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It is known, that possibility to capture on a satellite orbit is decreased with primary orbital eccentricity increasing. It means, that satellites of planet on eccentric orbit are less stable. We study problem by analytical and numeric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-26 Alexey Rosaev

Discoveries of exoplanets orbiting evolved stars motivate critical examinations of the dynamics of $N$-body systems with mass loss. Multi-planet evolved systems are particularly complex because of the mutual interactions between the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 George Voyatzis , John D. Hadjidemetriou , Dimitri Veras , Harry Varvoglis

Recent ground-based microlensing surveys suggest that our Galaxy may abound with small free floating planets, potentially up to $\sim$21 such planets per star. We explore the implication of such possibility on the mass budget for planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Eve J. Lee , William DeRocco , Sam Hadden , B. Scott Gaudi

We present the first prediction for the mass distribution function of Galactic free-floating planets (FFPs) that aims to accurately include the relative contributions of multiple formation pathways and stellar populations. We derive our…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-23 Gavin A. L. Coleman , William DeRocco

Circumstantial evidence suggests that most known extra-solar planetary systems are survivors of violent dynamical instabilities. Here we explore how giant planet instabilities affect the formation and survival of terrestrial planets. We…

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

We explore planet formation in binary systems around the central star where the protoplanetary disk plane is highly inclined with respect to the companion star orbit. This might be the most frequent scenario for binary separations larger…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Marzari , P. Thebault , H. Scholl

The most puzzling property of the extrasolar planets discovered by recent radial velocity surveys is their high orbital eccentricities, which are very difficult to explain within our current theoretical paradigm for planet formation.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Genya Takeda , Frederic A. Rasio

We investigate the dynamics of a nonzero mass, circular orbit planet around an eccentric orbit binary for various values of the binary eccentricity, binary mass fraction, planet mass, and planet semi--major axis by means of numerical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Cheng Chen , Alessia Franchini , Stephen H. Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin

The Kepler satellite has discovered a number of transiting planets around close binary stars. These circumbinary systems have highly aligned planetary and binary orbits. In this paper, we explore how the mutual inclination between the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-19 Francois Foucart , Dong Lai

The discovery of planetary systems beyond our solar system has challenged established theories of planetary formation. Planetary orbits display a variety of unexpected architectures, and free-floating planets appear ubiquitous. The recent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-06 Yihan Wang , Rosalba Perna , Zhaohuan Zhu

More than half of stars reside in binary or multiple star systems and many planets have been found in binary systems. From theoretical point of view, however, whether or not the planetary formation proceeds in a binary system is a very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Junichiro Makino

Studying the orbital stability of multi-planet systems is essential to understand planet formation, estimate the stable time of an observed planetary system, and advance population synthesis models. Although previous studies have primarily…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-01 Sheng Yang , Liangyu Wu , Zekai Zheng , Masahiro Ogihara , Kangrou Guo , Wenzhan Ouyang , Yaxing He

Changes in planetary obliquity, or axial tilt, influence the climates on Earth-like planets. In the solar system, the Earth's obliquity is stabilized due to interactions with our moon and the resulting {small amplitude variations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-04 Billy Quarles , Gongjie Li , Jack J. Lissauer

Microlensing surveys suggest the presence of a surprisingly large population of free-floating planets, with a rate of about two Neptunes per star. The origin of such objects is not known, neither do we know if they are truly unbound or are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Sam Hadden , Yanqin Wu

Small planets ($R_{p} \leq 4 R_{\oplus}$) are divided into rocky super-Earths and gaseous sub-Neptunes separated by a radius gap, but the mechanisms that produce these distinct planet populations remain unclear. Binary stars are the only…

Compact planetary systems with more than two planets can undergo orbital crossings from planet-planet perturbations. The time which the system remains stable without orbital crossings has an exponential dependence on the initial orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 David R. Rice , Jason H. Steffen

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

We study the final architecture of planetary systems that evolve under the combined effects of planet-planet and planetesimal scattering. Using N-body simulations we investigate the dynamics of marginally unstable systems of gas and ice…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Sean N. Raymond , Philip J. Armitage , Noel Gorelick

Detached circumplanetary disks are unstable to tilting as a result of the stellar tidal potential. We examine how a tilted circumplanetary disk affects the evolution of the spin axis of an oblate planet. The disk is evolved using…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Rebecca G. Martin , Philip J. Armitage