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The presence of a giant planet in a low-viscosity disc can create a gap edge in the disc's radial density profile sharp enough to excite the Rossby Wave Instability. This instability may evolve into dust-trapping vortices that might explain…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Michael Hammer , Kaitlin M. Kratter , Min-Kai Lin

The magnetospheres of the outer planets exhibit turbulent phenomena in an environment which is qualitatively different compared to the solar wind or the interstellar medium. The key differences are the finite sizes of the magnetospheres…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-27 Joachim Saur

The zonal winds on the surfaces of giant planets vary with latitude. Jupiter and Saturn, for example, have several bands of alternating eastward (prograde) and westward (retrograde) jets relative to the angular velocity of their global…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gary A. Glatzmaier , Martha Evonuk , Tamara M. Rogers

We analyze the long-term tidal evolution of a single-planet system through the use of numerical simulations and averaged equations giving the variations of semi-major axis and eccentricity of the relative orbit. For different types of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Adrian Rodriguez , Sylvio Ferraz-Mello

The study of lava planets has attracted significant attention recently because of their close proximity to their host stars, which enhances their detectability for atmospheric characterization. Previous studies showed that the atmospheric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 Zhuo-Yang Song , Feng Ding , Wanying Kang

Double white dwarf (WD) binaries are increasingly being discovered at short orbital periods where strong tidal effects and significant tidal heating signatures may occur. We assume the tidal potential of the companion excites outgoing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-28 Peter Scherbak , Jim Fuller

Two formation scenarios have been proposed to explain the tight orbits of hot Jupiters. They could be formed in orbits with a small inclination (with respect to the stellar spin) via disk migration, or in more highly inclined orbits via…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Francesca Valsecchi , Frederic A. Rasio

We consider the evolution of a system containing a population of massive planets formed rapidly through a fragmentation process occurring on a scale on the order of 100 au and a lower mass planet that assembles in a disc on a much longer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Caroline Terquem , John C. B. Papaloizou

Tidal Downsizing (TD) is a recently developed planet formation theory that supplements the classical Gravitational disc Instability (GI) model with planet migration inward and tidal disruptions of GI fragments in the inner regions of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Sergei Nayakshin

The TRAPPIST-1 system is sufficiently closely packed that tides raised by one planet on another are significant. We investigate whether this source of tidal heating is comparable to eccentricity tides raised by the star. Assuming a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Hamish Hay , Isamu Matsuyama

In this paper we present a series of models for the deep water cycle on super-Earths experiencing plate tectonics. The deep water cycle can be modeled through parameterized convection models coupled with a volatile recycling model. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Laura Schaefer , Dimitar Sasselov

Ultra-short-period exoplanets like K2-141 b likely have magma oceans on their dayside, which play a critical role in redistributing heat within the planet. This could lead to a warm nightside surface, measurable by the James Webb Space…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Charles Le Losq , Clément Ferraina , Paolo A. Sossi , Charles-Édouard Boukaré

We provide estimates of volcanism versus time for planets with Earth-like composition and masses from 0.25 to 25 times Earth, as a step toward predicting atmospheric mass on extrasolar rocky planets. Volcanism requires melting of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-24 Edwin S. Kite , Michael Manga , Eric Gaidos

Thermal atmospheric tides have a strong impact on the rotation of terrestrial planets. They can lock these planets into an asynchronous rotation state of equilibrium. We aim at characterizing the dependence of the tidal torque resulting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Pierre Auclair-Desrotour , Jérémy Leconte , Cyril Mergny

The interaction between a planet located in the inner region of a disc and the warped outer region is studied. We consider the stage of evolution after the planet has cleared-out a gap, so that the planetary orbit evolves only under the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Caroline Terquem

We review the formation of large-scale heterogeneity in the solid Earth from the magma ocean phase to the present day, focusing on lower-mantle structure and evolution, as well as continental formation and its impact on interior-exterior…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Takashi Nakagawa , Charitra Jain , Diogo L. Lourenco , Maxim D. Baller , Paul J. Tackley

Planets with large moon(s) or those in the habitable zone of low-mass stars may experience much stronger tidal force and tide-induced ocean mixing than that on Earth. Thus, the vertical diffusivity (or, more precisely, diapycnal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Yidongfang Si , Jun Yang , Yonggang Liu

We use a linear shallow-water model to investigate the global circulation of the atmospheres of tidally locked planets. Simulations, observations, and simple models show that if these planets are sufficiently rapidly rotating, their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Mark Hammond , Raymond T. Pierrehumbert

Dynamical tide consists of various waves that can resonate with orbital motion. We test this coupling of dynamical tide and orbital motion using a simple two-dimensional shallow water model, which can be applied to a rocky planet covered…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Xing Wei

Low-mass stars appear to frequently host planetary systems. When these rocky planets develop high eccentricities as a result of secular torques or dynamical scatterings, they occasionally pass close to the host star. In these close…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-05 Abraham Loeb , Morgan MacLeod