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Rotation contributes to internal mixing processes and observed variability in massive stars. A significant number of binary stars are not in strict synchronous rotation, including all eccentric systems. This leads to a tidally induced and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Gloria Koenigsberger , Edmundo Moreno , Norbert Langer

In the near-Earth asteroid population, binary and triple systems have been discovered with mutual orbits that have significant eccentricities as well as large semi-major axes. All known systems with eccentric orbits and all widely-separated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Julia Fang , Jean-Luc Margot

Context: Resonances in the stellar orbital motion under perturbations from spiral arms structure play an important role in the evolution of the disks of spiral galaxies. The epicyclic approximation allows the determination of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-20 Tatiana A. Michtchenko , Ronaldo S. S. Vieira , Douglas A. Barros , Jacques R. D. Lépine

We use perturbation theory and bifurcation theory to analyze the dynamical behavior of resonances, associated to a model describing a particle moving within a ring around a celestial object. The central body is modeled as a homogeneous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Alessandra Celletti , Irene De Blasi , Sara Di Ruzza

We observe fine structure in the resonance spectra of optical microcavities. We identify the polarization-resolved modes in the spectrum and find that resonance frequencies split in accordance with the theoretical prediction. The observed…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-15 C. Koks , F. B. Baalbergen , M. P. van Exter

Compact binary systems with spinning components are considered. Finite size effects due to rotational deformation are taken into account. The dynamical evolution and next to leading order gravitational wave forms are calculated, taking into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Dörte Hansen

A Hamiltonian formulation is given for the gravitational dynamics of two spinning compact bodies to next-to-leading order ($G/c^4$ and $G^2/c^4$) in the spin-orbit interaction. We use a novel approach (valid to linear order in the spins),…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thibault Damour , Piotr Jaranowski , Gerhard Schäfer

In general, small bodies of the solar system, e.g., asteroids and comets, have a very irregular shape. This feature affects significantly the gravitational potential around these irregular bodies, which hinders dynamical studies. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-19 Gabriel Borderes Motta , Othon Cabo Winter

Mean motion resonances play a fundamental role in the dynamics of the small bodies of the Solar System. The last decades of the 20th century gave us a detailed description of the dynamics as well as the process of capture of small bodies in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Tabare Gallardo

While the secondary in a binary asteroid plays an important role in the precession of the mutual orbit, this role has not been thoroughly studied. Given the complex spin-orbit coupled dynamics in binary asteroids, we use a numerical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 Alex J Meyer , Daniel J Scheeres

The motion of circular WP for one electron in central Coulomb field with high Z is calculated. The WP is defined in terms of solutions of the Dirac equation in order to take into account all possible relevant effects in particular the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Arvieu , P. Rozmej , M. Turek

About a dozen exoplanetary systems have been discovered with three or more planets participating in a sequence of mean-motion resonances. The unique and complex architectures of these so-called "resonant chains" motivate efforts to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-30 Sarah C. Millholland , Teo Lara , Jan Toomlaid

The stellar spin orientation relative to the orbital planes of multiplanet systems are becoming accessible to observations. Here, we analyze and classify different types of spin-orbit evolution in compact multiplanet systems perturbed by an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Gwenaël Boué , Daniel Fabrycky

Spin-orbit coupling is a single-particle phenomenon known to generate topological order, and electron-electron interactions cause ordered many-body phases to exist. The rich interplay of these two mechanisms is present in a broad range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Weizhe Edward Liu , Stefano Chesi , David Webb , U. Zuelicke , R. Winkler , Robert Joynt , Dimitrie Culcer

This paper aims to study the configuration of two components caused by rotational and tidal distortions in the model of a binary system. The potentials of the two distorted components can be approximated to 2nd-degree harmonics.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. F. Song , Z. Zhong , Y. Lu

This work investigates different models of rotational dynamics of two rigid bodies with the shape of an ellipsoid, moving under their gravitational influence. The focus of this study is on their behavior, their linear stability, and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Adrián P. Bustamante , Alessandra Celletti , Christoph Lhotka

While numerous planetary and asteroid satellites show evidence for non-trivial rotation states, none are as emblematic as Hyperion, which has long been held as the most striking example of chaotic spin-orbit evolution in the Solar System.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-28 Max Goldberg , Konstantin Batygin

The case of the classical Hill problem is numerically investigated by performing a thorough and systematic classification of the initial conditions of the orbits. More precisely, the initial conditions of the orbits are classified into four…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-07 Euaggelos E. Zotos

Binary asteroid formation is a highly complex process, which has been highlighted with recent observations of satellites with unexpected shapes, such as the oblate Dimorphos by the NASA DART mission and the contact binary Selam by NASA's…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-23 John Wimarsson , Zhen Xiang , Fabio Ferrari , Martin Jutzi , Gustavo Madeira , Sabina D. Raducan , Paul Sánchez

Some quadruple star systems in the hierarchical 2+2 configuration exhibit orbit-orbit resonances between the two compact binaries. We show that the most important resonances occur at period ratios of 1:1, 3:2 and 2:1. We describe the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Scott Tremaine