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We perform numerical integrations of four-body (star, planet, planet, satellite) systems to investigate the stability of satellites in planetary Systems with Tightly-packed Inner Planets (STIPs). We find that the majority of closely-spaced…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Matthew J. Payne , Katherine M. Deck , Matthew J. Holman , Hagai B. Perets

(Abridged)We numerically investigated the dynamical architecture of 47 UMa with the planetary configuration of the best-fit orbital solutions by Fischer et al. We systematically studied the existence of Earth-like planets in the region 0.05…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jianghui Ji , Lin Liu , H. Kinoshita , Guangyu Li

In the near future there will be launched space missions (e.g. COROT, KEPLER), designed to detect Earth-like extrasolar planets. The orbital elements of these (still hypothetic) planets will contain some uncertainties, that can only be…

Space Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zs. Sándor , Á. Süli , B. Érdi , E. Pilat-Lohinger , R. Dvorak

Hundreds of giant planets have been discovered so far and the quest of exo-Earths in giant planet systems has become intriguing. In this work, we aim to address the question of the possible long-term coexistence of a terrestrial companion…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Kyriaki I. Antoniadou , Anne-Sophie Libert

In this work is investigated the possibility of close-binary star systems having Earth-size planets within their habitable zones. First, we selected all known close-binary systems with confirmed planets (totaling 22 systems) to calculate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-27 G. O. Barbosa , O. C. Winter , A. Amarante , A. Izidoro , R. C. Domingos , E. E. N. Macau

We have numerically explored the stable planetary geometry for the multiple systems involved in a 2:1 mean motion resonance, and herein we mainly study the HD 82943 system by employing two sets of the orbital parameters (Mayor et al. 2004;…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ji Jianghui , H. Kinoshita , Liu Lin , H. Nakai , Li Guangyu

As the number of potential exomoon candidates grows, there is a heightened motivation of pursing orbital stability analyses. In this work, we provide an in-depth investigation into 4-body systems, consisting of a star, planet, moon, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Shaan D. Patel , Billy Quarles , Manfred Cuntz

The observed wide eccentricity distribution of extrasolar giant planets is thought to be the result of dynamical instabilities and gravitational scattering among planets. Previously, it has been assumed that the orbits in giant planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Elena Lega , Alessandro Morbidelli , David Nesvorný

The continuing exploration of neighboring planetary systems is providing deeper insights into the relative prevalence of various system architectures, particularly with respect to the solar system. However, a full assessment of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Stephen R. Kane , Jennifer A. Burt

Exoplanetary systems exhibit a broad range of architectures which, in turn, enable a variety of dynamical environments. Many of the known planetary systems do not transit the host star, and so we measure the minimum masses of their planets,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-29 Stephen R. Kane

Understanding the long-term evolution of hierarchical triple systems is challenging due to its inherent chaotic nature, and it requires computationally expensive simulations. Here we propose a convolutional neural network model to predict…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Florian Lalande , Alessandro Alberto Trani

We have shown that Earth-mass planets could survive in variously restricted regions of the habitable zones (HZs) of most of a sample of nine of the 102 main-sequence exoplanetary systems confirmed by 25 September 2003. In a preliminary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. W. Jones , D. R. Underwood , P. N. Sleep

We have shown that Earth-mass planets could survive in variously restricted regions of the habitable zones (HZs) of most of a sample of nine of the 102 main-sequence exoplanetary systems confirmed by 19 November 2003. In a preliminary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. W. Jones , D. R. Underwood , P. N. Sleep

Multi-planet systems around evolved stars are of interest to trace the evolution of planetary systems into the post-main sequence phase. HD 47366, an evolved intermediate mass star, hosts two giant planets on moderately eccentric orbits.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 J. P. Marshall , R. A. Wittenmyer , J. Horner , J. Clark , M. W. Mengel , T. C. Hinse , M. T. Agnew , S. R. Kane

In 2010 the first planet was discovered around star HD 34445. Recently, another five planets were announced orbiting the same star. It is a rather dense multi-planet system with some of its planets having separations of fractions of an au…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Nikolaos Georgakarakos , Ian Dobbs-Dixon

Approximately 60 percent of all stars in the solar neighbourhood (up to 80 percent in our Milky Way) are members of binary or multiple star systems. This fact led to the speculations that many more planets may exist in binary systems than…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Richard Schwarz , Barbara Funk , Ákos Bazsó

Stability of planetary orbits around the GJ 832 star system, which contains inner (GJ 832c) and outer (GJ 832b) planets, is investigated numerically and a detailed phase-space analysis is performed. A special emphasis is given to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 S. Satyal , J. Griffith , Z. E. Musielak

This paper considers secular interactions within multi-planet systems. In particular we consider dynamical evolution of known planetary systems resulting from an additional hypothetical planet on an eccentric orbit. We start with an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Matthew J. Read , Mark C. Wyatt

We study the orbital architecture of multi-planet systems detected by the Kepler transit mission using N-body simulations, focusing on the orbital spacing between adjacent planets in systems showing four or more transiting planets. We find…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-01 Bonan Pu , Yanqin Wu

We present a detailed analysis of the orbital stability of the HD 181433 planetary system, finding it to exhibit strong dynamical instability across a wide range of orbital eccentricities, semi-major axes, and mutual inclinations. We also…