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We review the models and results of simulations of self-gravitating, gaseous protoplanetary disks in binary star systems. These models have been calculated by three different groups with three different computational methods, two…

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Binary stars form from the same parent molecular cloud and thus have the same chemical composition. Forming planets take building material (solids) away from the surrounding protoplanetary disc. Assuming that the disc's accretion onto the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 Bertram Bitsch , Rebecca Forsberg , Fan Liu , Anders Johansen

Understanding the origin of planets that have formed in binary stars is fundamental to constrain theories of binary and planet formation. The planet occurrence rate in binaries with a separation $\lesssim 50$ AU is only $\sim$ one third…

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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

Dozens of planets and brown dwarfs are known to orbit one component of tight stellar binaries ($a_{\rm bin} \lesssim 20$ au), despite circumstellar discs in such systems being truncated to radii of only $\sim (0.2-5)$ au. This presents a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Luyao Zhang , Sergei Nayakshin , Clement Baruteau , Philippe Thebault , Eduard I. Vorobyov

We present results from the first hydrodynamical star formation calculation to demonstrate that close binary stellar systems (separations $\lsim 10$ AU) need not be formed directly by fragmentation. Instead, a high frequency of close…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Matthew R. Bate , Ian A. Bonnell , Volker Bromm

Many recent observational studies have concluded that planetary systems commonly exist in multiple-star systems. At least ~20% of the known extrasolar planetary systems are associated with one or more stellar companions. The orbits of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Genya Takeda , Ryosuke Kita , Frederic A. Rasio

Planet formation occurs around a wide range of stellar masses and stellar system architectures. An improved understanding of the formation process can be achieved by studying it across the full parameter space, particularly toward the…

Observations of extrasolar planets reveal that planets can be found in close binary systems, where the semi-major axis of the binary orbit is less than 20 AU. The existence of these planets challenges planet formation theory, because the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. -J. Paardekooper , P. Thebault , G. Mellema

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

More than half of Solar-type stars are found in binary systems. The numbers of exoplanets within binary systems in s-type orbits now numbers over 700. However, whilst the numbers have increased, there still does not exist a global model of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Gavin A. L. Coleman

An accretion disk can be formed around a secondary star in a binary system when the primary companion leaves the Main sequence and starts to lose mass at an enhanced rate. We study the accretion disk evolution and planetary migration in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-05 Alexey D. Nekrasov , Viacheslav V. Zhuravlev , Sergei B. Popov

With n-body simulations, we model terrestrial circumbinary planet (CBP) formation with an initial surface density profile motivated by hydrodynamic circumbinary gas disc simulations. The binary plays an important role in shaping the initial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Anna C. Childs , Rebecca G. Martin

Many massive objects have been found in the outer region of the Solar system. How they were formed and evolved has not been well understood, although there have been intensive studies on accretion process of terrestrial planets. One of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Junko D. Kominami , Junichiro Makino

The formation of massive stars in close binary systems is complicated due to their high radiation pressure, the crowded environment and the expected minimum separation for fragmentation being many times greater than the orbital separation.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ian A. Bonnell

Many extrasolar planets follow orbits that differ from the nearly coplanar and circular orbits found in our solar system; orbits may be eccentric or inclined with respect to the host star's equator, and the population of giant planets…

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Nearly half of the exoplanets found within binary star systems reside in very wide binaries with average stellar separations beyond 1,000 AU (1 AU being the Earth-Sun distance), yet the influence of such distant binary companions on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Nathan A. Kaib , Sean N. Raymond , Martin Duncan

We present radiation hydrodynamic simulations in which binary planets form by close encounters in a system of several super-Earth embryos. The embryos are embedded in a protoplanetary disk consisting of gas and pebbles and evolve in a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Ondřej Chrenko , Miroslav Brož , David Nesvorný

With the increasing number of detected exoplanet samples, the statistical properties of planetary systems have become much clearer. In this review, we summarize the major statistics that have been revealed mainly by radial velocity and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. -L. Zhou , J. -W. Xie , H. -G. Liu , H. Zhang , Y. -S. Sun

Dusty primordial disks surrounding young low-mass stars are revealing tracers of stellar and planetary formation. The evolution and lifetime of these disks define the boundary conditions of the mechanisms of planet formation. Stellar…

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