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Resonant locking of two planets is an expected outcome of convergent disc migration. The planets subsequently migrate together as a resonant pair. In the context of circumbinary planets, the disc is truncated internally by the binary. If…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Evan Fitzmaurice , David V. Martin , Daniel C. Fabrycky

We model the motion of a small compact object on a nearly circular orbit around a spinning supermassive black hole, which is also interacting with a thin equatorial accretion-disk surrounding the latter, through tools from self-force and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Abhishek Hegade K. R. , Charles F. Gammie , Nicolás Yunes

We study the time evolution of two protoplanets still embedded in a protoplanetary disk. The results of two different numerical approaches are presented and compared. In the first approach, the motion of the disk material is computed with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wilhelm Kley , Jochen Peitz , Geoffrey Bryden

Multiple models have been suggested over the years to explain the structure and support of accretion disks around supermassive black holes, from the standard thin thermal-pressure-dominated $\alpha$-disk model to more recent models that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-28 Yashvardhan Tomar , Philip F. Hopkins , Kyle Kremer

The interactions among objects in a mean motion resonance are important for the orbital evolution of satellites and rings, especially Saturn's ring arcs and associated moons. In this work, we examine interactions among massive bodies in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-06 Joseph A. A'Hearn , Matthew M. Hedman , Maryame El Moutamid

Mean motion resonances are commonly seen in planetary systems, e.g., in the formation of orbital structure of Jupiter's moons and the gaps in the rings of Saturn. In this work we study their effects in fully relativistic systems. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-01 Huan Yang , Béatrice Bonga , Zhipeng Peng , Gongjie Li

We consider the dynamical evolution of two planets orbiting in the vicinity of a first order mean motion reso- nance while simultaneously undergoing eccentricity damping and convergent migration. Following Goldreich & Schlichting (2014), we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Katherine M. Deck , Konstantin Batygin

The statistical results of transiting planets show that there are two peaks around 1.5 and 2.0 in the distribution of orbital period ratios. A large number of planet pairs are found near the exact location of mean motion resonances (MMRs).…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Su Wang , D. N. C. Lin , Xiaochen Zheng , Jianghui Ji

An intriguing trend among \kepler's multi-planet systems is an overabundance of planet pairs with period ratios just wide of a mean motion resonance (MMR) and a dearth of systems just narrow of them. Traditional planet formation models are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Sourav Chatterjee , Eric B. Ford

In a planetary system, a secular particle resonance occurs at a location where the precession rate of a test particle (e.g. an asteroid) matches the frequency of one of the precessional modes of the planetary system. We investigate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. H. Lubow , G. I. Ogilvie

Migration is a key ingredient for the formation of close-in super-Earth and mini-Neptune systems, as it sets in which resonances planets can be trapped. Slower migration rates result in wider resonance configurations compared to higher…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-18 Bertram Bitsch , Andre Izidoro

We assess the multi-planet systems discovered by the Kepler satellite in terms of current ideas about orbital migration and eccentricity damping due to planet-disk interactions. Our primary focus is on mean motion resonances. Only a few…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Peter Goldreich , Hilke E. Schlichting

TESS and Kepler have revealed that practically all close-in sub-Neptunes form in mean-motion resonant chains, most of which unravel on timescales of 100 Myr. Using N-body integrations, we study how planetary collisions from destabilized…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 Rixin Li , Eugene Chiang , Nick Choksi , Fei Dai

Gravitational coupling between a protoplanetary disc and an embedded eccentric planet is an important, long-standing problem, which has been not yet been conclusively explored. Here we study the torque and associated orbital evolution of an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Callum W. Fairbairn , Roman R. Rafikov

Pairs of extrasolar giant planets in a mean motion commensurability are common with 2:1 resonance occurring most frequently. Disc-planet interaction provides a mechanism for their origin. However, the time scale on which this could operate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-05 Q. André , J. C. B. Papaloizou

Capture into mean motion resonance (MMR) is an important dynamical mechanism as it shapes the final architecture of a planetary system. We simulate systems of two or three planets undergoing migration with varied initial parameters such as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 Kaltrina Kajtazi , Antoine C. Petit , Anders Johansen

We describe a method to extract resonant orbits from N-body simulations exploiting the fact that they close in a frame rotating with a constant pattern speed. Our method is applied to the N-body simulation of the Milky Way by Shen et al.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Matthew Molloy , Martin C. Smith , Juntai Shen , N. W. Evans

Short-period super-Earths and mini-Neptunes encircle more than $\sim50\%$ of Sun-like stars and are relatively amenable to direct observational characterization. Despite this, environments in which these planets accrete are difficult to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-04 Max Goldberg , Konstantin Batygin

We study global non-axisymmetric oscillation modes and instabilities in magnetosphere- disc systems, as expected in neutron star X-ray binaries and possibly also in accreting black hole systems. Our two-dimensional magnetosphere-disc model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-28 Wen Fu , Dong Lai

In this work, we investigate configuration formation of two inner terrestrial planets near mean motion resonance (MMRs) induced by the perturbation of a distant gas-giant for the Kepler-68 system, by conducting thousands of numerical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-10 Mengrui Pan , Su Wang , Jianghui Ji