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We propose and evaluate the feasibility of a new strategy to search for planets via microlensing. This new strategy is designed to detect planets in "wide" orbits, i.e., with orbital separation, $a$ greater than $\sim 1.5 R_E$. Planets in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Rosanne Di Stefano , Richard A. Scalzo

A space-based gravitational microlensing exoplanet survey will provide a statistical census of exoplanets with masses greater than 0.1 Earth-masses and orbital separations ranging from 0.5AU to infinity. This includes analogs to all the…

In this work we revisit the problem of the dynamical stability of hierarchical triple systems with applications to circumbinary planetary orbits. We carry out more than 3 10^8 numerical simulations of planets between the size of Mercury and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Nikolaos Georgakarakos , Siegfried Eggl , Mohamad Ali-Dib , Ian Dobbs-Dixon

Diffusive scaling of position moments and a central limit theorem are obtained for the mean position of a quantum particle hopping on a cubic lattice and subject to a random potential consisting of a large static part and a small part that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Jeffrey Schenker

In this article, we prove the global well-posedness and scattering of the cubic focusing infinite coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger system on $\mathbb{R}^2$ below the threshold in $L_x^2h^1(\mathbb{R}^2\times \mathbb{Z})$. We first establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Xing Cheng , Zihua Guo , Gyeongha Hwang , Haewon Yoon

The discovery of numerous free-floating planets (FFPs) has intensified interest in their origins and dynamical histories. A leading formation mechanism is planet-planet scatterings in unstable multi-planetary systems, which can naturally…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Xiumin Huang , Dong Lai

The general covariance of the diffusion equation is exploited in order to explore the curvature effects appearing on brownian motion over a d-dimensional curved manifold. We use the local frame defined by the so called Riemann normal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Pavel Castro-Villarreal

We analytically work out the long-term variations caused on the motion of a planet orbiting a star by a very distant, pointlike massive object X. Apart from the semi-major axis a, all the other Keplerian osculating orbital elements…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Lorenzo Iorio

In this article, we describe a very simple technique to locate naked-eye planets in the sky, to an accuracy of $\sim 1^{\circ}$. The procedure, comprising just three steps, involves very simple manual calculations for planetary orbits…

Popular Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Ashok K. Singal

The daily variation of the solar photocenter over some 11 years is derived from the Mount Wilson data reprocessed by Ulrich et al. 2010 to closely match the surface distribution of solar irradiance. The standard deviations of astrometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 V. V. Makarov , D. Parker , R. K. Ulrich

The dynamical interaction of minor bodies (such as comets or asteroids) with planets plays an essential role in the planetary system's architecture and evolution. As a result of these interactions, structures like the Kuiper belt and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Santiago Torres , Smadar Naoz , Gongjie Li , Sanaea C. Rose

We present an analytical and numerical study of the orbital migration and resonance capture of fictitious two-planet systems with masses in the super-Earth range undergoing Type-I migration. We find that, depending on the flare index and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 X. S. Ramos , C. Charalambous , P. Benítez-Llambay , C. Beaugé

The long-term evolution of the solar system is chaotic. In some cases, chaotic diffusion caused by an overlap of secular resonances can increase the eccentricity of planets when they enter into a linear secular resonance, driving the system…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-13 Garett Brown , Hanno Rein

This paper is an initial stage of consideration of the general problem of joint modeling of the vertical structure of a Galactic flat subsystem and the average surface of the disk of the Galaxy, taking into account the natural and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-11 Igor' I. Nikiforov , Vadim A. Usik , Angelina V. Veselova

We develop a general method to fit the planetary distribution function (PLDF) to exoplanet survey data. This maximum likelihood method accommodates more than one planet per star and any number of planet or target star properties.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Andrew N. Youdin

This paper presents synthetic observations of long-lived, coorbiting asteroids of Mercury, Venus, the Earth and Mars. Our sample is constructed by taking the limiting semimajor axes, differential longitudes and inclinations for long-lived…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. W. Evans , S. A. Tabachnik

Orbital systems are often self-organized and/or characterized by harmonic relations. Inspired by music theory, we rewrite the Geddes and King-Hele (QJRAS, 24, 10-13, 1983) equations for mirror symmetries among the distances of the planets…

Popular Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Michael J. Bank , Nicola Scafetta

This paper considers the dynamics of scattering of planetesimals or planetary embryos by a planet on a circumstellar orbit. We classify six regions in the planet's mass versus semimajor axis parameter space according to the dominant outcome…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 M. C. Wyatt , A. Bonsor , A. P. Jackson , S. Marino , A. Shannon

A significant fraction of unstable multiple planet systems likely scatter during the transitional disc phase as gas damping becomes ineffectual. Using an ensemble of FARGO hydrodynamic simulations and MERCURY n-body integrations, we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Nickolas Moeckel , Philip J. Armitage

Considering a sample of 31 exoplanetary systems detected by gravitational microlensing, we investigate whether or not the estimated distances to these systems conform to the Galactic distribution of planets expected from models. We derive…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 Matthew T. Penny , Calen B. Henderson , Christian Clanton