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We use three dimensional hydrodynamical simulations to show that a highly misaligned accretion disk around one component of a binary system can exhibit global Kozai-Lidov cycles, where the inclination and eccentricity of the disk are…

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At least $70\%$ of massive OBA-type stars reside in binary or higher-order systems. The dynamical evolution of these systems can lend insight into the origins of extreme phenomena such as X-ray binaries and gravitational wave sources. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Sanaea C. Rose , Smadar Naoz , Aaron M. Geller

The order and chaos of the motion near equilibrium points in the potential of a rotating highly irregular-shaped celestial body are investigated from point of view of the dynamical system theory. The positions of the non-degenerate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-10 Yu Jiang , Hexi Baoyin , Xianyu Wang , Yang Yu , Hengnian Li , Chao Peng , Zhibin Zhang

Looking at the orbits of small bodies with large semimajor axes, we are compelled to see patterns. Some of these patterns are noted as strong indicators of new or hidden processes in the outer Solar System, others are substantially…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 JJ Kavelaars , Samantha M. Lawler , Michele T. Bannister , Cory Shankman

The orbits of giant extrasolar planets often have surprisingly small semi-major axes, large eccentricities, or severe misalignments between their normals and their host stars' spin axes. In some formation scenarios invoking Kozai-Lidov…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Rebekah Dawson , Eugene Chiang

For waveform modelling of compact binary coalescence, it is conventionally assumed that the binary is in isolation. In this work, we break that assumption and introduce a third body at a distance. The primary goal is to understand how the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Meet Khatri , Ankur Renduchintala , Sayak Datta , Sajal Mukherjee

Goal of the presented research is to construct simplified model of the core-halo structures in binary systems. Examples are provided by Thorne-Zytkov objects, hot Jupiters, protoplanets with large moons, red supergiants in binaries and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-02 A. Odrzywolek

Extrasolar multiple-planet systems provide valuable opportunities for testing theories of planet formation and evolution. The architectures of the known multiple-planet systems demonstrate a fascinating level of diversity, which motivates…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Robert A. Wittenmyer , Michael Endl , William D. Cochran , Harold F. Levison , Gregory W. Henry

Binary-star exoplanetary systems are now known to be common, for both wide and close binaries. However, their orbital evolution is generally unsolvable. Special cases of the N-body problem which are in fact completely solvable include…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Dimitri Veras

Multi-planetary systems are prevalent in our Galaxy. The long-term stability of such systems may be disrupted if a distant inclined companion excites the eccentricity and inclination of the inner planets via the eccentric Kozai-Lidov…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-11 Lingfeng Wei , Smadar Naoz , Thea Faridani , Will M. Farr

The three-body problem is arguably the oldest open question in astrophysics, and has resisted a general analytic solution for centuries. Various implementations of perturbation theory provide solutions in portions of parameter space, but…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Nicholas C. Stone , Nathan W. C. Leigh

We describe the long-term evolution of compact systems of terrestrial planets, using a set of simulations that match the statistical properties of the observed exoplanet distribution. The evolution is driven by tidal dissipation in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Bradley M. S. Hansen , Norman Murray

Planetary systems with more than two bodies will experience orbital crossings at a time related to the initial orbital separations of the planets. After a crossing, the system enters a period of chaotic evolution ending in the reshaping of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 David R. Rice , Frederic A. Rasio , Jason H. Steffen

We explore the effects of an undetected outer giant planet on the dynamics, observability, and stability of Systems with Tightly-packed Inner Planets (STIPs). We use direct numerical simulations along with secular theory and synthetic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 A. P. Granados Contreras , A. C. Boley

The long-term stability of the evolution of two-planet systems is considered by using the general three body problem (GTBP). Our study is focused on the stability of systems with adjacent orbits when at least one of them is highly…

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

Disks of low-mass bodies on high-eccentricity orbits in near-Keplerian potentials can be dynamically unstable to buckling out of the plane. In this letter, we present $N$-body simulations of the long-term behavior of such a system, finding…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Alexander Zderic , Angela Collier , Maria Tiongco , Ann-Marie Madigan

We compute the strengths of zero-th order (in eccentricity) three-body resonances for a co-planar and low eccentricity multiple planet system. In a numerical integration we illustrate that slowly moving Laplace angles are matched by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Alice C. Quillen

The orbital eccentricity of a single planet around a component of a stellar binary system with a sufficiently large mutual inclination angle is known to oscillate on a secular timescale through the Kozai mechanism. We have investigated the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-08 Genya Takeda , Ryosuke Kita , Frederic A. Rasio , Samuel M. Rubinstein

Orbital resonances are ubiquitous in the Solar system. They play a decisive role in the long term dynamics, and in some cases the physical evolution, of the planets and of their natural satellites, as well as the evolution of small bodies…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 Renu Malhotra

We perform numerical simulations to study the secular orbital evolution and dynamical structure in the HD 69830 system with the best-fit orbital solutions by Lovis and coworkers (2006). In the simulations, we show that the triplet Neptunian…

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