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Gravitational waves provide us with a new window into our Universe, and have already been used to place strong constrains on the existence of light scalar fields, which are a common feature in many alternative theories of gravity. However,…

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Asteroid binaries found amongst the Near-Earth objects are believed to have formed from rotational fission. In this paper, we aim to study the dynamical evolution of asteroid systems the moment after fission. The initial condition is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Alex Ho , Margrethe Wold , Mohammad Poursina , John T. Conway

Short-period binary star systems dissipate orbital energy through tidal interactions that lead to tighter, more circular orbits. When at least one star in a binary has evolved off of the main sequence, orbital circularization occurs for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Jeremy Goodman

The angle between the stellar spin and the planetary orbit axes (spin-orbit angle) is supposed to carry valuable information on the initial condition of the planet formation and the subsequent migration history. Indeed current observations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yuxin Xue , Yasushi Suto , Atsushi Taruya , Teruyuki Hirano , Yuka Fujii , Kento Masuda

We examine the effects of spin-orbit and spin-spin coupling on the inspiral of a coalescing binary system of spinning compact objects and on the gravitational radiation emitted therefrom. Using a formalism developed by Blanchet, Damour, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Lawrence E. Kidder

Context. The presence of a stellar companion can strongly influence the architecture and long-term stability of planetary systems. Motivated by the discovery of exoplanets exhibiting extremely high eccentricities (e >= 0.8) in systems with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Milenne Ávila-Bravo , Carolina Charalambous , Claudia Aguilera-Gómez

Many of the observed spin--orbit alignment properties of exoplanets can be explained in the context of the primordial disk misalignment model, in which an initially aligned protoplanetary disk is torqued by a distant stellar companion on a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Titos Matsakos , Arieh Königl

The sets of the synchronous equations are derived from the sets of non-synchronous equations The analytical solutions are given by solving the set of differential equations. The results of the evolutionary tendency of the orbit-spin are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Lin-Sen Li

Compact binaries are the most promising source for the advanced gravitational wave detectors, which will start operating this year. The influence of spin on the binary evolution is an important consequence of general relativity and can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-28 Jan Steinhoff

Changes in planetary obliquity, or axial tilt, influence the climates on Earth-like planets. In the solar system, the Earth's obliquity is stabilized due to interactions with our moon and the resulting {small amplitude variations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-04 Billy Quarles , Gongjie Li , Jack J. Lissauer

Planet-planet scattering best explains the eccentricity distribution of extrasolar giant planets. Past literature showed that the orbits of planets evolve due to planet-planet scattering. This work studies the spin evolution of planets in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Yu-Cian Hong , Dong Lai , Jonathan I. Lunine , Philip D. Nicholson

Beyond point mass effects various contributions add to the radiative evolution of compact binaries. We present all the terms up to the second post-Newtonian order contributing to the rate of increase of gravitational wave frequency and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Mátyás Vasúth , Balázs Mikóczi

The recent discoveries of circumbinary planets by $\it Kepler$ raise questions for contemporary planet formation models. Understanding how these planets form requires characterizing their formation environment, the circumbinary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-20 David P. Fleming , Thomas R. Quinn

A significant proportion of exoplanets have been detected with highly tilted or even polar orbits relative to their host stars' equatorial planes. These unusual orbital configurations are often linked to post-disk secular interactions among…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Tao Fu , Yue Wang

Many Sun-like stars are observed to host close-in super-Earths (SEs) as part of a multi-planetary system. In such a system, the spin of the SE evolves due to spin-orbit resonances and tidal dissipation. In the absence of tides, the planet's…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-18 Yubo Su , Dong Lai

The presence of strong large-scale stable magnetic fields in a significant portion of early-type stars, white dwarfs, and neutron stars is well established. Despite this, the origins of these fields remain unresolved, with leading…

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

Star-planet interactions play, among other things, a crucial role in planetary orbital configurations by circularizing orbits, aligning the star and planet spin and synchronizing stellar rotation with orbital motions. This is especially…

We analyse the conservative evolution of spinning compact binaries to second post-Newtonian (2PN) order accuracy, with leading order spin-orbit, spin-spin and mass quadrupole-monopole contributions included. As a main result we derive a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-04 László Árpád Gergely , Zoltán Keresztes

The presence of a co-orbital companion induces the splitting of the well known Keplerian spin-orbit resonances. It leads to chaotic rotation when those resonances overlap.

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Adrien Leleu , Philippe Robutel , A. C. M. Correia