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We present 2D hydrodynamical simulations of hot Jupiters orbiting near the inner edge of protoplanetary discs. We systemically explore how the accretion rate at the inner disc edge is regulated by a giant planet of different mass, orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Jean Teyssandier , Dong Lai

We study the angular momentum transport inside the hot Jupiters under the the influences of gravitational and thermal forcing. Due to the strong stellar irradiation, radiative region develops on top of the convective region. Internal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Cong Yu

With a series of numerical simulations, we analyze the thermo-hydrodynamical evolution of circumstellar disks containing Jupiter-size protoplanets. In the framework of the two-dimensional approximation, we consider an energy equation that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-20 Gennaro D'Angelo , Thomas Henning , Willy Kley

The efficiency of tidal dissipation provides a zeroth-order link to a planet's physical properties. For super-Earth and sub-Neptune planets in the range $R_{\oplus}\lesssim R_p \lesssim 4 R_{\oplus}$, particularly efficient dissipation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Emma Louden , Gregory Laughlin , Sarah Millholland

Observations of hot Jupiters around solar-type stars with very short orbital periods (~day) suggest that tidal dissipation in such stars is not too efficient so that these planets can survive against rapid orbital decay. This is consistent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Dong Lai

Improving upon our purely dynamical work, we present three-dimensional simulations of the atmospheric circulation on Earth-like (exo)planets and hot Jupiters using the GFDL-Princeton Flexible Modeling System (FMS). As the first steps away…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Kevin Heng , Dargan M. W. Frierson , Peter J. Phillipps

The tidal disruption of planets by their host stars represents a growing area of interest in transient astronomy, offering insights into the final stages of planetary system evolution. We model the hydrodynamic evolution and predict the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Matías Montesinos , Sergei Nayakshin , Vardan Elbakyan , Zhen Guo , Mario Sucerquia , Amelia Bayo , Zhaohuan Zhu

Both core accretion and disk instability appear to be required as formation mechanisms in order to explain the entire range of giant planets found in extrasolar planetary systems. Disk instability is based on the formation of clumps in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alan P. Boss

High-eccentricity migration is an important channel for the formation of hot Jupiters (HJs). In particular, Lidov-Kozai (LK) oscillations of orbital eccentricity/inclination induced by a distant planetary or stellar companion, combined with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Michelle Vick , Dong Lai , Kassandra R. Anderson

Stars with hot Jupiters sometimes have high obliquities, which are possible relics of hot Jupiter formation. Based on the characteristics of systems with and without high obliquities, it is suspected that obliquities are tidally damped when…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Christopher Spalding , Joshua N. Winn

We perform numerical simulations of the TRAPPIST-1 system of seven exoplanets orbiting a nearby M dwarf, starting with a previously suggested stable configuration. The long-term stability of this configuration is confirmed, but the motion…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-01 Valeri V. Makarov , Ciprian T. Berghea , Michael Efroimsky

Of the over 800 exoplanets detected to date, over half are on non-circular orbits, with eccentricities as high as 0.93. Such orbits lead to time-variable stellar heating, which has implications for the planet's atmospheric dynamical regime.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tiffany Kataria , Adam P. Showman , Nikole K. Lewis , Jonathan J. Fortney , Mark S. Marley , Richard S. Freedman

The rotation of a planet located in the habitable zone of a solar-type star can be reversed by a smooth process associated with the formation of its atmosphere and the increase of stronger torques, opposite to normal tidal torques. Our…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 Sylvio Ferraz-Mello

Thermal atmospheric tides have a strong impact on the rotation of terrestrial planets. They can lock these planets into an asynchronous rotation state of equilibrium. We aim at characterizing the dependence of the tidal torque resulting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Pierre Auclair-Desrotour , Jérémy Leconte , Cyril Mergny

Understanding the physics of planetary magma oceans has been the subject of growing efforts, in light of the increasing abundance of Solar system samples and extrasolar surveys. A rocky planet harboring such an ocean is likely to interact…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 Mohammad Farhat , Pierre Auclair-Desrotour , Gwenaël Boué , Tim Lichtenberg , Jacques Laskar

Tidal dissipation in star-planet systems occurs through various mechanisms, including the precessional instability. This is an instability of laminar flows (``Poincar\'{e} flows") forced by axial precession of a rotating, oblate, spin-orbit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Nils B. de Vries , Adrian J. Barker , Rainer Hollerbach

Of the fourteen transiting extrasolar planetary systems for which radii have been measured, at least three appear to be considerably larger than theoretical estimates suggest. It has been proposed by Bodenheimer, Lin & Mardling that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rosemary A. Mardling

We discuss the linear response to low-frequency tidal forcing of fluid bodies that are slowly and uniformly rotating, are neutrally stratified and may contain a solid or fluid core. This problem may be regarded as a simplified model of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Gordon I. Ogilvie

With the discovery of TRAPPIST-1 and its seven planets within 0.06 au, the correct treatment of tidal interactions is becoming necessary. The eccentricity, rotation, and obliquity of the planets of TRAPPIST-1 are indeed the result of tidal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Emeline Bolmont , Sylvain N. Breton , Gabriel Tobie , Caroline Dumoulin , Stéphane Mathis , Olivier Grasset

Free-floating planets (FFPs) can result from dynamical scattering processes happening in the first few million years of a planetary system's life. Several models predict the possibility, for these isolated planetary-mass objects, to retain…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Giulia Roccetti , Tommaso Grassi , Barbara Ercolano , Karan Molaverdikhani , Aurélien Crida , Dieter Braun , Andrea Chiavassa