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Compact binaries with orbital periods shorter than about 7 days show an absence of transiting planets, a feature known as the ``circumbinary planet desert". The physical mechanism behind this desert remains unclear. We investigate its…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Bin Liu , Dong Lai

Although most of the circumbinary planets detected by the Kepler spacecraft are on orbits that are closely aligned with the binary orbital plane, the systems Kepler-413 and Kepler-453 exhibit small misalignments of $\sim 2.5^\circ$. One…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Arnaud Pierens , Richard P. Nelson

Discs in binaries have a complex behavior because of the perturbations of the companion star. Planet formation in binary-star systems both depend on the companion star parameters and on the properties of the circumstellar disc. An eccentric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Marzari , C. Baruteau , H. Scholl , P. Thebault

Binary black holes with spins that are aligned with the orbital angular momentum do not precess. However, post-Newtonian calculations predict that "up-down" binaries, in which the spin of the heavier (lighter) black hole is aligned…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-10 Vijay Varma , Matthew Mould , Davide Gerosa , Mark A. Scheel , Lawrence E. Kidder , Harald P. Pfeiffer

We solve the equations of two-dimensional hydrodynamics describing a circumbinary disk accreting onto an eccentric, equal-mass binary. We compute the time rate of change of the binary semimajor axis $a$ and eccentricity $e$ over a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-17 Daniel J. D'Orazio , Paul C. Duffell

In this article, I examine several observational trends regarding protoplanetary disks, debris disks and exoplanets in binary systems in an attempt to constrain the physical mechanisms of planet formation in such a context. Binaries wider…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Duchene

We study the effect of irradiation from two accretion disks (minidisks) around respective black holes of stellar to intermediate masses in a circular binary on the spectrum of a circumbinary disk (CBD) surrounding them. We assume the CBD to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-19 Yunewoo Lee , Atsuo T. Okazaki , Kimitake Hayasaki

If the envelope of a massive star is not entirely removed during common envelope (CE) interaction with an orbiting compact (e.g., black hole [BH] or neutron star [NS]) companion, the residual bound material eventually cools, forming a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-21 Semih Tuna , Brian D. Metzger

In this paper, we investigate whether hypothetical Earth-like planets have high probability of remaining on stable orbits inside the habitable zones around the stars A and B of {\alpha} Centauri, for lengths of time compatible with the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Eduardo Andrade-Ines , Tatiana A. Michtchenko

All four circumbinary (CB) protoplanetary disks orbiting short-period ($P < 20$ day) double-lined spectroscopic binaries (SB2s)---a group that includes UZ Tau E, for which we present new ALMA data---exhibit sky-plane inclinations $i_{\rm…

We study the evolution of circumstellar massive disks around the primary star of a binary system focusing on the computation of disk eccentricity. In particular, we concentrate on its dependence on the binary eccentricity. Self-gravity is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Marzari , H. Scholl , P. Thebault , C. Baruteau

The majority of solar-type stars reside in multiple systems, especially binaries. They form in dense cores of molecular clouds that are observed to be significantly magnetized. Our previous study shows that magnetic braking can tighten the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-06 Bo Zhao , Zhi-Yun Li , Kaitlin M. Kratter

To date, several exoplanets have been discovered orbiting stars with close binary companions (a~<30 AU). The fact that planets can form in these dynamically challenging environments implies that planet formation must be a robust process.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Hannah Jang-Condell

We examine characteristics of circumbinary orbits in the context of current planet formation scenarios. Analytical perturbation theory predicts the existence of nested circumbinary orbits that are generalizations of circular paths around a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-26 B. C. Bromley , S. J. Kenyon

Stellar perturbations affect planet-formation in binary systems. Recent studies show that the planet-formation stage of mutual accretion of km-sized planetesimals is most sensitive to binary effects. In this paper, the condition for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ji-Wei Xie , Ji-Lin Zhou , Jian Ge

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

Be stars are surrounded by outflowing circumstellar matter structured in the form of decretion discs. They are often members of binary systems, where it is expected that the decretion disc interacts both radiatively and gravitationally with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Despina Panoglou , Alex C. Carciofi , Rodrigo G. Vieira , Isabelle H. Cyr , Carol E. Jones , Atsuo T. Okazaki , Thomas Rivinius

We study the dynamics of a two-planet system, which evolves being in a $1/1$ mean motion resonance (co-orbital motion) with non-zero mutual inclination. In particular, we examine the existence of bifurcations of periodic orbits from the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-10 Kyriaki I. Antoniadou , George Voyatzis , Harry Varvoglis

We carry out numerical simulations of circumbinary discs, solving the viscous hydrodynamics equations on a polar grid covering an extended disc outside the binary co-orbital region. We use carefully controlled outer boundary conditions and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Ryan Miranda , Diego Muñoz , Dong Lai

Hot subdwarf (sdB) stars in binary systems with main-sequence (MS) companions provide valuable insights into mass transfer and envelope ejection processes in binary evolution. Their mass ratios, orbital periods, and stellar properties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Jiangdan Li , Jianping Xiong , Jiao Li , Hai-Liang Chen , Hongwei Ge , Mingkuan Yang , Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han