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Stellar-mass binaries evolving in the vicinity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) may be common in the universe, either in active galactic nuclei or in other astrophysical environments. Here, we study in detail the resonant excitation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 João S. Santos , Vitor Cardoso , Alexandru Lupsasca , José Natário , Maarten van de Meent

A number of giant planet pairs discovered by the radial velocity method with period ratios $\lesssim 2$ may reside in mean motion resonances. Convergent orbital migration and resonant capture at the time of formation would naturally explain…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Sam Hadden , Matthew J. Payne

Space missions have discovered a large number of exoplanets evolving in (or close to) mean-motion resonances (MMRs) and resonant chains. Often, the published data exhibit very high uncertainties due to the observational limitations that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Kyriaki I. Antoniadou , George Voyatzis

We investigate the inclination-growth mechanisms for two-planet systems during the late protoplanetary disc phase. In previous works, much attention has been directed to the inclination-type resonance, and it has been shown that it asks for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Sotiris Sotiriadis , Anne-Sophie Libert

There are excesses of sub-Neptunes just wide of period commensurabilities like the 3:2 and 2:1, and corresponding deficits narrow of them. Any theory that explains this period ratio structure must also explain the strong transit timing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Nick Choksi , Eugene Chiang

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

The 1:N mean motion resonances with Neptune are of particular interest because they have two asymmetric resonance islands, where the distribution of trapped objects may bear important clues to the history of the Solar System. To explore the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 Hailiang Li , Li-Yong Zhou

While it is accepted that the eccentricity of Mercury (0.206) favours entrapment into the 3:2 spin-orbit resonance, open is the question how and when the capture took place. A recent work by Makarov (2012) has demonstrated that trapping…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-26 Benoit Noyelles , Julien Frouard , Valeri Makarov , Michael Efroimsky

Planetary formation theories and, more specifically, migration models predict that planets can be captured in mean-motion resonances (MMRs) during the disc phase. The distribution of period ratios between adjacent planets shows an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-22 Carolina Charalambous , Jean Teyssandier , Anne-Sophie Libert

We introduce a classification scheme of the post-merger dynamics and gravitational-wave emission in binary neutron star mergers, after identifying a new mechanism by which a secondary peak in the gravitational-wave spectrum is produced. It…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Bauswein , N. Stergioulas

Massive stars feature highly energetic stellar winds that interact whenever two such stars are bound in a binary system. The signatures of these interactions are nowadays found over a wide range of wavelengths, including the radio domain,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Gregor Rauw

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

Close binary stars are binary stars where the component stars are close enough such that they can exchange mass and/or energy. They are subdivided into semi-detached, overcontact or ellipsoidal binary stars. A challenging problem in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Sandip V. George , R. Misra , G. Ambika

(Abridged) We have numerically explored the stable planetary geometry for the multiple systems involved in a 2:1 mean motion resonance, and herein we mainly concentrate on the study of the HD 82943 system by employing two sets of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ji Jianghui , H. Kinoshita , Liu Lin , H. Nakai , Li Guangyu

The dynamical evolution of binary asteroid systems is deeply influenced by spin-orbit resonances. However, their domains of influence and mutual interactions remain elusive, in particular in the space where multiple resonant modes coexist.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 Yuanzhe Zhang , Hanlun Lei

At least two multi-planetary systems in a 4:3 mean motion resonance have been found by radial velocity surveys. These planets are gas giants and the systems are only stable when protected by a resonance. Additionally the Kepler mission has…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-25 Hanno Rein , Matthew J. Payne , Dimitri Veras , Eric B. Ford

We study the evolution of two planets around a star, in mean-motion resonance and undergoing tidal effect. We derive an integrable analytical model of mean-motion resonances of any order which reproduce the main features of the resonant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-02 J. -B. Delisle , J. Laskar , A. C. M. Correia

The majority of stars more massive than the Sun is found in binary or multiple star systems and many of them will interact during their evolution. Specific interactions, where progenitors and post-mass transfer (MT) systems are clearly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Stephan Geier , Thomas Kupfer , Pierre Maxted , Veronika Schaffenroth

Contact binaries are close binary systems in which both components fill their inner Roche lobes so that the stars are in direct contact and in potential mass and energy exchange. The most common such systems of low-mass are the so-called W…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-08 Bojan Arbutina , Surjit Wadhwa

We present a mechanism related to the migration of giant protoplanets embedded in a protoplanetary disc whereby a giant protoplanet is caught up, before having migrated all the way to the central star, by a lighter outer giant protoplanet.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Masset , M. Snellgrove