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Motivated by the large number of compact extrasolar planetary systems discovered by the Kepler Mission, this paper considers perturbations due to possible additional outer planets. The discovered compact systems sometimes contain multiple…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Juliette C. Becker , Fred C. Adams

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

Star-planet interactions play, among other things, a crucial role in planetary orbital configurations by circularizing orbits, aligning the star and planet spin and synchronizing stellar rotation with orbital motions. This is especially…

The discovery of over 400 extrasolar planets allows us to statistically test our understanding of formation and dynamics of planetary systems via numerical simulations. Traditional N-body simulations of multiple-planet systems without gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Soko Matsumura , Edward W. Thommes , Sourav Chatterjee , Frederic A. Rasio

We aim to investigate the influence of the eccentricity and inclination damping due to planet-disc interactions on the final configurations of the systems, generalizing previous studies on the combined action of the gas disc and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-09 Sotiris Sotiriadis , Anne-Sophie Libert , Bertram Bitsch , Aurélien Crida

We compute the strengths of zero-th order (in eccentricity) three-body resonances for a co-planar and low eccentricity multiple planet system. In a numerical integration we illustrate that slowly moving Laplace angles are matched by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Alice C. Quillen

We combine analytical understanding of resonant dynamics in two-planet systems with machine learning techniques to train a model capable of robustly classifying stability in compact multi-planet systems over long timescales of $10^9$…

The long-term stability of the evolution of two-planet systems is considered by using the general three body problem (GTBP). Our study is focused on the stability of systems with adjacent orbits when at least one of them is highly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-10 Kyriaki I. Antoniadou , George Voyatzis

This paper explores the intermediate-time dynamics of newly formed solar systems with a focus on possible mechanisms for planetary migration. We consider two limiting corners of the available parameter space -- crowded systems containing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Fred C. Adams , Greg Laughlin

This paper is a review of the dynamics of a system of planets. It includes the study of averaged equations in both non-resonant and resonant systems and shows the great deal of situations in which the angle between the two semi-major axes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Ferraz-Mello , T. A. Michtchenko , C. Beauge

The dominant mechanism for generating free-floating planets has so far remained elusive. One suggested mechanism is that planets are ejected from planetary systems due to planet-planet interactions. However, instability around a single star…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-25 Cheng Chen , Rebecca G. Martin , Stephen H. Lubow , C. J. Nixon

There is evidence that most chains of mean motion resonances of type $k$:$k-1$ among exoplanets become unstable once the dissipative action from the gas is removed from the system, particularly for large $N$ (the number of planets) and $k$…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Gabriele Pichierri , Alessandro Morbidelli

Migration of planetary systems caused by the action of dissipative forces may lead the planets to be trapped in a resonance. In this work we study the conditions and the dynamics of such resonant trapping. Particularly, we are interested in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 George Voyatzis

When exploring the stability of multiplanet systems in binaries, two parameters are normally exploited: the critical semimajor axis ac computed by Holman and Wiegert (1999) within which planets are stable against the binary perturbations,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 F. Marzari , G. Gallina

Understanding the stability of exoplanet systems is crucial for constraining planetary formation and evolution theories. We use the machine-learning stability indicator, SPOCK, to characterize the stability of 126 high-multiplicity systems…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 Matthew J. Doty , Lauren M. Weiss , Matthias Y. He , Antoine C. Petit

Many exoplanets in close-in orbits are observed to have relatively high eccentricities and large stellar obliquities. We explore the possibility that these result from planet-planet scattering by studying the dynamical outcomes from a large…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-24 Cristobal Petrovich , Scott Tremaine , Roman R. Rafikov

Most stars form in star clusters and stellar associated. To understand the roles of star cluster environments in shaping the dynamical evolution of planetary systems, we carry out direct $N$-body simulations of four planetary systems models…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-15 Maxwell Xu Cai , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Simon F. Portegies Zwart , Rainer Spurzem

Planets have been observed in tight binary systems with separations less than 20 AU. A likely formation scenario for such systems involves a dynamical capture, after which high relative inclinations are likely and may lead to Kozai…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Lamya Saleh , Frederic Rasio

Many exoplanets are discovered in binary star systems in internal or in circumbinary orbits. Whether the planet can be habitable or not depends on the possibility to maintain liquid water on its surface, and therefore on the luminosity of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 G. De Cesare , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta

Mass and radius of planets transiting their host stars are provided by radial velocity and photometric observations. Structural models of solid exoplanet interiors are then constructed by using equations of state for the radial density…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-15 F. Sohl , F. W. Wagner , H. Rauer