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We investigate the condition for capture into first-order mean motion resonances using numerical simulations with a wide range of various parameters. In particular, we focus on deriving the critical migration timescale for capture into the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Masahiro Ogihara , Hiroshi Kobayashi

We present a series of dynamical maps for fictitious 3-planets systems in initially circular coplanar orbits. These maps have unveiled a rich resonant structure involving two or three planets, as well as indicating possible migration routes…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 C. Charalambous , J. G. Martí , C. Beaugé , X. S. Ramos

Mean motion resonances (MMRs) are a key phenomenon in orbital dynamics. The traditional disturbing function expansion in celestial mechanics shows that, at low eccentricities, $p$:$p-q$ MMRs exhibit a clear hierarchy of strengths, scaling…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-12 Elizabeth K Jones , Samuel Hadden , Supakrai Teekamongkol , Daniel Tamayo

We present a theoretical framework for investigating a two-planet system undergoing convergent type I migration in a protoplanetary disk. Our study identifies the conditions for resonant capture and subsequent dynamical stability. By…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 Linghong Lin , Beibei Liu , Zekai Zheng

In this work, we investigate configuration formation of two inner terrestrial planets near mean motion resonance (MMRs) induced by the perturbation of a distant gas-giant for the Kepler-68 system, by conducting thousands of numerical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-10 Mengrui Pan , Su Wang , Jianghui Ji

TRAPPIST-1 is an 0.09 $M_{\odot}$ star, which harbours a system of seven Earth-sized planets. Two main features stand out: (i) all planets have similar radii, masses, and compositions; and (ii) all planets are in resonance. Previous works…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Shuo Huang , Chris W. Ormel

Mean motion resonances (MMRs) are a generic outcome of convergent migration for bodies embedded in accretion disks around a central mass. Long studied in planetary systems, the same phenomenon should occur for stellar-mass black holes (BHs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-16 Marguerite Epstein-Martin , Nicholas Stone , Juliette Becker

Exoplanet systems with multiple planets in mean motion resonances have often been hailed as a signpost of disk driven migration. Resonant chains like Kepler-223 and Kepler-80 consist of a trio of planets with the three-body resonant angle…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Sarah J. Morrison , Rebekah I. Dawson , Mariah G. MacDonald

We study the establishment of three-planet resonances -similar to the Laplace resonance in the Galilean satellites- and their effects on the mutual inclinations of the orbital planes of the planets, assuming that the latter undergo…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. -S. Libert , K. Tsiganis

Trappist-1 hosts 7 planets where period ratios of neighbouring pairs are close to the 8:5, 5:3, 3:2, 3:2, 4:3, and 3:2 ratios in increasing distance from the star. The Laplace angles associated with neighbouring triplets are observed to be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-26 Gabriele Pichierri , Alessandro Morbidelli , Konstantin Batygin , Ramon Brasser

Mean motion resonances are a common feature of both our own Solar System and of extrasolar planetary systems. Bodies can be trapped in resonance when their orbital semi-major axes change, for instance when they migrate through a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Alexander Mustill , Mark Wyatt

Planet-planet scattering is the leading mechanism to explain the large eccentricities of the observed exoplanet population. However, scattering has not been considered important to the production of pairs of planets in mean motion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sean N. Raymond , Rory Barnes , Philip J. Armitage , Noel Gorelick

TRAPPIST-1 is a late M-dwarf orbited by seven Earth-sized planets with orbital period ratios near a chain of mean motion resonances. Due to uncertain system parameters, most orbital configurations drawn from the inferred posterior…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Daniel Tamayo , Hanno Rein , Cristobal Petrovich , Norman Murray

The observed census of resonant extrasolar planets spans a tantalizing display of orbital architectures, ranging from familiar 2:1 and 3:2 mean-motion commensurabilities to nearly co-orbital configurations characterized by period ratios…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Konstantin Batygin , Alessandro Morbidelli

The formation of multiple close-in low-mass exoplanets is still a mystery. The challenge is to build a system wherein the outermost planet is beyond 0.2 AU from the star. Here we investigate how the prescription for type I planet migration…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 R. Brasser , S. Matsumura , T. Muto , S. Ida

This paper presents a generalized treatment of Type I planetary migration in the presence of stochastic perturbations. In many planet-forming disks, the Type I migration mechanism, driven by asymmetric torques, acts on a short time scale…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Fred C. Adams , Anthony M. Bloch

Multiple planets undergoing disk migration may be captured into a chain of mean-motion resonances with the innermost planet parked near the disk's inner edge. Subsequent dynamical evolution may disrupt these resonances, leading to the…

The differential migration of two planets due to planet-disk interaction can result in capture into the 2:1 eccentricity-type mean-motion resonances. Both the sequence of 2:1 eccentricity resonances that the system is driven through by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Man Hoi Lee , Edward W. Thommes

A question driving many studies is whether the thousands of exoplanets known today typically formed where we observe them or formed further out in the disk and migrated in. Early discoveries of giant exoplanets orbiting near their host…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Mariah G. MacDonald , Rebekah I. Dawson

Protoplanetary disks are thought to be truncated at orbital periods of around 10 days. Therefore, origin of rocky short period planets with $P < 10$ days is a puzzle. We propose that many of these planets may form through the Type-I…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Daniel Carrera , Eric B. Ford , Andre Izidoro