English
Related papers

Related papers: Orbital stability of two circumbinary planets arou…

200 papers

With hydrodynamic simulations we show that a coplanar disc around one component of a binary can be unstable to global tilting when the disc orbits in a retrograde direction relative to the binary. The disc experiences the largest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 Madeline Overton , Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow , Stephen Lepp

Many exoplanets in close-in orbits are observed to have relatively high eccentricities and large stellar obliquities. We explore the possibility that these result from planet-planet scattering by studying the dynamical outcomes from a large…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-24 Cristobal Petrovich , Scott Tremaine , Roman R. Rafikov

Many features of the outer solar system are replicated in numerical simulations if the giant planets undergo an orbital instability that ejects one or more ice giants. During this instability, Jupiter and Saturn's orbits diverge, crossing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Nathan A. Kaib , John E. Chambers

The discovery of transiting circumbinary planets by the Kepler mission suggests that planets can form efficiently around binary stars. None of the stellar binaries currently known to host planets has a period shorter than 7 days, despite…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Diego J. Muñoz , Dong Lai

Applying the technique of dynamical maps we study the orbital stability of test particles in the Solar System in the space (a,e,i) defined by 0.1<a<38 au, 0<e<0.9 and 0<i<180 identifying the unstable and stable regions. We find stable…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Tabare Gallardo

Recent works suggest that, in multiplanetary systems, a close-in exoplanet can sometimes avoid becoming tidally locked to its host star if it is captured into a secular spin-orbit resonance with a companion planet. In such a resonance, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Henry Yuan , Yubo Su , Jeremy Goodman

The star formation process in molecular clouds usually leads to the formation of multiple stellar systems, mostly binaries. Remaining disks around those stars may be located around individual stars (circumstellar disks) or around the entire…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wilhelm Kley , Andreas Burkert

The post-main sequence eclipsing binary NN Serpentis was recently announced as the potential host of at least two massive planetary companions. In that work, the authors put forward two potential architectures that fit the observations of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jonathan Horner , Robert A. Wittenmyer , Tobias C. Hinse , Chris G. Tinney

A large sample of planet-planet scattering events for three planet systems with different orbital separations and masses is analyzed with a multiple regression model. The dependence of the time for the onset of instability on the masses of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Francesco Marzari

Over 50 circumbinary exoplanets have been discovered in recent years, with several of them being gas giants on wide orbits ($>10$AU). The aim of this work is to investigate whether these planets can form through circumbinary disc…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Matthew Teasdale , Dimitris Stamatellos

The existence of planets born in environments highly perturbed by a stellar companion represents a major challenge to the paradigm of planet formation. In numerical simulations, the presence of a close binary companion stirs up the relative…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Stefano Meschiari

Equilibrium fluid configurations for close binary systems can become {\em globally unstable\/}. Instabilities arise from the strong tidal interaction between the two components, which tends to make the effective two-body potential governing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frederic A. Rasio

Star-planet interactions play, among other things, a crucial role in planetary orbital configurations by circularizing orbits, aligning the star and planet spin and synchronizing stellar rotation with orbital motions. This is especially…

To date, several exoplanets have been discovered orbiting stars with close binary companions (a~<30 AU). The fact that planets can form in these dynamically challenging environments implies that planet formation must be a robust process.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Hannah Jang-Condell

We show that interaction with a gas disk may produce young planetary systems with closely-spaced orbits, stabilized by mean-motion resonances between neighbors. On longer timescales, after the gas is gone, interaction with a remnant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Edward W. Thommes , Geoffrey Bryden , Yanqin Wu , Frederic A. Rasio

Binary systems are ubiquitous in the Universe and often host circumbinary discs that are misaligned with the binary orbital plane. Such misalignments can affect disc evolution and binary accretion variability. We here present 3D…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-17 Ruiqi Yang , Jeremy L. Smallwood , Hongping Deng , Ya-Ping Li , Alessia Franchini , Ruobing Dong , Shang-Fei Liu

We study the dynamical stability of planetary systems consisting of one hypothetical terrestrial mass planet ($1 $ or $10 \mearth$) and one massive planet ($10 \mearth - 10 \mjup$). We consider masses and orbits that cover the range of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ravi kumar Kopparapu , Rory Barnes

The interaction between a planet located in the inner region of a disc and the warped outer region is studied. We consider the stage of evolution after the planet has cleared-out a gap, so that the planetary orbit evolves only under the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Caroline Terquem

Observations of hierarchical triple star systems show that misalignments are common both between the angular momentum vector of the inner binary and the outer companion orbit, and between the outer binary orbit and a circumtriple gas disk.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Stephen Lepp , Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow

The presence of highly eccentric extrasolar planets in binary stellar systems suggests that the Kozai effect has played an important role in shaping their dynamical architectures. However, the formation of planets in inclined binary systems…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Konstantin Batygin , Alessandro Morbidelli , Kleomenis Tsiganis