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We study tidal dissipation in stars with masses in the range $0.1-1.6 M_\odot$ throughout their evolution, including turbulent effective viscosity acting on equilibrium tides and inertial waves in convection zones, and internal gravity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Adrian J. Barker

Context. The Juno spacecraft has obtained highly accurate tidal Love numbers, which provide important constraints on the tidal response and interior structure of Jupiter. Aims. In order to exploit these observations, it is necessary to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Yufeng Lin

Tidal dissipation in planetary interiors is one of the key physical mechanisms that drive the evolution of star-planet and planet-moon systems. New constraints are now obtained both in the Solar and exoplanetary systems. Tidal dissipation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-02 Mathieu Guenel , Stéphane Mathis , Françoise Remus

This paper deals with a new formulation of the creep tide theory (Ferraz-Mello, Cel. Mech. Dyn. Astron. {\bf 116}, 109, 2013 $-$ Paper I) and with the tidal dissipation predicted by the theory in the case of stiff bodies whose rotation is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-31 Hugo A. Folonier , Sylvio Ferraz-Mello , Eduardo Andrade-Ines

Io's tidally driven global volcanism indicates widespread partial melting in its mantle. How this melt participates in the interior dynamics, and, in particular, the role it plays in tidal dissipation, is poorly understood. We model Io's…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 Hamish C. F. C. Hay , Ian Hewitt , Marc Rovira-Navarro , Richard F. Katz

Solid body tides provide key information on the interior structure, evolution, and origin of the planetary bodies. Our Solar system harbours a very diverse population of planetary bodies, including those composed of rock, ice, gas, or a…

Atmospheric thermal tides arise from the diurnal contrast in stellar irradiation. They exert a significant influence on the long-term rotational evolution of rocky planets because they can accelerate the planetary spin, thereby…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-12 Pierre Auclair-Desrotour , Mohammad Farhat , Gwenaël Boué , Jacques Laskar

Europa has been spotted to have water outgassing activities by the space and ground-based telescopes as well as reanalysis of the Galileo data (Roth et al. 2014; Sparks et al. 2016, 2017; Paganini et al. 2020; Jia et al. 2018; Arnold et al.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Wei-Ling Tseng , Ian-Lin Lai , Wing-Huen Ip , Hsiang-Wen Hsu , Jong-Shinn Wu

Tidal heating is expected to impart significant, non-spherically-symmetric structure to Jupiter's volcanic moon Io. A signature of spatially variable tidal heating is generally sought in observations of surface heat fluxes or volcanic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Dan C Spencer , Richard F Katz , Ian J Hewitt

Computing the tidal deformations of Mars, we explored various Mars internal structures by examining profiles that include or exclude a basal molten layer within the mantle and a solid inner core. By assessing their compatibility with a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-12 Alex Guinard , Agnes Fienga , Anthony Memin , Clement Ganino

Magnetic investigations of icy moons have provided some of the most compelling evidence available confirming the presence of subsurface, liquid water oceans. In the exploration of ocean moons, especially Europa, there is a need for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Marshall J. Styczinski , Steven D. Vance , Erika M. Harnett , Corey J. Cochrane

Parameterised by the Love number $k_2$ and the tidal quality factor $Q$, and inferred from lunar laser ranging (LLR), tidal dissipation in the Moon follows an unexpected frequency dependence often interpreted as evidence for a highly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Michaela Walterová , Marie Běhounková , Michael Efroimsky

In close two-body astrophysical systems, such as binary stars or Hot Jupiter systems, tidal interactions often drive dynamical evolution on secular timescales. Many host stars and presumably giant gaseous planets feature a convective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-20 A. Astoul , A. J. Barker

Past efforts to interrogate the mantle's contribution to Earth's topography suffer from inadequate in-situ measurements of true bathymetry and the involvement of an empirical plate model whose presumed lithospheric density profile…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-06-27 Adam J. Stewart , Yanchong Li , Zebin Cao , Lijun Liu

The effects of the hydration mechanism on continental crust recycling are analyzed through a 2D finite element thermo-mechanical model. Oceanic slab dehydration and consequent mantle wedge hydration are implemented using a dynamic method.…

Geophysics · Physics 2011-06-24 Manuel Roda , Anna Maria Marotta , Maria Iole Spalla

Physical processing of Europan surface water ice by thermal relaxation, charged particle bombardment, and possible cryovolcanic activity can alter the percentage of the crystalline form of water ice compared to that of the amorphous form of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-16 Jodi R. Berdis , Murthy S. Gudipati , James R. Murphy , Nancy J. Chanover

Saturn raises a time-dependent tide on its small moon Enceladus, due to the eccentricity of the orbit. As shown in a companion paper (Goldreich et al.), the resulting tidal heating drives Enceladus into a limit cycle, in which its…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Yoram Lithwick

Recent observations and theoretical progress made about the history of the Earth-Moon system suggest that tidal dissipation in oceans primarily drives the long term evolution of orbital systems hosting ocean planets. Particularly, they…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-11 Pierre Auclair-Desrotour , Mohammad Farhat , Gwenaël Boué , Mickaël Gastineau , Jacques Laskar

Tidal interactions are important in driving spin and orbital evolution in planetary and stellar binary systems, but the fluid dynamical mechanisms responsible remain incompletely understood. One key mechanism is the interaction between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-10 Craig D. Duguid , Adrian J. Barker , Chris A. Jones

This study analyzes secular dynamics using averaged equations that detail tidal effects on the motion of two extended bodies in Keplerian orbits. It introduces formulas for energy dissipation within each body of a binary system. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-19 Clodoaldo Ragazzo , Lucas Ruiz dos Santos