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The efficiency of tidal dissipation provides a zeroth-order link to a planet's physical properties. For super-Earth and sub-Neptune planets in the range $R_{\oplus}\lesssim R_p \lesssim 4 R_{\oplus}$, particularly efficient dissipation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Emma Louden , Gregory Laughlin , Sarah Millholland

We perform one of the first studies into the nonlinear evolution of tidally excited inertial waves in a uniformly rotating fluid body, exploring a simplified model of the fluid envelope of a planet (or the convective envelope of a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 B. Favier , A. J. Barker , C. Baruteau , G. I. Ogilvie

Tidal dissipation in star-planet systems occurs through various mechanisms, including the precessional instability. This is an instability of laminar flows (``Poincar\'{e} flows") forced by axial precession of a rotating, oblate, spin-orbit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Nils B. de Vries , Adrian J. Barker , Rainer Hollerbach

Tidally-excited inertial waves in stellar convective regions are a key mechanism for tidal dissipation in stars and therefore the evolution of close-in binary or planetary systems. As a first step, we explore here the impact of latitudinal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 M. Guenel , C. Baruteau , S. Mathis , M. Rieutord

In recent years it has been shown that the tidal coupling between extrasolar planets and their stars could be an important mechanism leading to orbital evolution. Both the tides the planet raises on the star and vice versa are important and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Kaloyan Penev , Dimitar Sasselov

Since 1995, more than 1500 exoplanets have been discovered around a large diversity of host stars (from M- to A-type stars). Tidal dissipation in stellar convective envelopes is a key actor that shapes the orbital architecture of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 S. Mathis

Tidal dissipation due to convective turbulent viscosity shapes the evolution of a variety of astrophysical binaries. For example, this type of dissipation determines the rate of orbital circularization in a binary with a post-main sequence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-13 Michelle Vick , Dong Lai

Astrophysical fluid bodies that orbit close to one another induce tidal distortions and flows that are subject to dissipative processes. The spin and orbital motions undergo a coupled evolution over astronomical timescales, which is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Gordon I. Ogilvie

The orbits of short-period exoplanets are sculpted by tidal dissipation. However, the mechanisms and associated efficiencies of these tidal interactions are poorly constrained. We present robust constraints on the tidal quality factors of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-17 Sarah C. Millholland , Morgan MacLeod , Felicia Xiao

Tidal interactions influence the orbital motions of binary star systems and extrasolar planets alike. Tides also affect stellar and planetary rotation rates. We demonstrate that in addition to altering spin synchronization and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Janosz W. Dewberry

Tidal interactions play an important role in many astrophysical systems, but uncertainties regarding the tides of rapidly rotating, centrifugally distorted stars and gaseous planets remain. We have developed a precise method for computing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Janosz W. Dewberry , Dong Lai

Tidal dissipation is known as one of the main drivers of the secular evolution of planetary systems. It directly results from dissipative mechanisms that occur in planets and stars' interiors and strongly depends on the structure and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 P. Auclair-Desrotour , S. Mathis , C. Le Poncin-Lafitte

In this paper we develop a theory of disturbances induced by the stellar tidal field in a fully convective slowly rotating planet orbiting on a highly eccentric orbit around a central star. We show that there are two contributions to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. B. Ivanov , J. C. B. Papaloizou

It has been suggested that tidal interaction is important for shaping the orbital configurations of close orbiting giant planets. The excitation of propagating waves and normal modes (dynamical tide) will be important for estimating time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 J. C. B. Papaloizou , G. J. Savonije

Gravitational tidal interactions drive long-term rotational and orbital evolution in planetary systems, in multiple (particularly close binary) star systems and in planetary moon systems. Dissipation of tidal flows in Earth's oceans is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 Adrian J. Barker

Aims: Revisit and improvement of the main results obtained in the study of the tidal evolution of several massive CoRoT planets and brown dwarfs and of the rotation of their host stars. Methods: Simulations of the past and future evolution…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-21 Sylvio Ferraz-Mello

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

As the observed occurrence for planets or stellar companions orbiting low and intermediate-mass evolved stars is increasing, so does the importance of understanding and evaluating the strength of their interactions. One of the fundamental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 M. Esseldeurs , S. Mathis , L. Decin

Earth-like planets have anelastic mantles, whereas giant planets may have anelastic cores. As for the fluid parts of a body, the tidal dissipation of such solid regions, gravitationally perturbed by a companion body, highly depends on its…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-03 F. Remus , S. Mathis , J. -P. Zahn , V. Lainey

We use the distribution of extrasolar planets in circular orbits around stars with surface convective zones detected by ground based transit searches to constrain how efficiently tides raised by the planet are dissipated on the parent star.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Kaloyan Penev , Brian Jackson , Federico Spada , Nicole Thom