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A tidal radius is a distance from a satellite orbiting in a host potential beyond which its material is stripped by the tidal force. We derive a revised expression for the tidal radius of a rotating satellite which properly takes into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-21 Grzegorz Gajda , Ewa L. Lokas

We study the tidal forcing, propagation and dissipation of linear inertial waves in a rotating fluid body. The intentionally simplified model involves a perfectly rigid core surrounded by a deep ocean consisting of a homogeneous…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Gordon I. Ogilvie

Recently, the spinning tethered system is regarded as a typical and fundamental space structure attracting great interest of the aerospace engineers, and has been discussed primarily for specific space missions in past decades, including…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-03-11 Hexi Baoyin , Yang Yu , Junfeng Li

We discuss a model describing the effects of tidal dissipation on satellite's orbits. Tidal bulges are described in terms of a dumbbell, coupled to the rotation by a dissipative interaction. The assumptions on this dissipative coupling…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-08 Benedetto Scoppola , Alessio Troiani , Matteo Veglianti

We consider the excitation of the inertial modes of a uniformly rotating fully convective body due to a close encounter with another object. This could lead to a tidal capture or orbital circularisation depending on whether the initial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. C. B. Papaloizou , P. B. Ivanov

In this work, models of rubble pile binary secondaries are simulated in different spin states in a system similar in size and scale to Didymos-Dimorphos. The numerical modeling is performed in the N-body Chrono-based software GRAINS, which…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Ethan R. Burnett , Iosto Fodde , Fabio Ferrari

In this Paper we determine the non-dissipative tidal evolution of a close binary system with an arbitrary eccentricity in which the spin angular momenta of both components are misaligned with the orbital angular momentum. We focus on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-10 Y. A. Lazovik , P. B. Ivanov , J. C. B. Papaloizou

The stability of the orbital motion of two long cylindrical magnets interacting exclusively with magnetic forces is described. To carry out analytical studies a model of magnetically interacting symmetric tops [1] is used. The model was…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-18 Stanislav Zub

Dynamical tide consists of various waves that can resonate with orbital motion. We test this coupling of dynamical tide and orbital motion using a simple two-dimensional shallow water model, which can be applied to a rocky planet covered…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Xing Wei

Tidal effects in planetary systems are the main driver in the orbital migration of natural satellites. They result from physical processes occurring deep inside celestial bodies, whose effects are rarely observable from surface imaging. For…

We present an interdisciplinary comparison between binary black hole systems and Radio Frequency (RF) Paul Traps, modeling the gravitational binary system as a rotating saddle near its center. This analogy connects these seemingly unrelated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-10 Ali Kurmus , Michal Zajacek , Greg Kestin , Louis Deslauriers

Tidal torques can alter the spins of tidally interacting stars and planets, usually over shorter timescales than the tidal damping of orbital separations or eccentricities. Simple tidal models predict that, in eccentric binary or planetary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-16 Janosz W. Dewberry

The aim of this work is to explore the escape process of three-dimensional orbits in a star cluster rotating around its parent galaxy in a circular orbit. The gravitational field of the cluster is represented by a smooth, spherically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos

To first approximation, a binary system conserves its angular momentum while it evolves to its state of minimum kinetic energy: circular orbit, all spins aligned, and components rotating in synchronism with the orbital motion. The pace at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jean-Paul Zahn

Tidal stress is a globally acting perturbation driven primarily by the gravitational forcing of the Moon and the Sun. Understanding how tidal stresses can trigger seismic events is essential for constraining tectonic environments that are…

We calculate exactly the modes of motion of the Time-averaged Orbiting Potential (TOP) trap with its four degrees of freedom, namely the three translations and the spin, taken into account. We find that, when gravity is neglected, there are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Gov , S. Shtrikman

In this work, we highlight the existence of a lower limit on the tidal deformability parameter $\Lambda$, determined by the requirement of relativistic causality. Additionally, by considering the upper bound set on compactness, we identify…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Benedetta Russo , Alfredo Urbano

Modelling the flow in a thin accretion disc like a dynamical system, we analyse the nature of the critical points of the steady solutions of the flow. For the simple inviscid disc there are two critical points, with the outer one being a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnab K. Ray , J. K. Bhattacharjee

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

We construct the external metric of a slowly rotating, tidally deformed material body in general relativity. The tidal forces acting on the body are assumed to be weak and to vary slowly with time, and the metric is obtained as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-03 Philippe Landry , Eric Poisson