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The presence of highly eccentric extrasolar planets in binary stellar systems suggests that the Kozai effect has played an important role in shaping their dynamical architectures. However, the formation of planets in inclined binary systems…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Konstantin Batygin , Alessandro Morbidelli , Kleomenis Tsiganis

Observations of circumstellar disks around stars as a function of stellar properties such as mass, metallicity, multiplicity, and age, provide constraints on theories concerning the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Utilizing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Michael R. Meyer

Planets that revolve around a binary pair of stars are known as circumbinary planets. The orbital motion of the stars around their center of mass causes a periodic variation in the total instellation incident upon a circumbinary planet.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Jacob Haqq-Misra , Eric T. Wolf , William F. Welsh , Ravi Kumar Kopparapu , Veselin Kostov , Stephen R. Kane

We study planetesimal evolution in circumbinary disks, focusing on the three systems Kepler 16, 34 and 35 where planets have been discovered recently. We show that for circumbinary planetesimals, in addition to secular forcing,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sijme-Jan Paardekooper , Zoe M. Leinhardt , Philippe Thebault , Clement Baruteau

Most extrasolar planets currently known were discovered by means of an indirect method that measures the stellar wobble caused by the planet. We previously studied a triple system composed of a star and a nearby binary on circular coplanar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 M. H. M. Morais , A. C. M. Correia

Wide-field surveys for transiting planets, such as the NASA Kepler and TESS missions, are usually conducted without knowing which stars have binary companions. Unresolved and unrecognized binaries give rise to systematic errors in planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 L. G. Bouma , Kento Masuda , J. N. Winn

The discovery of planets in close orbits around binary stars raises questions about their formation. It is believed that these planets formed in the outer regions of the disc and then migrated through planet-disc interaction to their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-17 Daniel Thun , Wilhelm Kley

To date a dozen transiting "Tatooines" or circumbinary planets (CBPs) have been discovered, by eye, in the data from the Kepler mission; by contrast, thousands of confirmed circumstellar planets orbiting around single stars have been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Diana Windemuth , Eric Agol , Josh Carter , Eric B. Ford , Nader Haghighipour , Jerome A. Orosz , William F. Welsh

We investigate the orbital stability of a tilted circumbinary planetary system with three giant planets. The planets are spaced by a constant number ($\Delta$) of mutual Hill radii in the range $\Delta=3.4-12.0$ such that the period ratio…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Cheng Chen , Rebecca G. Martin , C. J. Nixon

A critical step toward the emergence of planets in a protoplanetary disk consists in accretion of planetesimals, bodies 1-1000 km in size, from smaller disk constituents. This process is poorly understood partly because we lack good…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-28 David Nesvorny , Rixin Li , Andrew N. Youdin , Jacob B. Simon , William M. Grundy

Over two decades of exoplanetology have yielded thousands of discoveries, yet some types of systems are yet to be observed. Circumstellar planets around one star in a binary have been found, but not for tight binaries (< 5 AU).…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 David V. Martin

We review recent works on the dynamics of circumbinary accretion, including time variability, angular momentum transfer between the disk and the binary, and the secular evolution of accreting binaries. These dynamics can impact stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-26 Dong Lai , Diego J. Muñoz

We explore the evolution of a giant planet that interacts with a circumbinary disc that orbits a misaligned binary by means of analytic models and hydrodynamical simulations. Planet-disc interactions lead to mutual tilt oscillations between…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-10 Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

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

The majority of binary star systems that host exoplanets will spend the first portion of their lives within a star-forming cluster that may drive dynamical evolution of the binary-planet system. We perform numerical simulations of S-type…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Elizabeth A. Ellithorpe , Nathan A. Kaib

In the near-Earth asteroid population, binary and triple systems have been discovered with mutual orbits that have significant eccentricities as well as large semi-major axes. All known systems with eccentric orbits and all widely-separated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Julia Fang , Jean-Luc Margot

Planet Planet scattering is a leading dynamical mechanism invoked to explain the present orbital distribution of exoplanets. Many stars belong to binary systems, therefore it is important to understand how this mechanism works in presence…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Francesco Marzari , Makiko Nagasawa , Krzyszof Goździewski

We study the orbital stability of a non-zero mass, close-in circular orbit planet around an eccentric orbit binary for various initial values of the binary eccentricity, binary mass fraction, planet mass, planet semi--major axis, and planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Cheng Chen , Stephen H. Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin

Many exoplanets are discovered in binary star systems in internal or in circumbinary orbits. Whether the planet can be habitable or not depends on the possibility to maintain liquid water on its surface, and therefore on the luminosity of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 G. De Cesare , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta

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…