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The Kepler Mission has detected dozens of compact planetary systems with more than four transiting planets. This sample provides a collection of close-packed planetary systems with relatively little spread in the inclination angles of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 Juliette C. Becker , Fred C. Adams

Among $\sim 160$ of the multiple exoplanetary systems confirmed, about $30\%$ of them have neighboring pairs with a period ratio $\leq 2$. A significant fraction of these pairs are around mean motion resonance (MMR), more interestingly,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Xiaojia Zhang , Hui Li , Shengtai Li , Douglas N. C. Lin

The results of an extensive numerical study of the periodic orbits of planar, elliptic restricted three-body planetary systems consisting of a star, an inner massive planet and an outer mass-less body in the external 1:2 mean-motion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nader Haghighipour , Jocelyn Couetdic , Ferenc Varadi , William B. Moore

Nowadays, many extrasolar planetary systems possessing at least one planet on a highly eccentric orbit have been discovered. In this work, we study the possible long-term stability of such systems. We consider the general three body problem…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-09 Kyriaki I. Antoniadou , George Voyatzis

The identification of mean motion resonances in exoplanetary systems or in the Solar System might be cumbersome when several planets and large number of smaller bodies are to be considered. Based on the geometrical meaning of the resonance…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 E. Forgács-Dajka , Zs. Sándor , B. Érdi

Asteroids in mean motion resonances with giant planets are common in the solar system, but it was not until recently that several asteroids in retrograde mean motion resonances with Jupiter and Saturn were discovered. A retrograde…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-14 Yukun Huang , Miao Li , Junfeng Li , Shengping Gong

The formation of resonant planets pairs in exoplanetary systems involves planetary migration inside the protoplanetary disc : an inwards migrating outer planet captures in Mean Motion Resonance an inner planet. During the migration of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-18 A. Crida , Zs. Sándor , W. Kley

Many extrasolar systems possessing planets in mean-motion resonance or resonant chain have been discovered to date. The transit method coupled with transit timing variation analysis provides an insight into the physical and orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Kyriaki I. Antoniadou , Anne-Sophie Libert

We provide a detailed theoretical study aimed at the observational finding about the nu Octantis binary system that indicates the possible existence of a Jupiter-type planet in this system. If a prograde planetary orbit is assumed, it has…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Billy Quarles , Manfred Cuntz , Zdzislaw E. Musielak

Among the numerous discoveries resulting from the {\it Kepler} mission are a plethora of compact planetary systems that provide deep insights into planet formation theories. The architecture of such compact systems also produces unique…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Stephen R. Kane

The Kepler mission has recently discovered a number of exoplanetary systems, such as Kepler-11 and Kepler-32, in which ensembles of several planets are found in very closely packed orbits (often within a few percent of an AU of one…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 T. O. Hands , R. D. Alexander , W. Dehnen

Space missions have discovered a large number of exoplanets evolving in (or close to) mean-motion resonances (MMRs) and resonant chains. Often, the published data exhibit very high uncertainties due to the observational limitations that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Kyriaki I. Antoniadou , George Voyatzis

The long-term stability of the evolution of two-planet systems is considered by using the general three body problem (GTBP). Our study is focused on the stability of systems with adjacent orbits when at least one of them is highly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-10 Kyriaki I. Antoniadou , George Voyatzis

Planet-planet scattering is the leading mechanism to explain the large eccentricities of the observed exoplanet population. However, scattering has not been considered important to the production of pairs of planets in mean motion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sean N. Raymond , Rory Barnes , Philip J. Armitage , Noel Gorelick

Mean motion resonances play a fundamental role in the dynamics of the small bodies of the Solar System. The last decades of the 20th century gave us a detailed description of the dynamics as well as the process of capture of small bodies in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Tabare Gallardo

Recent observations of Kepler multi-planet systems have revealed a number of systems with planets very close to second-order mean motion resonances (MMRs, with period ratio $1:3$, $3:5$, etc.) We present an analytic study of resonance…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Wenrui Xu , Dong Lai

The presence of mean motion resonances (MMRs) complicates analysis and fitting of planetary systems observed through the radial velocity (RV) technique. MMR can allow planets to remain stable in regions of phase space where strong…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 M. M. Rosenthal , W. Jacobson-Galan , B. Nelson , R. A. Murray-Clay , J. A. Burt , B. Holden , E. Chang , N. Kaaz , J. Yant , R. P. Butler , S. S. Vogt

A planet orbiting around a star in a binary system can be ejected if it lies too far from its host star. We find that instability boundaries first obtained in numerical studies can be explained by overlap between sub-resonances within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lawrence R. Mudryk , Yanqin Wu

The study of orbital resonances allows for the constraint of planetary properties of compact systems. We can predict a system's resonances by observing the orbital periods of the planets, as planets in or near mean motion resonance have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Mariah G. MacDonald , Michael S. Polania Vivas , Skylar D'Angiolillo , Ashley N. Fernandez , Tyler Quinn

Mean-motion resonances (MMRs) form through convergent disc migration of planet pairs, which may be disrupted by dynamical instabilities after protoplanetary disc (PPD) dispersal. This scenario is supported by recent analysis of TESS data…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Yi-Xian Chen , Yinhao Wu , Ya-Ping Li , Douglas N. C. Lin , Richard Alexander , Sergei Nayakshin , Fei Dai