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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 of the multi-planet systems discovered to date have been notable for their compactness, with neighbouring planets closer together than any in the Solar System. Interestingly, planet-hosting stars have a wide range of ages, suggesting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Alysa Obertas , Christa Van Laerhoven , Daniel Tamayo

The dynamical stability of tightly packed exoplanetary systems remains poorly understood. While for a two-planet system a sharp stability boundary exists, numerical simulations of three and more planet systems show that they can experience…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Antoine C. Petit , Gabriele Pichierri , Melvyn B. Davies , Anders Johansen

The planetary dynamics of $4/3$, $3/2$, $5/2$, $3/1$ and $4/1$ mean motion resonances is studied by using the model of the general three body problem in a rotating frame and by determining families of periodic orbits for each resonance.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-10 K. I. Antoniadou , G. Voyatzis

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

A symplectic integrator algorithm suitable for hierarchical triple systems is formulated and tested. The positions of the stars are followed in hierarchical Jacobi coordinates, whilst the planets are referenced purely to their primary. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. E. Verrier , N. W. Evans

We analyze a tilt instability of the orbit of an outer planet in a two planet circumbinary system that we recently reported. The binary is on an eccentric orbit and the inner circumbinary planet is on a circular polar orbit that causes the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-17 Stephen H. Lubow , Anna C. Childs , Rebecca G. Martin

The degree of spin-orbit alignment in a population of binary stars can be determined from measurements of their orbital inclinations and rotational broadening of their spectral lines. Alignment in a face-on binary guarantees low rotational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-07 Marcus L. Marcussen , Simon H. Albrecht , Joshua N. Winn , Yubo Su , Mia S. Lundkvist , Kevin C. Schlaufman

Open clusters(OCs) are usually young and suitable for studying the formation and evolution of planetary systems. Hitherto, only four planets have been found with radial velocity measurements in OCs. Meanwhile, a lot of free-floating…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 Hui-Gen Liu , Hui Zhang , Ji-Lin Zhou

An Earth-analog orbiting within the habitable zone of $\alpha$ Centauri B was shown to undergo large variations in its obliquity, or axial tilt, which affects the planetary climate by altering the radiative flux for a given latitude. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-23 Billy Quarles , Gongjie Li , Jack J. Lissauer

The triple asteroids and triple Kuiper belt objects (collectively called the triple minor planets) in the Solar system are of particular interest to the scientific community since the discovery of the first triple asteroid system in 2004.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-20 Xiaodong Liu , Hexi Baoyin , Nikolaos Georgakarakos , John Richard Donnison , Xingrui Ma

Star-planet interactions play, among other things, a crucial role in planetary orbital configurations by circularizing orbits, aligning the star and planet spin and synchronizing stellar rotation with orbital motions. This is especially…

Compact binaries with orbital periods shorter than about 7 days show an absence of transiting planets, a feature known as the ``circumbinary planet desert". The physical mechanism behind this desert remains unclear. We investigate its…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Bin Liu , Dong Lai

We study the accretion efficiency of neutron stars in long-period binaries, i.e. with periods longer than about 200d, which accrete from a giant companion. Using alpha-disc models and taking into account the effect of irradiation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Ritter , A. King

We investigate the orbital dynamics of circumbinary planetary systems with two planets around a circular or eccentric orbit binary. The orbits of the two planet are initially circular and coplanar to each other, but misaligned with respect…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Cheng Chen , Stephen H. Lubow , Rebecca G. Martin

We study the evolution of circumstellar massive disks around the primary star of a binary system focusing on the computation of disk eccentricity. In particular, we concentrate on its dependence on the binary eccentricity. Self-gravity is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Marzari , H. Scholl , P. Thebault , C. Baruteau

Solar-like oscillations detected in both components of the binary system alpha Centauri provide strong constraints on the fundamental parameters of the stellar system. We model alpha Centauri by means of a Levenberg-Marquardt minimization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 Josefina Montalban , Andrea Miglio

Context: Rings around giant planets are a common feature of the solar system. Even though solar radiation pressure is known to destabilize rings by exciting the orbital eccentricity of its particles, the Centaur Chariklo (and possibly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-28 Zs. Regaly , V. Frohlich , Cs. Kiss

Instabilities and strong dynamical interactions between several giant planets have been proposed as a possible explanation for the surprising orbital properties of extrasolar planetary systems. In particular, dynamical instabilities would…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric B. Ford , Marketa Havlickova , Frederic A. Rasio

We provide a detailed theoretical study aimed at the observational finding about the nu Octantis binary system that indicates the possible existence of a Jupiter-type planet in this system. If a prograde planetary orbit is assumed, it has…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Billy Quarles , Manfred Cuntz , Zdzislaw E. Musielak