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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…
astro-ph2006★ 111 cited
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…
astro-ph2006★ 60 cited
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…