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Rotation axis variation due to spin orbit resonance: conference report; keywords: planetary precession, rigid body, chaos, KAM, Arnold diffusion, averaging, celestial mechanics, classical mechanics, large deviations

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Giovannni Gallavotti

The angle between the rotation and orbital axes of stars in binary systems -- the obliquity -- is an important indicator of how these systems form and evolve but few such measurements exist. We combine the sample of astrometric orbital…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Warrick H. Ball , Amaury H. M. J. Triaud , Emily Hatt , Martin B. Nielsen , William J. Chaplin

We build a conceptual coupled model of the climate and tidal evolution of the Earth-Moon system to find the influence of the former on the latter. An energy balance model is applied to calculate steady-state temperature field from the mean…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Nan Wang , Zhi-Guo He

The tilt of a planet's spin axis off its orbital axis ("obliquity") is a basic physical characteristic that plays a central role in determining the planet's global circulation and energy redistribution. Moreover, recent studies have also…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Sarah Millholland , Konstantin Batygin

(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

The model of magnetic braking of solar rotation considered by Charbonneau & MacGregor (1993) has been modified so that it is able to reproduce for the first time the rotational evolution of both the fastest and slowest rotators among…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Pavel A. Denissenkov

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

In this chapter, we explore how gravitational interactions drive turbulent flows inside planetary cores and provide an interesting alternative to convection to explain dynamo action and magnetic fields around terrestrial bodies. In the…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-07-04 Thomas Le Reun , Michael Le Bars

While the secondary in a binary asteroid plays an important role in the precession of the mutual orbit, this role has not been thoroughly studied. Given the complex spin-orbit coupled dynamics in binary asteroids, we use a numerical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-07 Alex J Meyer , Daniel J Scheeres

The orbital dynamics of a spacecraft orbiting around irregular small celestial bodies is a challenging problem. Difficulties to model the gravity field of these bodies arise from the poor knowledge of the exact shape as observed from the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 L. B. T. Santos , L. O. Marchi , P. A. Sousa-Silva , D. M. Sanchez , S. Aljbaae , A. F. B. A. Prado

In this paper, written as a general historical and technical introduction to the various review papers collected in the special issue ``Solar and Stellar Dynamo: A New Era'', we review the evolution and current state of dynamo theory and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Paul Charbonneau , Dmitry Sokoloff

Having a massive moon has been considered as a primary mechanism for stabilized planetary obliquity, an example of which being our Earth. This is, however, not always consistent with the exoplanetary cases. This article details the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 Renyi Chen , Gongjie Li , Molei Tao

The planetary obliquity plays a significant role in determining physical properties of planetary surfaces and climate. As direct detection is constrained due to the present observation accuracy, kinetic theories are helpful to predict the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-04 Xiumin Huang , Jianghui Ji , Shangfei Liu , Ruobing Dong , Su Wang

We discuss a model describing the effects of tidal dissipation on satellite's orbits. Tidal bulges are described in terms of a dumbbell, coupled to the rotation by a dissipative interaction. The assumptions on this dissipative coupling…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-08 Benedetto Scoppola , Alessio Troiani , Matteo Veglianti

Polar vortices are common planetary flows that encircle the pole in the middle or high latitudes, and are observed on most of the solar systems' planetary atmospheres. The polar vortices on Earth, Mars, and Titan are dynamically related to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-28 Ilai Guendelman , Darryn W. Waugh , Yohai Kaspi

Many exoplanets have been observed close to their parent stars with orbital periods of a few days. As for the major satellites of the Jovian planets, the figure of these planets is expected to be strongly shaped by tidal forces. However,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-05 Alexandre C. M. Correia , Adrian Rodriguez

In close binary systems, rotation and tidal forces of the component stars deform each other and destroy their spherical symmetry. We present new models for low-mass, pre-main sequence stars that include the combined distortion effects of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 N. R. Landin , L. T. S. Mendes , L. P. R. Vaz

The spin-rotation of a planet arises from the accretion of angular momentum during its formation, but the details of this process are still unclear. In the solar system, the equatorial rotation velocities and spin angular momentum of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-01 Ignas Snellen , Bernhard Brandl , Remco de Kok , Matteo Brogi , Jayne Birkby , Henriette Schwarz

This paper deals with the application of the creep tide theory (Ferraz-Mello, CeMDA 116, 109, 2013) to the rotation of close-in satellites, Mercury, close-in exoplanets and their host stars. The solutions show two extreme cases: close-in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-31 Sylvio Ferraz-Mello

As planets form and grow within gaseous protoplanetary disks, the mutual gravitational interaction between the disk and planet leads to the exchange of angular momentum, and migration of the planet. We review current understanding of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 W. Kley , R. P. Nelson