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According to core-accretion formation models, the conditions under which gas giants will form around M dwarfs are very restrictive. Also, the correlation of the occurrence of these planets with the metallicity of host stars is still unknown…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes

Solid body tides provide key information on the interior structure, evolution, and origin of the planetary bodies. Our Solar system harbours a very diverse population of planetary bodies, including those composed of rock, ice, gas, or a…

Tidal interactions in a coalescing binary neutron star (BNS) or neutron star-black hole (NSBH) system driven by gravitational wave (GW) radiation contain precious information about physics both at extreme density and in the highly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-11 Hang Yu , Shu Yan Lau

Stellar systems are broadly divided into collisional and non-collisional. The latter are large-N systems with long relaxation timescales and can be simulated disregarding two-body interactions, while either computationally expensive direct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-05 Pierfrancesco Di Cintio , Mario Pasquato , Hyunwoo Kim , Suk-Jin Yoon

This paper presents a novel methodology for the direct numerical modeling and simulation of turbulent flows. The kinetic model equation is firstly extended to turbulent flow with the account of coupled evolution of kinetic, thermal, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Xiaojian Yang , Kun Xu

With the discovery during the past decade of a large number of extrasolar planets orbiting their parent stars at a distance lower than 0.1 astronomical unit (and the launch and the preparation of dedicated space missions such as CoRoT and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-12 Stephane Mathis , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte

Many exoplanetary systems are multiplanet configurations whose long-term dynamics are governed by N-body gravitational interactions. Consequently, their detection signatures cannot be adequately described by Keplerian orbits. Accurately…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Hong-Fei Jia , Sheng Jin , Dong-Hong Wu , Shang-Fei Liu

The first attempt at developing a fully self-consistent code coupling dynamics and collisions to study debris discs (Kral, Thebault, Charnoz, 2013) is presented. So far, these two crucial mechanisms were studied separately, with N-body and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Q. Kral , P. Thebault , S. Charnoz

In this paper we carry out anisotropic "separate universe" simulations by including a large-scale tidal field in the N-body code \textsc{gadget}4 using an anisotropic expansion factor $A_{ij}$. We use the code in a pure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Andreas S. Schmidt , Simon D. M. White , Fabian Schmidt , Jens Stücker

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

The shearing motion of tidal flows that are excited in non-equilibrium binary stars transform kinetic energy into heat via a process referred to as tidal heating. In this paper we aim to explore the way tidal heating affects the stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Diana Estrella-Trujillo , S. Jane Arthur , Gloria Koenigsberger , Edmundo Moreno

Since 1995, more than 500 extrasolar planets have been discovered orbiting very close to their parent star, where they experience strong tidal interactions. Their orbital evolution depends on the physical mechanisms that cause tidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 F. Remus , S. Mathis , J. -P. Zahn

Tidal dissipation in planets and stars is one of the key physical mechanisms driving the evolution of star-planet and planet-moon systems. Several signatures of its action are observed in planetary systems thanks to their orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 P. Auclair-Desrotour , S. Mathis , C. Le Poncin-Lafitte

Gas giant planets are differentially rotating magnetic objects that have strong and complex interactions with their environment. In our Solar system, they interact with their numerous moons while exoplanets with very short orbital periods…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Hachem Dhouib , Clément Baruteau , Stéphane Mathis , Florian Debras , Aurélie Astoul , Michel Rieutord

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

We discuss the linear response to low-frequency tidal forcing of fluid bodies that are slowly and uniformly rotating, are neutrally stratified and may contain a solid or fluid core. This problem may be regarded as a simplified model of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Gordon I. Ogilvie

This paper presents one analytical tidal theory for a viscoelastic multi-layered body with an arbitrary number of homogeneous layers. Starting with the static equilibrium figure, modified to include tide and differential rotation, and using…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 Hugo A. Folonier , Sylvio Ferraz-Mello

This paper presents a new theory of the dynamical tides of celestial bodies. It is founded on a Newtonian creep instead of the classical delaying approach of the standard viscoelastic theories and the results of the theory derive mainly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Sylvio Ferraz-Mello

An extended body orbiting a compact object undergoes tidal deformations by the background gravitational field. Tidal invariants built up with the Riemann tensor and their derivatives evaluated along the world line of the body are essential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-21 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico

Tidal dissipation in planetary interiors is one of the key physical mechanisms that drive the evolution of star-planet and planet-moon systems. New constraints are now obtained both in the Solar and exoplanetary systems. Tidal dissipation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-21 M. Guenel , S. Mathis , F. Remus