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Young stars are mostly found in dense stellar environments, and even our own Solar system may have formed in a star cluster. Here, we numerically explore the evolution of planetary systems similar to our own Solar system in star clusters.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-27 Francesco Flammini Dotti , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Maxwell Xu Cai , Rainer Spurzem

Most stars, perhaps even all stars, form in crowded stellar environments. Such star forming regions typically dissolve within ten million years, while others remain bound as stellar groupings for hundreds of millions to billions of years,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-03 Francesco Flammini Dotti , Maxwell Xu Cai , Rainer Spurzem , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven

The majority of stars form in star clusters and many are thought to have planetary companions. We demonstrate that multi-planet systems are prone to instabilities as a result of frequent stellar encounters in these star clusters much more…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 W. Hao , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , R. Spurzem

Thousands of confirmed and candidate exoplanets have been identified in recent years. Consequently, theoretical research on the formation and dynamical evolution of planetary systems has seen a boost, and the processes of planet-planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-06 M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Qi Shu , Maxwell Xu Cai , Rainer Spurzem

Despite the discovery of thousands of exoplanets in recent years, the number of known exoplanets in star clusters remains tiny. This may be a consequence of close stellar encounters perturbing the dynamical evolution of planetary systems in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Katja Stock , Maxwell X. Cai , Rainer Spurzem , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Simon Portegies Zwart

At least 10-15% of nearby sun-like stars have known Jupiter-mass planets. In contrast, very few planets are found in mature open and globular clusters such as the Hyades and 47 Tuc. We explore here the possibility that this dichotomy is due…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-12 R. Spurzem , M. Giersz , D. C. Heggie , D. N. C. Lin

The ejection of planets by the instability of planetary systems is a potential source of free-floating planets. We numerically simulate multi-planet systems to study the evolution process, the properties of surviving systems, and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Ruocheng Zhai , Man Hoi Lee , Tianjun Gan , Shude Mao

Most stars and thus most planetary systems do not form in isolation. The larger star-forming environment affects protoplanetary disks in multiple ways: gravitational interactions with other stars truncate disks and alter the architectures…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-09 Megan Reiter , Richrd J. Parker

Although debris disks may be common in exoplanet systems, only a few systems are known in which debris disks and planets coexist. Planets and the surrounding stellar population can have a significant impact on debris disk evolution. Here we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Kai Wu , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Rainer Spurzem , Xiaoying Pang

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 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

We perform a simulation using the Astrophysical Multipurpose Software Environment of the Orion Trapezium star cluster in which the evolution of the stars and the dynamics of planetary systems are taken into account. The initial conditions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Arjen van Elteren , Simon Portegies Zwart , Inti Pelupessy , Maxwell Cai , Steve McMillan

Both simulations and observations indicate that stars form in filamentary, hierarchically clustered associations, most of which disperse into their galactic field once feedback destroys their parent clouds. However, during their early…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jonathan M. Craig , Mark R. Krumholz

In the solar neighborhood, where the typical relaxation timescale is larger than the cosmic age, at least 10\% to 15\% of Sun-like stars have planetary systems with Jupiter-mass planets. In contrast, dense star clusters, charactered by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Maxwell Xu Cai , Rainer Spurzem , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven

Due to the high stellar densities in young clusters, planetary systems formed in these environments are likely to have experienced perturbations from encounters with other stars. We carry out direct $N$-body simulations of multi-planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-09 Maxwell Xu Cai , Simon Portegies Zwart , Arjen van Elteren

Discoveries of exoplanets orbiting evolved stars motivate critical examinations of the dynamics of $N$-body systems with mass loss. Multi-planet evolved systems are particularly complex because of the mutual interactions between the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 George Voyatzis , John D. Hadjidemetriou , Dimitri Veras , Harry Varvoglis

Open clusters(OCs) are usually young and suitable for studying the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Hitherto, only four planets have been found with radial velocity measurements in OCs. Meanwhile, a lot of free-floating…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 Hui-Gen Liu , Hui Zhang , Ji-Lin Zhou

Planet formation is generally described in terms of a system containing the host star and a protoplanetary disc, of which the internal properties (e.g. mass and metallicity) determine the properties of the resulting planetary system.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-22 Andrew J. Winter , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Steven N. Longmore , Mélanie Chevance

The discovery of Exoplanetary Systems has challenged some of the theories of planet formation, which assume unperturbed evolution of the host star and its planets. However, in star clusters the interactions with flyby stars and binaries may…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Yi-Han Wang , Rosalba Perna , Nathan W. C. Leigh

We present a stability analysis of a large set of simulated planetary systems of three or more planets based on architectures of multiplanet systems discovered by \textit{Kepler} and \textit{K2}. We propagated 21,400 simulated planetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-11 Kathryn Volk , Renu Malhotra
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