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Globular Clusters as Testbeds for Type Ia Supernovae
Eric Pfahl, Evan Scannapieco, Lars Bildsten
Fundamental mysteries remain regarding the physics of Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) and their stellar progenitors. We argue here that important clues to these questions may emerge by t…
Observational Techniques for Detecting Planets in Binary Systems
Matthew W. Muterspaugh, Maciej Konacki, Benjamin F. Lane +1
Searches for planets in close binary systems explore the degree to which stellar multiplicity inhibits or promotes planet formation. There is a degeneracy between planet formation…
Ellipsoidal Oscillations Induced by Substellar Companions: A Prospect for the Kepler Mission
Eric Pfahl, Phil Arras, Bill Paxton
Hundreds of substellar companions to solar-type stars will be discovered with the Kepler satellite. Kepler's extreme photometric precision gives access to low-amplitude stellar var…
Evolution of the Obliquities of the Giant Planets in Encounters during Migration
Man Hoi Lee, S. J. Peale, Eric Pfahl +1
Tsiganis et al. (2005) have proposed that the current orbital architecture of the outer solar system could have been established if it was initially compact and Jupiter and Saturn…
Fragmentation of Collapsar Disks and the Production of Gravitational Waves
Anthony L. Piro, Eric Pfahl
We argue that gravitational instability in the outer parts of collapsar disks may lead to fragmentation near the radius where helium photodisintegrates, because of the strong cooli…
Impact of Stellar Dynamics on the Frequency of Giant Planets in Close Binaries
Eric Pfahl, Matthew Muterspaugh
Hostile tidal forces may inhibit the formation of Jovian planets in binaries with semimajor axes of $\la$$50\au$, binaries that might be called ``close'' in this context. As an alt…