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Tidal and tidal-resonant effects in coalescing compact binary systems are investigated by direct numerical integration of the equations of motion. For the stars polytropic models are used. The tidal effects are found to be dominated by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Kostas D. Kokkotas , Gerhard Schaefer

We study systems of close orbiting planets evolving under the influence of tidal circularization. It is supposed that a commensurability forms through the action of disk induced migration and orbital circularization. After the system enters…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. C. B. Papaloizou

Although the internal structure of white dwarfs is considered to be generally well understood, the source and entity of viscosity is still very uncertain. We propose here to study white dwarf viscous properties using short period (< 1 hr),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Simone Dall'Osso , Elena Maria Rossi

More than half of all stars are part of binaries, and many form in a common circumbinary disc. The interaction with the binary shapes the disc to feature a large eccentric inner cavity and spirals in the inner disc. The shape of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-29 Anna B. T. Penzlin , Richard A. Booth , Richard P. Nelson , Christoph M. Schäfer , Wilhelm Kley

Most extrasolar planets currently known were discovered by means of an indirect method that measures the stellar wobble caused by the planet. We previously studied a triple system composed of a star and a nearby binary on circular coplanar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 M. H. M. Morais , A. C. M. Correia

The tidal breakup of binary star systems by the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the center of the galaxy has been suggested as the source of both the observed sample of hypervelocity stars (HVSs) in the halo of the Galaxy and the S-stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Fabio Antonini , Joshua Faber , Alessia Gualandris , David Merritt

Binary post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) stars have orbital periods in the range of 100--2500 days in eccentric orbits. They are surrounded by circumbinary dusty discs. They are the immediate result of unconstrained binary interaction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Glenn-Michael Oomen , Onno Pols , Hans Van Winckel , Gijs Nelemans

Most transiting planets orbit very close to their parent star, causing strong tidal forces between the two bodies. Tidal interaction can modify the dynamics of the system through orbital alignment, circularisation, synchronisation, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Frederic Pont

We consider the tidal interaction of a fully convective primary star and a point mass. Using a normal mode decomposition we calculate the evolution of the primary angular velocity and orbit for arbitrary eccentricity e. The dissipation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. B. Ivanov , J. C. B. Papaloizou

High-precision and long-duration light curves from space telescopes have revolutionized the fields of asteroseismology and binary star systems. In particular, the number of pulsating systems in eclipsing binaries has drastically increased…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 John Southworth , Dominic Bowman

We perform numerical simulations to investigate the stellar wind from interacting binary stars. Our aim is to find analytical formulae describing the outflow structure. In each binary system the more massive star is in the asymptotic giant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Luis C. Bermúdez-Bustamante , G. García-Segura , W. Steffen , L. Sabin

Planets in the liquid-water habitable zone of low-mass stars experience large tidal forces, $10^3$ to $10^4$ times those on Earth, due to the small distance between the habitable zone and the host stars. Therefore, interior solid tides,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jiaru Shi , Jun Yang , Dorian S. Abbot , Yonggang Liu , Wanying Kang , Yufeng Lin

The Galactic Center has been under intense scrutiny in the recent years thanks to the unprecedented missions aiming at measuring the gas and star dynamics near the supermassive black hole (SMBH) and at finding gravitational wave (GW)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-13 Re'em Sari , Giacomo Fragione

We examine the consequences of, and apply, the formalism developed in Terquem (2021) for calculating the rate $D_R$ at which energy is exchanged between fast tides and convection. In this previous work, $D_R$ (which is proportional to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Caroline Terquem , Scott Martin

Tidal dissipation in star-planet systems can occur through various mechanisms, among which is the elliptical instability. This acts on elliptically deformed equilibrium tidal flows in rotating fluid planets and stars, and excites inertial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Nils B. de Vries , Adrian J. Barker , Rainer Hollerbach

We have carried out general relativistic particle simulations of stars tidally disrupted by massive black holes. When a star is disrupted in a bound orbit with moderate eccentricity instead of a parabolic orbit, the temporal behavior of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Lixin Dai , Andres Escala , Paolo Coppi

Gravitational waves emitted by coalescing binary systems containing neutron stars (or other compact objects) carry signatures of the stars' internal equation of state, notably, through the influence of tidal deformations during the binary's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-11 Batoul Banihashemi , Justin Vines

This paper introduces a series of papers presenting a quantitative theory for the tidal disruption of main sequence stars by supermassive black holes. Using fully general relativistic hydrodynamics simulations and MESA-model initial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Taeho Ryu , Julian Krolik , Tsvi Piran , Scott C. Noble

Two planets with orbital period ratio approximately 10:1 have been discovered around the star HD 83443. The inner and more massive planet, HD 83443b, has the smallest semi-major axis among all currently known exoplanets. Unlike other short…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yanqin Wu , Peter Goldreich

In a tidal disruption event (TDE), a star is destroyed by the tidal field of a supermassive black hole. The stellar debris is initially placed on highly elliptical orbits, and a longstanding question in TDE theory is: How does the stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Chris Nixon , Eric R. Coughlin , Zachary L. Andalman