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Hot Jupiters on extremely short-period orbits are expected to be unstable to tidal dissipation and spiral toward their host stars. That is because they transfer the angular momentum of the orbital motion through tidal dissipation into the…

Context: The Solar System giant planets harbour a wide variety of moons. Moons around exoplanets are plausibly similarly abundant, even though most of them are likely too small to be easily detectable with modern instruments. Moons are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Yubo Su , Melaine Saillenfest

We explore the evolution of a giant planet that interacts with a circumbinary disc that orbits a misaligned binary by means of analytic models and hydrodynamical simulations. Planet-disc interactions lead to mutual tilt oscillations between…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-10 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

The aim of this talk is to present the most recent advances in establishing plausible planetary system architectures determined by the gravitational tidal interactions between the planets and the disc in which they are embedded during the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ewa Szuszkiewicz , John C. B. Papaloizou

We investigate the dynamical evolution of hierarchical three-body systems under the effect of tides, when the ratio of the orbital semi-major axes is small and the mutual inclination is relatively large (greater than 20 degrees). Using the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-06 Alexandre C. M. Correia , Jacques Laskar , François Farago , Gwenaël Boué

Unveiling the fate of ultra-short period (USP) planets may help us understand the qualitative agreement between tidal theory and the observed exoplanet distribution. Nevertheless, due to the time-varying interchange of spin-orbit angular…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes , Mario Sucerquia , Carolina García-Carmona , Jorge I. Zuluaga , Lee Spitler , Christian Schwab

We provide a generalized discussion of tidal evolution to arbitrary order in the expansion of the gravitational potential between two spherical bodies of any mass ratio. To accurately reproduce the tidal evolution of a system at separations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Patrick A. Taylor , Jean-Luc Margot

Tidal torques can alter the spins of tidally interacting stars and planets, usually over shorter timescales than the tidal damping of orbital separations or eccentricities. Simple tidal models predict that, in eccentric binary or planetary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Janosz W. Dewberry

Tidal dissipation in stars is one of the key physical mechanisms that drive the evolution of binary and multiple stars. As in the Earth oceans, it corresponds to the resonant excitation of their eigenmodes of oscillation and their damping.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Auclair-Desrotour , S. Mathis , C. Le Poncin-Lafitte

Tidal transfer of angular momentum is expected to cause hot Jupiters to spiral into their host stars. Although the timescale for orbital decay is very uncertain, it should be faster for systems with larger and more evolved stars. Indeed, it…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kevin C. Schlaufman , Joshua N. Winn

Earth-like planets have viscoelastic mantles, whereas giant planets may have viscoelastic cores. The tidal dissipation of such solid regions, gravitationally perturbed by a companion body, highly depends on their rheology and on the tidal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 F. Remus , S. Mathis , J. -P. Zahn , V. Lainey

The large number of exoplanets found to orbit their host stars in very close orbits have significantly advanced our understanding of the planetary formation process. It is now widely accepted that such short-period planets cannot have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-07 Jianghui Ji , Sheng Jin , C. G. Tinney

The two dominant features in the distribution of orbital parameters for close-in exoplanets are the prevalence of circular orbits for very short periods, and the observation that planets on closer orbits tend to be heavier. The first…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Frederic Pont , Nawal Husnoo , Tsevi Mazeh , Daniel Fabrycky

The dynamical evolution of tight star-planet systems is influenced by tidal interactions between the star and the planet, as was shown recently. The rate at which spins and orbits in such a system evolve depends on the stellar and planetary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-25 Nikoleta Ilić , Katja Poppenhaeger , Anna Barbara Queiroz , Cristina Chiappini

Recent observations of several protoplanetary discs have found evidence of departures from flat, circular motion in the inner regions of the disc. One possible explanation for these observations is a disc warp, which could be induced by a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Rebecca Nealon , Giovanni Dipierro , Richard Alexander , Rebecca Martin , Chris Nixon

Star-planet tidal interactions play a significant role in the dynamical evolution of close-in planetary systems. We investigate the propagation and dissipation of tidal inertial waves in a stellar/planetary convective region. We take into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-25 A. Astoul , S. Mathis , C. Baruteau , Q. André

A gas giant planet which survives the giant branch stages of evolution at a distance of many au and then is subsequently perturbed sufficiently close to a white dwarf will experience orbital shrinkage and circularization due to star-planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Dimitri Veras , Jim Fuller

Tidal dissipation is responsible for circularizing the orbits and synchronizing the spins of solar-type close binary stars, but the mechanisms responsible are not fully understood. Previous work has indicated that significant enhancements…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Adrian J. Barker

The dissipation of tidal inertial waves in planetary and stellar convective regions is one of the key mechanisms that drive the evolution of star-planet/planet-moon systems. In this context, the interaction between tidal inertial waves and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Virgile Dandoy , Junho Park , Kyle Augustson , Aurélie Astoul , Stéphane Mathis

Tidal dissipation in planets and stars is one of the key physical mechanisms driving the evolution of star-planet and planet-moon systems. Several signatures of its action are observed in planetary systems thanks to their orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 P. Auclair-Desrotour , S. Mathis , C. Le Poncin-Lafitte