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We present a tidal model for treating the rotational evolution in the general three-body problem with arbitrary viscosities, in which all the masses are considered to be extended and all the tidal interactions between pairs are taken into…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 F. A. Zoppetti , H. Folonier , A. M. Leiva , C. Beaugé

We perform direct numerical simulations of the tidal encounter of a rotating planet on a highly eccentric or parabolic orbit about a central star formulated as an initial value problem. This approach enables us to extend previous work of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. C. B. Papaloizou , P. B. Ivanov

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

This paper examines the energetics of a convective flow subject to an oscillation with a period $t_{\rm osc}$ much smaller than the convective timescale $t_{\rm conv}$, allowing for compressibility and uniform rotation. We show that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Caroline Terquem

Stellar binaries in galactic centers are relevant to several observable phenomena, including hypervelocity stars, X-ray binaries, and mergers of stars and compact objects; however, we know little about the properties of these binaries. Past…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-06 Mark Dodici , Scott Tremaine , Yanqin Wu

Hot Jupiters (HJs) are giant planets with orbital periods shorter than $10$ days, found around $\sim 0.5$-$1\%$ of Sun-like stars. Their origins remain debated despite decades of study. The high prevalence of stellar companions, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Evgeni Grishin , Jet Winter , Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes

Tidal dissipation in star-planet systems can occur through various mechanisms, among which is the elliptical instability. This acts on elliptically deformed equilibrium tidal flows in rotating fluid planets and stars, and excites inertial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Nils B. de Vries , Adrian J. Barker , Rainer Hollerbach

During post-main-sequence evolution, radial expansion of the primary star, accompanied by intense winds, can significantly alter the binary orbit via tidal dissipation and mass loss. The fate of a given binary system is determined by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-28 J. Nordhaus

Most transiting planets orbit very close to their parent star, causing strong tidal forces between the two bodies. Tidal interaction can modify the dynamics of the system through orbital alignment, circularisation, synchronisation, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Frederic Pont

Observations of hot Jupiter type exoplanets suggest that their orbital period distribution depends on the metallicity of their host star. We investigate here whether the impact of the stellar metallicity on the evolution of the tidal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Emeline Bolmont , Florian Gallet , Stéphane Mathis , Corinne Charbonnel , Louis Amard , Yann Alibert

Layered semi-convection could operate in giant planets, potentially explaining the constraints on the heavy elements distribution in Jupiter deduced recently from Juno observations, and contributing to Saturn's luminosity excess or the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-30 Q. André , S. Mathis , A. J. Barker

The orbits of short-period exoplanets are sculpted by tidal dissipation. However, the mechanisms and associated efficiencies of these tidal interactions are poorly constrained. We present robust constraints on the tidal quality factors of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-17 Sarah C. Millholland , Morgan MacLeod , Felicia Xiao

This investigation is devoted to the effects of nonadiabatic resonant dynamic tides generated in a uniformly rotating stellar component of a close binary. The companion is considered to move in a fixed Keplerian orbit, and the effects of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Willems , T. Van Hoolst , P. Smeyers

At least two arguments suggest that the orbits of a large fraction of binary stars and extrasolar planets shrank by 1-2 orders of magnitude after formation: (i) the physical radius of a star shrinks by a large factor from birth to the main…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-04 Daniel Fabrycky , Scott Tremaine

While the number of detected planets is continuously increasing since 1995, their impact on their central star still remain poorly understood. Yet, the presence of a massive close-in planet can strongly modify the surface angular velocity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-30 Florian Gallet , Philippe Delorme

Of the 14 transiting planets that have been detected orbiting eclipsing binaries ('circumbinary planets'), none have been detected with stellar binary orbital periods shorter than 7 days, despite such binaries existing in abundance. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Saahit Mogan , J. J. Zanazzi

A theoretical framework for the determination of tidally induced radial-velocity variations in a component of a close binary is presented. Both the free and the forced oscillations of the component are treated as linear, isentropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Willems , C. Aerts

We study tidal dissipation in models of rotating giant planets with masses in the range $0.1 - 10 M_\mathrm{J}$ throughout their evolution. Our models incorporate a frequency-dependent turbulent effective viscosity acting on equilibrium…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-28 Yaroslav A. Lazovik , Adrian J. Barker , Nils B. de Vries , Aurélie Astoul

Globular clusters cores harbour many low-mass X-ray binaries, cataclysmic variables, and millisecond pulsar binaries which are likely to have been formed via the process of tidal capture. Tidal capture binaries were originally thought to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rosemary A. Mardling

Compact binary systems coalesce over time due to the radiation of gravitational waves, following the field equations of general relativity. Conservation of energy and angular momentum gives a mathematical description for the evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-10 Lutendo Nyadzani , Soebur Razzaque
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