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Migration of planetary systems caused by the action of dissipative forces may lead the planets to be trapped in a resonance. In this work we study the conditions and the dynamics of such resonant trapping. Particularly, we are interested in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 George Voyatzis

Recent observations of Kepler multi-planet systems have revealed a number of systems with planets very close to second-order mean motion resonances (MMRs, with period ratio $1:3$, $3:5$, etc.) We present an analytic study of resonance…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Wenrui Xu , Dong Lai

Mutually misaligned circumbinary planets may form in a warped or broken gas disc or from later planet-planet interactions. With numerical simulations and analytic estimates we explore the dynamics of two circumbinary planets with a large…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Anna C. Childs , Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen Lepp , Stephen H. Lubow , Aaron M. Geller

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…

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

Multi-planet systems detected until now are in most cases characterized by hot-Jupiters close to their central star as well as high eccentricities. As a consequence, from a dynamical point of view, compact multi-planetary systems form a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-03 Julie Gayon , Eric Bois

The observed census of resonant extrasolar planets spans a tantalizing display of orbital architectures, ranging from familiar 2:1 and 3:2 mean-motion commensurabilities to nearly co-orbital configurations characterized by period ratios…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Konstantin Batygin , Alessandro Morbidelli

Many exo-solar systems discovered in the last decade consist of planets orbiting in resonant configurations and consequently, their evolution should show long-term stability. However, due to the mutual planetary interactions a multi-planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-12 George Voyatzis , Kyriaki I. Antoniadou , John D. Hadjidemetriou

Gravitational perturbations in multi-planet systems caused by an accompanying star are the subject of this investigation. Our dynamical model is based on the binary star HD41004 AB where a giant planet orbits HD41004 A. We modify the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Elke Pilat-Lohinger , Akos Bazso , Barbara Funk

The majority of star formation results in binaries or higher multiple systems, and planets in such systems are constrained to a limited range of orbital parameters in order to remain stable against perturbations from stellar companions.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-22 Billy Quarles , Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar , Gongjie Li

The Kepler satellite has discovered a number of transiting planets around close binary stars. These circumbinary systems have highly aligned planetary and binary orbits. In this paper, we explore how the mutual inclination between the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-19 Francois Foucart , Dong Lai

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

Mean-motion resonances (MMRs) form through convergent disc migration of planet pairs, which may be disrupted by dynamical instabilities after protoplanetary disc (PPD) dispersal. This scenario is supported by recent analysis of TESS data…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Yi-Xian Chen , Yinhao Wu , Ya-Ping Li , Douglas N. C. Lin , Richard Alexander , Sergei Nayakshin , Fei Dai

A planet orbiting around a star in a binary system can be ejected if it lies too far from its host star. We find that instability boundaries first obtained in numerical studies can be explained by overlap between sub-resonances within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lawrence R. Mudryk , Yanqin Wu

In some planetary systems, the orbital periods of two of its members present a commensurability, usually known by mean-motion resonance. These resonances greatly enhance the mutual gravitational influence of the planets. As a consequence,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-18 Alexandre C. M. Correia , Jean-Baptiste Delisle , Jacques Laskar

Many extrasolar planetary systems containing multiple super-Earths have been discovered. N-body simulations taking into account standard type-I planetary migration suggest that protoplanets are captured into mean-motion resonant orbits near…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yuji Matsumoto , Makiko Nagasawa , Shigeru Ida

The formation of resonant planets pairs in exoplanetary systems involves planetary migration inside the protoplanetary disc : an inwards migrating outer planet captures in Mean Motion Resonance an inner planet. During the migration of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-18 A. Crida , Zs. Sándor , W. Kley

Planet-disk interaction predicts a change in the orbital elements of an embedded planet. Through linear and fully hydrodynamical studies it has been found that migration is typically directed inwards. Hence, this migration process gives…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Willy Kley

Assuming that giant planets are formed in thin protoplanetary discs, a '3D' system can form, provided that the mutual inclination is excited by some dynamical mechanism. Resonant interactions and close planetary encounters are thought to be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. -S. Libert , K. Tsiganis

The Kepler mission has recently discovered a number of exoplanetary systems, such as Kepler-11 and Kepler-32, in which ensembles of several planets are found in very closely packed orbits (often within a few percent of an AU of one…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 T. O. Hands , R. D. Alexander , W. Dehnen