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astro-ph.EP2014★ 62 cited
Tidal dissipation in a homogeneous spherical body. I. Methods
Michael Efroimsky, Valeri V. Makarov
A formula for the tidal dissipation rate in a spherical body is derived from first principles, to correct some mathematical inaccuracies found in the literature. The development is…
astro-ph.EP2014★ 50 cited
Tidal dissipation in a homogeneous spherical body. II. Three examples: Mercury, Io, and Kepler-10 b
Valeri V. Makarov, Michael Efroimsky
In Efroimsky & Makarov (2014), we derived from the first principles a formula for the tidal heating rate in a tidally perturbed homogeneous sphere. We compared it with the formulae…