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All circumbinary planets (CBPs) currently detected are located in almost co-planar configurations with respect to the binary orbit, due to the fact that CBPs with higher misalignment are more difficult to detect. However, observations of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Hanlun Lei , Yanxiang Gong

We analyze a tilt instability of the orbit of an outer planet in a two planet circumbinary system that we recently reported. The binary is on an eccentric orbit and the inner circumbinary planet is on a circular polar orbit that causes the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-17 Stephen H. Lubow , Anna C. Childs , Rebecca G. Martin

To better understand the orbital dynamics of exoplanets around close binary stars, i.e., circumbinary planets (CBPs), we applied techniques from dynamical systems theory to a physically motivated set of solutions in the Circular Restricted…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Andrew Langford , Lauren M. Weiss

This paper constructs an analytic form for a triaxial potential that describes the dynamics of a wide variety of astrophysical systems, including the inner portions of dark matter halos, the central regions of galactic bulges, and young…

In this paper, we use the restricted three body problem in the binary stellar systems, taking photogravitational effects of both the stars. The aim of this study is to investigate the motion of the infinitesimal mass in the vicinity of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Rajib Mia , Badam Singh Kushvah

Context: Numerous theoretical studies of the stellar dynamics of triple systems have been carried out, but fewer purely empirical studies that have addressed planetary orbits within these systems. Most of these empirical studies have been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-21 F. Busetti , H. Beust , C. Harley

This study examines the dynamics of the third body in an elliptic restricted three-body problem (ERTBP) framework, taking into account perturbations from radiation pressure, oblateness, and elongation of the primary bodies, as well as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 M. B. Saputra , H. S. Ramadhan , Ibnu N. Huda , Leonardus B. Putra

We investigate the secular dynamics of three-body circumbinary systems under the effect of tides. We use the octupolar non-restricted approximation for the orbital interactions, general relativity corrections, the quadrupolar approximation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-12 Alexandre C. M. Correia , Gwenaël Boué , Jacques Laskar

The current orbital geometries of exoplanet systems offer a fossilized record of the systems' dynamical histories. A particularly rich set of dynamical mechanisms is available to exoplanets residing in multi-star systems, which may have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-10 Malena Rice , Konstantin Gerbig , Andrew Vanderburg

A simple question of celestial mechanics is investigated: in what regions of phase space near a binary system can planets persist for long times? The planets are taken to be test particles moving in the field of an eccentric binary system.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Matthew Holman , Paul Wiegert

Motivated by the dynamics of resonance capture, we study numerically the coorbital resonance for inclination180 >=I>=0 in the circular restricted three-body problem. We examine the similarities and differences between planar and three…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Maria Helena M. Morais , Fathi Namouni

In this new era of gravitational wave astrophysics, observations have indicated the likely existence of black holes with significant spin. In order to better understand the potential imprint orbital dynamics have on the multi-messenger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-22 Martin D. Strong , Michael Crescimanno

In this review, we describe the physical processes driving the dynamical evolution of binary stars, namely the circularization of the orbit and the synchronization of their spin and orbital rotation. We also discuss the possible role of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michel Rieutord

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

Orbital inclination is crucial in determining the mass of the binary. The astrometric excess noise contain the orbital motion information, which can be used to constrain the inclination. We aim to constrain the orbital inclination of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Shilong Liao , Ye Ding , Shangyu Wen , Zhaoxiang Qi , Qiqi Wu

In the present article, we present a galactic gravitational model of three degrees of freedom, in order to investigate and reveal the behavior of orbits in a binary quasar system. The two quasars are hosted in a pair of interacting disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-02-18 Euaggelos E. Zotos

Planets are observed to orbit the component star(s) of stellar binary systems on so-called circumprimary or circumsecondary orbits, as well as around the entire binary system on so-called circumbinary orbits. Depending on the orbital…

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

The orbital evolution and stability of planetary systems with interaction from the belts is studied using the standard phase-plane analysis. In addition to the fixed point which corresponds to the Keplerian orbit, there are other fixed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ing-Guey Jiang , Li-Chin Yeh

We considered the problem of stability for planets of finite mass in binary star systems. We selected a huge set of initial conditions for planetary orbits of the S-type, to perform high precision and very extended in time integrations. For…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta , Giovanni De Cesare , Alessio Marino