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The light curve of an eclipsing system shows anomalies whenever the eclipsing body passes in front of active regions on the eclipsed star. In some cases, the pattern of anomalies can be used to determine the obliquity $\Psi$ of the eclipsed…

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We study accretion processes for tidally disrupted stars approaching supermassive black holes on bound orbits, by performing three dimensional Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics simulations with a pseudo-Newtonian potential. We find that there…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Kimitake Hayasaki , Nicholas Stone , Abraham Loeb

We compute deviations from observed gravitational wave signals, where the amplitude of the signal is unchanged. As an example, we consider the detectability of low lying dynamical tides in binary neutron star or neutron star black hole…

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Gravitational-wave observations of merging compact binaries hold the key to precision measurements of the objects' masses and spins. General-relativistic precession, caused by spins misaligned with the orbital angular momentum, is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt , Riccardo Buscicchio , Lucy M. Thomas

We compute the gravitational fluxes and waveform for eccentric compact binaries including matter effects through adiabatic tidal interactions within the post-Newtonian approximation. The computations are performed at the relative 2.5PN…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Quentin Henry

After eleven gravitational-wave detections from compact-binary mergers, we are yet to observe the striking general-relativistic phenomenon of orbital precession. Measurements of precession would provide valuable insights into the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-02 Stephen Fairhurst , Rhys Green , Mark Hannam , Charlie Hoy

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) mark a regime where traditional vacuum models fail to capture the full dynamics, especially due to interaction between stellar debris and pre-existing accretion disks. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-10 Minghao Zhang , Wenda Zhang , Hongping Deng , Hengxiao Guo , Jingbo Sun

High-precision and long-duration light curves from space telescopes have revolutionized the fields of asteroseismology and binary star systems. In particular, the number of pulsating systems in eclipsing binaries has drastically increased…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 John Southworth , Dominic Bowman

We investigate the secular evolution of the orbital semi-major axis and eccentricity due to mass transfer in eccentric binaries, assuming conservation of total system mass and orbital angular momentum. Assuming a delta function mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. F. Sepinsky , B. Willems , V. Kalogera , F. A. Rasio

(abridged) We consider a secular orbital evolution of a supermassive binary black hole (SBBH) with unequal masses $M_p$ and $M_s < M_p$ in a central part of a non-spherical nuclear star cluster (NSC). When the mass of NSC inside the orbit…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-17 Pavel B. Ivanov , Alexander G. Polnarev

We perform a suite of numerical simulations of tidal disruption events, using smoothed particle hydrodynamics, for a close binary system consisting of two low-mass white dwarfs, and an intermediate mass non-spinning black hole. The binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 Aryabrat Mahapatra , Adarsh Pandey , Pritam Banerjee , Tapobrata Sarkar

Highly eccentric binary systems appear in many astrophysical contexts, ranging from tidal capture in dense star clusters, precursors of stellar disruption by massive black holes, to high-eccentricity migration of giant planets. In a highly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Michelle Vick , Dong Lai

In a galactic nucleus, a star on a low angular momentum orbit around the central massive black hole can be fully or partially disrupted by the black hole tidal field, lighting up the compact object via gas accretion. This phenomenon can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Deborah Mainetti , Alessandro Lupi , Sergio Campana , Monica Colpi

We have investigated i) the formation of gravitationally bounded pairs of gas-giant planets (which we call "binary planets") from capturing each other through planet-planet dynamical tide during their close encounters and ii) the following…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 H. Ochiai , M. Nagasawa , S. Ida

Eclipsing binaries are vital for directly determining stellar parameters without reliance on models or scaling relations. Spectroscopically derived parameters of detached and semi-detached binaries allow us to determine component masses…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Rachel A. Matson , Douglas R. Gies , Zhao Guo , Stephen J. Williams

Most extrasolar planets currently known were discovered by means of an indirect method that measures the stellar wobble caused by the planet. We previously studied a triple system composed of a star and a nearby binary on circular coplanar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 M. H. M. Morais , A. C. M. Correia

If mutual gravitational scattering among exoplanets occurs, then it may produce unique orbital properties. For example, two-planet systems that lie near the boundary between circulation and libration of their periapses could result if…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Miles Timpe , Rory Barnes , Ravikumar Kopparapu , Sean N. Raymond , Richard Greenberg , Noel Gorelick

The dynamical evolution of short-period low-mass binary stars (with mass $M < 1.5M_{\odot}$, from formation to the late main-sequence, and with orbital periods less than $\sim$10 days) is strongly influenced by tidal dissipation. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Jessica Birky , Rory K. Barnes , James R. A. Davenport

It is usually accepted to consider an apsidal motion in binary stars as a direct confirmation that a substance inside stars is not uniformly distributed. It is shown in this paper that the apsidal motion in binary systems observation data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. V. Vasiliev

With more than 6000 exoplanets discovered so far, about 12 percent are hot Jupiters. Their large sizes and short orbital periods make them valuable targets for studying planetary formation, atmospheres, and orbital evolution. We present a…