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Tidal dissipation may be important for the internal evolution as well as the orbits of short-period massive planets--hot Jupiters. We revisit a mechanism proposed by Ogilvie and Lin for tidal forcing of inertial waves, which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Jeremy Goodman , Claire Lackner

Tidal dissipation in stars is one of the key physical mechanisms that drive the evolution of binary and multiple stars. As in the Earth oceans, it corresponds to the resonant excitation of their eigenmodes of oscillation and their damping.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Auclair-Desrotour , S. Mathis , C. Le Poncin-Lafitte

The orbits of short-period exoplanets are sculpted by tidal dissipation. However, the mechanisms and associated efficiencies of these tidal interactions are poorly constrained. We present robust constraints on the tidal quality factors of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-17 Sarah C. Millholland , Morgan MacLeod , Felicia Xiao

Astrophysical fluid bodies that orbit close to one another induce tidal distortions and flows that are subject to dissipative processes. The spin and orbital motions undergo a coupled evolution over astronomical timescales, which is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Gordon I. Ogilvie

We use the distribution of extrasolar planets in circular orbits around stars with surface convective zones detected by ground based transit searches to constrain how efficiently tides raised by the planet are dissipated on the parent star.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Kaloyan Penev , Brian Jackson , Federico Spada , Nicole Thom

We simulate the nonlinear hydrodynamical evolution of tidally-excited inertial waves in convective envelopes of rotating stars and giant planets modelled as spherical shells containing incompressible, viscous and adiabatically-stratified…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-07 Aurélie Astoul , Adrian J. Barker

Gravitational tidal interactions drive long-term rotational and orbital evolution in planetary systems, in multiple (particularly close binary) star systems and in planetary moon systems. Dissipation of tidal flows in Earth's oceans is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 Adrian J. Barker

In close exoplanetary systems, tidal interactions drive orbital and spin evolution of planets and stars over long timescales. Tidally-forced inertial waves (restored by the Coriolis acceleration) in the convective envelopes of low-mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 A. Astoul , A. J. Barker

Tidal dissipation is responsible for circularizing the orbits and synchronizing the spins of solar-type close binary stars, but the mechanisms responsible are not fully understood. Previous work has indicated that significant enhancements…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Adrian J. Barker

Tidal interactions between moons and planets can have major effects on the orbits, spins, and thermal evolution of the moons. In the Saturn system, tidal dissipation in the planet transfers angular momentum from Saturn to the moons, causing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Jim Fuller , Tristan Guillot , Stephane Mathis , Carl Murray

Tidal interactions influence the orbital motions of binary star systems and extrasolar planets alike. Tides also affect stellar and planetary rotation rates. We demonstrate that in addition to altering spin synchronization and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Janosz W. Dewberry

In this paper we develop a theory of disturbances induced by the stellar tidal field in a fully convective slowly rotating planet orbiting on a highly eccentric orbit around a central star. We show that there are two contributions to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. B. Ivanov , J. C. B. Papaloizou

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

I discuss two related nonlinear mechanisms of tidal dissipation that require finite tidal deformations for their operation: the elliptical instability and the precessional instability. Both are likely to be important for the tidal evolution…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-24 Adrian J. Barker

Tidal dissipation in star-planet systems occurs through various mechanisms, including the precessional instability. This is an instability of laminar flows (``Poincar\'{e} flows") forced by axial precession of a rotating, oblate, spin-orbit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-30 Nils B. de Vries , Adrian J. Barker , Rainer Hollerbach

Oceanic tides are a major source of tidal dissipation. They drive the evolution of planetary systems and the rotational dynamics of planets. However, 2D models commonly used for the Earth cannot be applied to extrasolar telluric planets…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Pierre Auclair-Desrotour , Stéphane Mathis , Jacques Laskar , Jérémy Leconte

Since 1995, more than 1500 exoplanets have been discovered around a large diversity of host stars (from M- to A-type stars). Tidal dissipation in stellar convective envelopes is a key actor that shapes the orbital architecture of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 S. Mathis

In rotating stars and planets, excitation of inertial waves in convective envelopes provides an important channel for tidal dissipation, but the dissipation rate due to inertial waves depends erratically on the tidal frequency. Tidal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-29 Yufeng Lin , Gordon I. Ogilvie

In recent years it has been shown that the tidal coupling between extrasolar planets and their stars could be an important mechanism leading to orbital evolution. Both the tides the planet raises on the star and vice versa are important and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Kaloyan Penev , Dimitar Sasselov

Recent observations and theoretical progress made about the history of the Earth-Moon system suggest that tidal dissipation in oceans primarily drives the long term evolution of orbital systems hosting ocean planets. Particularly, they…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-11 Pierre Auclair-Desrotour , Mohammad Farhat , Gwenaël Boué , Mickaël Gastineau , Jacques Laskar