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Understanding the consequences of the gravitational interaction between a star and a planet is fundamental to the study of exoplanets. The solution of the two-body problem shows that the planet moves in an elliptical path around the star…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-28 Carl D. Murray , Alexandre C. M. Correia

Mounting discoveries of extrasolar planets orbiting post-main sequence stars motivate studies aimed at understanding the fate of these planets. In the traditional "adiabatic" approximation, a secondary's eccentricity remains constant during…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Dimitri Veras , Mark C. Wyatt , Alexander J. Mustill , Amy Bonsor , John J. Eldridge

The Hill Restricted 4-Body Problem (HR4BP) is a coherent time-periodic model that can be used to represent motion in the Sun-Earth-Moon (SEM) system. Periodic orbits were computed in this model to better understand the periodic orbit family…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Gavin M. Brown , Luke T. Peterson , Damennick B. Henry , Daniel J. Scheeres

Among the hundred or so extrasolar planets discovered to date, 19 are orbiting a component of a double or multiple star system. In this paper, we discuss the properties of these planets and compare them to the characteristics of planets…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Eggenberger , S. Udry , M. Mayor

Exoplanetary systems are found not only among single stars, but also binaries of widely varying parameters. Binaries with separations of 100--1000 au are prevalent in the Solar neighborhood; at these separations planet formation around a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Nickolas Moeckel , Dimitri Veras

The three-body problem, which describes three masses interacting through Newtonian gravity without any restrictions imposed on the initial positions and velocities of these masses, has attracted the attention of many scientists for more…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-11 Z. E. Musielak , B. Quarles

The dynamics near the Lagrange equilibria $L_1$ and $L_2$ of the Circular Restricted Three-body Problem has gained attention in the last decades due to its relevance in some topics such as the temporary captures of comets and asteroids and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Rocio Isabel Paez , Massimiliano Guzzo

Near-rectilinear halo orbits (NRHOs) around Earth-Moon L2 in the Circular Restricted 3-Body Problem (CR3BP) exhibit a complex dynamical landscape, featuring a band of normally elliptic orbits embedded within regions of strong instability.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Joan Gimeno , Luke T. Peterson

The population of close-in super-Earths, with gas mass fractions of up to 10% represents a challenge for planet formation theory: how did they avoid runaway gas accretion and collapsing to hot Jupiters despite their core masses being in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 Nicolas P. Cimerman , Rolf Kuiper , Chris W. Ormel

We present a solution to the long outstanding meter barrier problem in planet formation theory. As solids spiral inward due to aerodynamic drag, they will enter disk regions that are characterized by high temperatures, densities, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Aaron C. Boley , Melissa A. Morris , Eric B. Ford

Most of the observed extrasolar planets are found on tight and often eccentric orbits. The high eccentricities are not easily explained by planet-formation models, which predict that planets should be on rather circular orbits. Here we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Daniel Malmberg , Melvyn B. Davies , Douglas C. Heggie

The influence of the irregular forces on the evolution of a triple hierarchical stellar system moving in the field of stars have been studied. Triple hierarchical stellar systems are stable in contrary to the stellar systems with comparable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-25 Nina A. Solovaya

The planetary restricted three-body problem (RTBP) is considered. The primary mass M is much more than another masses mj, i=1..N, which revolve around M. The massless probe particle m moves on elliptic orbit, is perturbed by mj. It is well…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. E. Rosaev

Motivated by the current search for exomoons, this paper considers the stability of tidal equilibrium for hierarchical three-body systems containing a star, a planet, and a moon. In this treatment, the energy and angular momentum budgets…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Fred C. Adams , Anthony M. Bloch

It is known, that possibility to capture on a satellite orbit is decreased with primary orbital eccentricity increasing. It means, that satellites of planet on eccentric orbit are less stable. We study problem by analytical and numeric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-26 Alexey Rosaev

Many planets are observed in stellar binary systems, and their frequency may be comparable to that of planetary systems around single stars. Binary stellar evolution in such systems influences the dynamical evolution of the resident…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Kaitlin M. Kratter , Hagai B. perets

Most of the planetary systems discovered around binary stars are located at approximately three semi-major axes from the barycentre of their system, curiously close to low-order mean-motion resonances (MMRs). The formation mechanism of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Emmanuel Gianuzzi , Cristian A. Giuppone , Nicolás Cuello

Previously, we have considered the equations of motion of the three-body problem in a Lagrange form (which means a consideration of relative motions of 3-bodies in regard to each other). Analyzing such a system of equations, we considered…

General Physics · Physics 2017-05-26 Sergey V. Ershkov

Although current sensitivity limits are such that true Solar System analogs remain challenging to detect, numerous planetary systems have been discovered that are very different from our own Solar System. The majority of systems harbor a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Niraj K. Inamdar , Hilke E. Schlichting

We consider the planar circular equilateral restricted four body-problem where a test particle of infinitesimal mass is moving under the gravitational attraction of three primary bodies which move on circular orbits around their common…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-28 Euaggelos E. Zotos