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We present some preliminary results of our ongoing project about planetary systems around S-stars in the vicinity of Sgr A* black hole. Since S-stars might have migrated in the Galactic Centre (GC) from elsewhere, they probably still keep…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Nazanin Davari , Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta , Rainer Spurzem

Our Galaxy hosts a very massive object at its centre, often referred to as the supermassive black hole Sgr A*. Its gravitational tidal field is so intense that can strip apart a binary star passing its vicinity and accelerate one of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-10 Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta , Nazanin Davari

Most stars form in star clusters and stellar associated. To understand the roles of star cluster environments in shaping the dynamical evolution of planetary systems, we carry out direct $N$-body simulations of four planetary systems models…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-15 Maxwell Xu Cai , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Simon F. Portegies Zwart , Rainer Spurzem

Most stars form in dense stellar environments. It is speculated that some dense star clusters may host intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), which may have formed from runaway collisions between high-mass stars, or from the mergers of less…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Francesco Flammini Dotti , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Qi Shu , Wei Hao , Rainer Spurzem

The majority of binary star systems that host exoplanets will spend the first portion of their lives within a star-forming cluster that may drive dynamical evolution of the binary-planet system. We perform numerical simulations of S-type…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Elizabeth A. Ellithorpe , Nathan A. Kaib

We present some preliminary results of our work about the close encounter of binary stars hosting planets on S-type orbits with the Sgr A* supermassive black hole in the center of our Galaxy.

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-11 Nazanin Davari , Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta

At least 10-15% of nearby sun-like stars have known Jupiter-mass planets. In contrast, very few planets are found in mature open and globular clusters such as the Hyades and 47 Tuc. We explore here the possibility that this dichotomy is due…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-12 R. Spurzem , M. Giersz , D. C. Heggie , D. N. C. Lin

Stars formed in clusters can encounter other stars at close distances. In typical open clusters in the Solar neighbourhood containing hundreds or thousands of member stars, ten to twenty per cent of Solar-mass member stars are expected to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Daohai Li , Alexander J. Mustill , Melvyn B. Davies

Many of the multi-planet systems discovered to date have been notable for their compactness, with neighbouring planets closer together than any in the Solar System. Interestingly, planet-hosting stars have a wide range of ages, suggesting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Alysa Obertas , Christa Van Laerhoven , Daniel Tamayo

The majority of stars form in star clusters and many are thought to have planetary companions. We demonstrate that multi-planet systems are prone to instabilities as a result of frequent stellar encounters in these star clusters much more…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 W. Hao , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , R. Spurzem

In the solar neighborhood, where the typical relaxation timescale is larger than the cosmic age, at least 10\% to 15\% of Sun-like stars have planetary systems with Jupiter-mass planets. In contrast, dense star clusters, charactered by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Maxwell Xu Cai , Rainer Spurzem , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven

Planets are observed to orbit the component star(s) of stellar binary systems on so-called circumprimary or circumsecondary orbits, as well as around the entire binary system on so-called circumbinary orbits. Depending on the orbital…

Thousands of confirmed and candidate exoplanets have been identified in recent years. Consequently, theoretical research on the formation and dynamical evolution of planetary systems has seen a boost, and the processes of planet-planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-06 M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Qi Shu , Maxwell Xu Cai , Rainer Spurzem

Planetary systems formed in clusters may be subject to stellar encounter flybys. Here we create a diverse range of representative planetary systems with different orbital scales and planets' masses and examine encounters between them in a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Daohai Li , Alexander J. Mustill , Melvyn B. Davies

Young stars are mostly found in dense stellar environments, and even our own Solar system may have formed in a star cluster. Here, we numerically explore the evolution of planetary systems similar to our own Solar system in star clusters.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-27 Francesco Flammini Dotti , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Maxwell Xu Cai , Rainer Spurzem

The disruption of a binary star system by the massive black hole at the Galactic Centre, SgrA*, can lead to the capture of one star around SgrA* and the ejection of its companion as a hypervelocity star (HVS). We consider the possibility…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Idan Ginsburg , Abraham Loeb , Gary A. Wegner

Among the growing list of confirmed exoplanets, the number of planets identified in dense star clusters remains sparse. Previous analyses have suggested this may be due in part to dynamical interactions that unbind large fractions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 Kyle Kremer , Daniel J. D'Orazio , Johan Samsing , Sourav Chatterjee , Frederic A. Rasio

The Galactic Center hosts a rotating disk of young stars between 0.05 and 0.5 pc of Sgr A*. The ``S-stars'' at a distance $<0.04$ pc, however, are on eccentric orbits with nearly isotropically distributed inclinations. The dynamical origin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-14 Tatsuya Akiba , Smadar Naoz , Ann-Marie Madigan

It is theoretically expected that a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the centre of a typical nearby galaxy disrupts a Solar-type star every ~ 10^5 years, resulting in a bright flare lasting for months. Sgr A*, the resident SMBH of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Kastytis Zubovas , Sergei Nayakshin , Sera Markoff

Flares in X-ray and near infrared are observed above the quiescent emission of the supermassive black hole (SBH) in the Galactic Centre (GC) at a rate of approximately once per day. One proposed energy source for these flares is the tidal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Adrian S. Hamers , Simon F. Portegies Zwart
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