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This work shows the dynamical instability that can happen to close-in satellites when planet oblateness is not accounted for in non-coplanar multiplanet systems. Simulations include two secularly interacting Jupiter-mass planets mutually…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yu-Cian Hong , Matthew S. Tiscareno , Philip D. Nicholson , Jonathan I. Lunine

A new era of directly imaged extrasolar planets has produced a three-planet system (Marois et al. 2008), where the masses of the planets have been estimated by untested cooling models. We point out that the nominal circular, face-on orbits…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Daniel C. Fabrycky , Ruth A. Murray-Clay

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

Binary-star exoplanetary systems are now known to be common, for both wide and close binaries. However, their orbital evolution is generally unsolvable. Special cases of the N-body problem which are in fact completely solvable include…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-07 Dimitri Veras

Numerical N-body simulations are commonly used to explore stability regions around exoplanets, offering insights into the possible existence of satellites and ring systems. This study aims to utilize Machine Learning (ML) techniques to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Tiago F. L. L. Pinheiro , Rafael Sfair , Giovana Ramon

To date, 17 circumbinary planets have been discovered. In this paper, we focus our attention on the stability of the Kepler circumbinary planetary systems with only one planet, i.e. Kepler-16, Kepler-34, Kepler-35, Kepler-38, Kepler-64 and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-01 C. E. Chavez , N. Georgakarakos , S. Prodan , M. Reyes-Ruiz , H. Aceves

The planetary dynamics of $4/3$, $3/2$, $5/2$, $3/1$ and $4/1$ mean motion resonances is studied by using the model of the general three body problem in a rotating frame and by determining families of periodic orbits for each resonance.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-10 K. I. Antoniadou , G. Voyatzis

Thousands of confirmed and candidate exoplanets have been identified in recent years. Consequently, theoretical research on the formation and dynamical evolution of planetary systems has seen a boost, and the processes of planet-planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-06 M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Qi Shu , Maxwell Xu Cai , Rainer Spurzem

We explore the orbital dynamics of systems consisting of three planets, each as massive as the Earth, on coplanar, initially circular, orbits about a star of one solar mass. The initial semimajor axes of the planets are equally spaced in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Jack J. Lissauer , Sacha Gavino

A survey of currently known planet-hosting stars indicates that approximately 25% of extrasolar planetary systems are within dual-star environments. Several of these systems contain stellar companions on moderately close orbits, implying…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-25 Nader Haghighipour

Whether binaries can harbor potentially habitable planets depends on several factors including the physical properties and the orbital characteristics of the binary system. While the former determines the location of the habitable zone…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Nader Haghighipour , Rudolf Dvorak , Elke Pilat-Lohinger

One of the most important developments in exoplanet science in the past decade is the discovery of multi-planet systems with sub-Neptune-sized planets interior to 1~AU. This chapter explores the architectures of these planetary systems,…

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

The stability limit for circumbinary planets (CBPs) is not well defined and can depend on initial parameters defining either the planetary orbit or the inner binary orbit. We expand on the work of Holman & Wiegert (1999, AJ 117, 621) to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Billy Quarles , Suman Satyal , Veselin Kostov , Nathan Kaib , Nader Haghighipour

Nearly every star known to host planets will become a white dwarf, and nearly 100 planet-hosts are now known to be accompanied by binary stellar companions. Here, we determine how a binary companion triggers instability in otherwise…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Dimitri Veras , Nikolaos Georgakarakos , Ian Dobbs-Dixon , Boris T. Gaensicke

This paper investigates the long-term orbital stability of small bodies near the central binary of the Alpha Centauri system. Test particles on circular orbits are integrated in the field of this binary for 32000 binary periods or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Paul A. Wiegert , Matt Holman

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

Planet Planet scattering is a leading dynamical mechanism invoked to explain the present orbital distribution of exoplanets. Many stars belong to binary systems, therefore it is important to understand how this mechanism works in presence…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Francesco Marzari , Makiko Nagasawa , Krzyszof Goździewski

A large sample of planet-planet scattering events for three planet systems with different orbital separations and masses is analyzed with a multiple regression model. The dependence of the time for the onset of instability on the masses of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Francesco Marzari

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
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