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Eccentricity tides generate a torque that can drive an ocean planet towards asynchronous rotation states of equilibrium when enhanced by resonances associated with the oceanic tidal modes. We investigate the impact of eccentricity tides on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-18 Pierre Auclair-Desrotour , Jérémy Leconte , Emeline Bolmont , Stéphane Mathis

Stellar oscillations are excited in non-synchronously rotating stars in binary systems due to the tidal forces. Tangential components of the tides can drive a shear flow which behaves as a differentially forced rotating structure in a…

We provide a generalized discussion of tidal evolution to arbitrary order in the expansion of the gravitational potential between two spherical bodies of any mass ratio. To accurately reproduce the tidal evolution of a system at separations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Patrick A. Taylor , Jean-Luc Margot

(abbreviated) We consider the problem of the tidal capture or circularisation from large eccentricity of a uniformly rotating object. We extend the self-adjoint formalism introduced in Papaloizou \& Ivanov 2005 (PI) to derive general…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. B. Ivanov , J. C. B. Papaloizou

We present a new analytic study of the equilibrium and stability properties of close binary systems containing polytropic components. Our method is based on the use of ellipsoidal trial functions in an energy variational principle. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 D. Lai , F. A. Rasio , S. L. Shapiro

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

(Abbreviated) We extend the results of our 2021 paper concerning the problem of tidal evolution of a binary system with a rotating primary component with rotation axis arbitrarily inclined with respect to the orbital plane. Only the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-13 Pavel Ivanov , John Papaloizou

Due to the tidal forces that a black hole can produce, certain types of compact objects may undergo disruption as they approach the black hole. This disruption point is known as the Roche limit (or Roche radius). In this work, we studied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-06 Marcos V. de S. Silva

This report is a review of Darwin's classical theory of bodily tides in which we present the analytical expressions for the orbital and rotational evolution of the bodies and for the energy dissipation rates due to their tidal interaction.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-19 Sylvio Ferraz-Mello , Adrián Rodríguez , Hauke Hussmann

Many binary stellar systems in which the primary star is beyond the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) evolutionary phase show significant orbital eccentricities whereas current binary interaction models predict their orbits to be circularised.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. A. Bonacic Marinovic , E. Glebbeek , O. R. Pols

Highly eccentric binary systems appear in many astrophysical contexts, ranging from tidal capture in dense star clusters, precursors of stellar disruption by massive black holes, to high-eccentricity migration of giant planets. In a highly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Michelle Vick , Dong Lai

This paper reviews the rich corpus of observational evidence for tidal effects in short-period binaries. We review the evidence for ellipsoidal variability and for the observational manifestation of apsidal motion in eclipsing binaries.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tsevi Mazeh

We revisit the global modes and instabilities of homogeneous rotating ellipsoidal fluid masses, which are the simplest global models of rotationally and tidally deformed gaseous planets or stars. The tidal flow in a short-period planet may…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Adrian J. Barker , Harry J. Braviner , Gordon I. Ogilvie

We analyse how drag forces modify the orbits of objects moving through extended gaseous distributions. We consider how hydrodynamic (surface area) drag forces and dynamical friction (gravitational) drag forces drive the evolution of orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-13 Ákos Szölgyén , Morgan MacLeod , Abraham Loeb

We present a semi-analytic study of the equilibrium models of close binary systems containing a fluid star (mass $m$ and radius $R_0$) and a Kerr black hole (mass $M$) in circular orbit. We consider the limit $M\gg m$ where spacetime is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Paul Wiggins , Dong Lai

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

We investigate Roche lobe overflow mass transfer (MT) in eccentric binary systems between stars and compact objects (COs), modeling the coupled evolution of both the star and the orbit due to eccentric MT (eMT) in a self-consistent…

We investigate the dynamical evolution of hierarchical three-body systems under the effect of tides, when the ratio of the orbital semi-major axes is small and the mutual inclination is relatively large (greater than 20 degrees). Using the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-06 Alexandre C. M. Correia , Jacques Laskar , François Farago , Gwenaël Boué

Binary stars in eccentric orbits are frequently reported to present increasing levels of activity around periastron passage. In this paper we present results of a calculation from first principles of the velocity field on the surface of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-09 Gloria Koenigsberger , Edmundo Moreno

Context. Many critical physical processes, such as Roche lobe overflow, strain modern simulation methods due to their durations and multidimensionality. Aims. We employ a novel method of time-domain multidimensional simulations to provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-21 David Dickson