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Among more than 200 extrasolar planet candidates discovered to date, there is no known planet orbiting around normal binary stars. In this paper, we demonstrate that microlensing is a technique that can detect such planets. Microlensing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Cheongho Han

Planetary systems with multiple transiting planets are beneficial for understanding planet occurrence rates and system architectures. Although we have yet to find a solar system analogue, future surveys may detect multiple terrestrial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Bethlee Lindor , Eric Agol

The ``minimum-mass solar nebula'' (MMSN) model estimates the surface density distribution of the protoplanetary disk by assuming the planets to have formed in situ. However, significant radial migration of the giant planets likely occurred…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sean N. Raymond , Thomas Quinn , Jonathan I. Lunine

Recent observations show that planet can reside in close binary systems with stellar separation of only about 20 AU. However, planet formation in such close binary systems is a challenge to current theory. One of the major theoretical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ji-Wei Xie , Ji-Lin Zhou

Nearby giant exoplanets offer an opportunity to search for moons (exomoons) orbiting them. Here, we present a simulation framework for investigating the possibilities of detecting exomoons via their astrometric signal in planet-to-star…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-18 Kevin Wagner , Ewan Douglas , Steve Ertel , Kyran Grattan , S. Pete Worden , Aniket Sanghi , Billy Quarles , Charles Beichman

Planet formation around one component of a tight, eccentric binary system such as $\gamma$ Cephei (with semimajor axis around 20 AU) is theoretically challenging because of destructive high-velocity collisions between planetesimals. Despite…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-18 Kedron Silsbee , Roman R. Rafikov

Stellar mass black hole binaries have individual masses between 10-80 solar masses. These systems may emit gravitational waves at frequencies detectable at Megaparsec distances by space-based gravitational wave observatories. In a previous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Matthew Benacquista , Jesus Hinojosa , Alberto Mata , Krzysztof Belczynski

We numerically investigate under which conditions the planet detected at 2.1 AU of Gamma-Cephei could form through the core-accretion scenario despite the perturbing presence of the highly eccentric companion star. We first show that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Philippe Thebault , Francesco Marzari , Hans Scholl , D. Turrini , Mauro Barbieri

The discovery of the first extra-solar planet surrounding a main-sequence star was announced in 1995, based on very precise radial velocity (Doppler) measurements. A total of 34 such planets were known by the end of March 2000, and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. A. C. Perryman

We use detailed simulations of the Gaia observations of synthetic planetary systems and develop and utilize independent software codes in double-blind mode to analyze the data, including statistical tools for planet detection and different…

Over 50 circumbinary exoplanets have been discovered in recent years, with several of them being gas giants on wide orbits ($>10$AU). The aim of this work is to investigate whether these planets can form through circumbinary disc…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Matthew Teasdale , Dimitris Stamatellos

We demonstrate that microlensing can be used for detecting planets in binary stellar systems. This is possible because in the geometry of planetary binary systems where the planet orbits one of the binary component and the other binary star…

The Kepler mission has discovered about a dozen circumbinary planetary systems, all containing planets on ~ 1 AU orbits. We place bounds on the locations in the circumbinary protoplanetary disk, where these planets could have formed through…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Kedron Silsbee , Roman R. Rafikov

Over 30 planetary systems have been discovered to reside in binary stars. For small separations gravitational perturbation of the secondary star has a strong influence on the planet formation process. It truncates the protoplanetary disk,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wilhelm Kley , Richard Nelson

Proxima Centauri was recently discovered to host an Earth-mass planet of Proxima b, and a 215-day signal which is probably a potential planet c. In this work, we investigate the dynamical evolution of the Proxima Centauri system with the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-30 Tong Meng , Jianghui Ji , Yao Dong

Planetary systems orbiting close binaries are valuable testing grounds for planet formation and migration models. More detections with good mass measurements are needed. We present a new planet discovered during the BEBOP survey for…

The discovery of planets around massive stars is important for understanding how planet formation and evolution is conditioned by different stellar environments. However, current planetary search surveys have failed to detect planets around…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 E. Delgado Mena

Formation of planets in the 47 UMa system is followed in an evolving protoplanetary disk composed of gas and solids. The evolution of the disk is calculated from an early stage, when all solids, assumed to be high-temperature silicates, are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kacper Kornet , Peter Bodenheimer , Michal Rozyczka