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In binary systems, studying tidal interactions is key to understanding the evolution of binary populations. The primary dissipation process occurring in stars with radiative envelopes is believed to be radiative damping of high-radial-order…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 L. Fellay , M. -A. Dupret , P. A. Kołaczek-Szymański

Quantifying tidal effects on giant planets has recently made significant advances, thanks in particular to the Cassini space probe. During its thirteen-year orbit around Saturn, numerous measurements from different instruments made it…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Valéry Lainey , Marco Zannoni , Vincent Robert , Tristan Guillot

Astrophysical fluid bodies that orbit close to one another induce tidal distortions and flows that are subject to dissipative processes. The spin and orbital motions undergo a coupled evolution over astronomical timescales, which is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Gordon I. Ogilvie

Tidal interaction governs the redistribution of angular momentum in close binary stars and planetary systems and determines the systems evolution towards the possible equilibrium state. Turbulent friction acting on the equilibrium tide in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 P. G. Beck , S. Mathis , F. Gallet , C. Charbonnel , M. Benbakoura , R. A. García , J. -D. do Nascimento

Gas giant planets are differentially rotating magnetic objects that have strong and complex interactions with their environment. In our Solar system, they interact with their numerous moons while exoplanets with very short orbital periods…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Hachem Dhouib , Clément Baruteau , Stéphane Mathis , Florian Debras , Aurélie Astoul , Michel Rieutord

This paper deals with the application of the creep tide theory (Ferraz-Mello, CeMDA 116, 109, 2013) to the rotation of close-in satellites, Mercury, close-in exoplanets and their host stars. The solutions show two extreme cases: close-in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-31 Sylvio Ferraz-Mello

Tidal dissipation in stars is one of the key physical mechanisms that drive the evolution of binary and multiple stars. As in the Earth oceans, it corresponds to the resonant excitation of their eigenmodes of oscillation and their damping.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Auclair-Desrotour , S. Mathis , C. Le Poncin-Lafitte

Titan's ice shell floats on top of a global ocean revealed by the large tidal Love number $k_2 = 0.616\pm0.067$ registered by Cassini. The Cassini observation exceeds the predicted $k_2$ by one order of magnitude in the absence of an ocean,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-12 Benjamin Idini , Francis Nimmo

We provide an 'effective theory' of tidal dissipation in extrasolar planet systems by empirically calibrating a model for the equilibrium tide. The model is valid to high order in eccentricity and parameterised by two constants of bulk…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Brad Hansen

With recent advances in the modeling of the solar system giant planets, rapid progress has been made in understanding the remaining questions pertaining to their formation and evolution. However, this progress has largely neglected the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Yubo Su , Janosz W. Dewberry , Roberto Tejada Arevalo , Ankan Sur , Adam Burrows

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

We study how stably stratified or semi-convective layers alter the tidal dissipation rates associated with the generation of internal waves in planetary interiors. We consider if these layers could contribute to the high rates of tidal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Christina M. Pontin , Adrian J. Barker , Rainer Hollerbach

We study how stably stratified or semi-convective layers alter tidal dissipation rates associated with the generation of inertial, gravito-inertial, interfacial and surface gravity waves in rotating giant planets. We explore scenarios in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Christina M. Pontin , Adrian J. Barker , Rainer Hollerbach

We study systems of close orbiting planets evolving under the influence of tidal circularization. It is supposed that a commensurability forms through the action of disk induced migration and orbital circularization. After the system enters…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. C. B. Papaloizou

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 2014-10-21 M. Guenel , S. Mathis , F. Remus

Saturn's C ring contains multiple structures that appear to be density waves driven by time-variable anomalies in the planet's gravitational field. Semi-empirical extensions of density wave theory enable the observed wave properties to be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-24 M. M. Hedman , P. D. Nicholson , M. El Moutamid , S. Smotherman

There is an intriguing and growing population of Neptune-sized planets with stellar obliquities near $\sim90^{\circ}$. One previously proposed formation pathway is a disk-driven resonance, which can take place at the end stages of planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-04 Emma Louden , Sarah Millholland

This paper presents one analytical tidal theory for a viscoelastic multi-layered body with an arbitrary number of homogeneous layers. Starting with the static equilibrium figure, modified to include tide and differential rotation, and using…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 Hugo A. Folonier , Sylvio Ferraz-Mello

Tidal dissipation in star-planet systems occurs through various mechanisms, including the precessional instability. This is an instability of laminar flows (``Poincar\'{e} flows") forced by axial precession of a rotating, oblate, spin-orbit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Nils B. de Vries , Adrian J. Barker , Rainer Hollerbach

We perform a stability analysis of a tidally excited nonlinear internal gravity wave near the centre of a solar-type star in two-dimensions. The motivation is to understand the tidal interaction between short-period planets and their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Adrian Barker , Gordon Ogilvie