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The complex classification of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) that are captured in mean-motion resonances (MMRs) and the constraint of their multiple origins are two significant open problems concerning the Solar System. The case-by-case…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Alan J. Alves-Carmo , Timothée Vaillant , Alexandre C. M. Correia

We investigate the condition for capture into first-order mean motion resonances using numerical simulations with a wide range of various parameters. In particular, we focus on deriving the critical migration timescale for capture into the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Masahiro Ogihara , Hiroshi Kobayashi

We study the migration of three-planet systems in an irradiated 1+1D $\alpha$-disc with photoevaporation. We performed $2700$ simulations with various planets' masses and initial orbits. We found that most of the systems which ended up as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Cezary Migaszewski

Planet-planet scattering is the leading mechanism to explain the large eccentricities of the observed exoplanet population. However, scattering has not been considered important to the production of pairs of planets in mean motion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sean N. Raymond , Rory Barnes , Philip J. Armitage , Noel Gorelick

The presence of mean-motion resonances (MMRs) in exoplanetary systems is a new exciting field of celestial mechanics which motivates us to consider this work to study the dynamical behaviour of exoplanetary systems by time evolution of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-15 Rajib Mia , Badam Singh Kushvah

In this study, a new expansion of planetary disturbing function is developed for describing the resonant dynamics of minor bodies with arbitrary inclinations and semimajor axis ratios. In practice, the disturbing function is expanded around…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-17 Hanlun Lei

We use perturbation theory and bifurcation theory to analyze the dynamical behavior of resonances, associated to a model describing a particle moving within a ring around a celestial object. The central body is modeled as a homogeneous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Alessandra Celletti , Irene De Blasi , Sara Di Ruzza

Mean motion resonances (MMRs) are a key phenomenon in orbital dynamics. The traditional disturbing function expansion in celestial mechanics shows that, at low eccentricities, $p$:$p-q$ MMRs exhibit a clear hierarchy of strengths, scaling…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-12 Elizabeth K Jones , Samuel Hadden , Supakrai Teekamongkol , Daniel Tamayo

We study the stability of mean-motion resonances (MMR) between two planets during their migration in a protoplanetary disk. We use an analytical model of resonances, and describe the effect of the disk by a migration timescale (T_{m,i}) and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-22 J. -B. Delisle , A. C. M. Correia , J. Laskar

Mean motion resonances (MMRs) can lead either to chaotic or regular motion. We report on a numerical experiment showing that even in one of the most chaotic regions of the Solar System - the region of the giant planets, there are numerous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ryszard Gabryszewski , Ireneusz Wlodarczyk

Most multi-planetary systems are characterized by hot-Jupiters close to their central star, moving on eccentric orbits. From a dynamical point of view, compact multi-planetary systems form a specific class of the general N-body problem…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-21 Julie Gayon , Eric Bois

Mean motion resonances are important in the analysis and understanding of the dynamics of planetary systems. While perturbative approaches have been dominant in many previous studies, recent non-perturbative approaches have revealed novel…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-17 Renu Malhotra , Zherui Chen

We develop a rigorous analytical Hamiltonian formalism adapted to the study of the motion of two planets in co-orbital resonance. By constructing a complex domain of holomorphy for the planetary Hamilto-nian, we estimate the size of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-02 Philippe Robutel , Laurent Niederman , Alexandre Pousse

The dynamical stability of tightly packed exoplanetary systems remains poorly understood. While for a two-planet system a sharp stability boundary exists, numerical simulations of three and more planet systems show that they can experience…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Antoine C. Petit , Gabriele Pichierri , Melvyn B. Davies , Anders Johansen

Lunar mean-motion resonances (MMRs) significantly shape cislunar dynamics beyond GEO, forming stable-unstable orbit pairs with corresponding intermingled chaotic and regular regions. The resonance zone is rigorously defined using the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Anjali Rawat , Bhanu Kumar , Aaron J. Rosengren , Shane D. Ross

Mean motion resonances (MMRs) are a generic outcome of convergent migration for bodies embedded in accretion disks around a central mass. Long studied in planetary systems, the same phenomenon should occur for stellar-mass black holes (BHs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-16 Marguerite Epstein-Martin , Nicholas Stone , Juliette Becker

Planetary systems exhibiting mean-motion resonances (MMRs) offer unique opportunities to study the imprint of disk-induced migration on the orbital architectures of planetary systems. The HD 45364 system, discovered via the radial velocity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-24 Ian Chow , Sam Hadden

We present a numerical study on the stability of the 1/2, 2/1 and 1/1 retrograde mean motion resonances in the 3-body problem composed of a solar mass star, a Jupiter mass planet and an additional body with zero mass (elliptic restricted…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 G. A. Caritá , A. C. Signor , M. H. M. Morais

Mean motion commensurabilities in multi-planet systems are an expected outcome of protoplanetary disk-driven migration, and their relative dearth in the observational data presents an important challenge to current models of planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Konstantin Batygin , Fred C. Adams

A classical approach to the restricted three-body problem is to analyze the dynamics of the massless body in the synodic reference frame. A different approach is represented by the perturbative treatment: in particular the averaged problem…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-29 Alexandre Pousse , Elisa Maria Alessi