 22 young (1 to 100 Myr) nearby (within 500 pc) associations over the entire mass spectrum using photometry covering from the optical to the mid-infrared. We compiled a catalog of 2340…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Álvaro Ribas , Bruno Merín , Hervé Bouy , Luke T. Maud

We study the development of finite eccentricity in accretion disks in close binary systems using a two-dimensional grid-based numerical scheme. We perform detailed parameter studies to explore the dependence on viscosity, disk aspect ratio,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Wilhelm Kley , John Papaloizou , Gordon Ogilvie

The orbital eccentricity distribution of exoplanets is shaped by a combination of dynamical processes, reflecting both formation conditions and long-term evolution. Probing the orbital dynamics of planets in the kinematic thin and thick…

We investigate the interaction between an eccentric planet and a less massive external debris disc. This scenario could occur after planet-planet scattering or merging events. We characterise the evolution over a wide range of initial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Tim D. Pearce , Mark C. Wyatt

We study the mutual evolution of the orbital properties of high mass ratio, circular, co-planar binaries and their surrounding discs, using 3D Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations. We investigate the evolution of binary and disc…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-29 Enrico Ragusa , Richard Alexander , Josh Calcino , Kieran Hirsh , Daniel J. Price

The formation and early evolution of protoplanetary disks are governed by a wide variety of physical processes during a gravitational collapse. Observations have begun probing disks in their earliest stages, and have favored the…