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Parameter Effects in Circumplanetary Disk Spectra and Prospects for Spectral Fitting
Xilei Sun, Gabriel-Dominique Marleau, Shang-Fei Liu
With the commissioning of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), near- and mid-infrared observations are rapidly extending into the wavelength regime where emission from small dust…
The 3D Architecture of a pair of 6:1 Resonant Brown Dwarfs around the Naked-eye star Ophiuchi
Tianshenhong Sang, Guang-Yao Xiao, Ying-Yi Cao +8
We present a revisiting study of the brown dwarf pair orbiting the naked-eye () K-giant ~Ophiuchi, located only 44\,pc from our Solar system. By jointly analysing archiva…
Misaligned circumbinary discs around unequal-mass eccentric binaries: alignment, morphology, and binary accretion variability
Ruiqi Yang, Jeremy L. Smallwood, Hongping Deng +4
Binary systems are ubiquitous in the Universe and often host circumbinary discs that are misaligned with the binary orbital plane. Such misalignments can affect disc evolution and…
Nii-body: Bayesian Inference of Multiplanet Dynamics via N-body Simulations
Hong-Fei Jia, Sheng Jin, Dong-Hong Wu +1
Many exoplanetary systems are multiplanet configurations whose long-term dynamics are governed by N-body gravitational interactions. Consequently, their detection signatures cannot…
Breaking the Mass Inclination Degeneracy of Radial Velocity Measurements via Monitoring von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai Cycles: Implications in the HD 41004 System
Zhizhen Qin, Shang-Fei Liu, Bo Ma +1
We investigate the dynamical stability of the S-type planet in the compact binary HD 41004. Using -body simulations, we find that the planet could be dynamically stable at a mut…
Fate of the remnant in tidal stripping event: repeating and non-repeating
Jin-Hong Chen, Lixin Dai, Shang-Fei Liu +1
Tidal disruption events (TDE) occur when a star ventures too close to a massive black hole. In a partial TDE (pTDE), the star only grazes the tidal radius, causing the outer envelo…
Observational characteristics of circum-planetary-mass-object disks in the era of James Webb Space Telescope
Xilei Sun, Pinghui Huang, Ruobing Dong +1
Recent observations have confirmed circumplanetary disks (CPDs) embedded in parental protoplanetary disks (PPDs). On the other hand, planetary-mass companions (PMCs) and planetary-…
White dwarf magnetospheres: Shielding volatile content of icy objects and implications for volatile pollution scarcity
Wen-Han Zhou, Shang-Fei Liu, Douglas N. C. Lin
Context. About 25% -- 50% of white dwarfs are found to be contaminated by heavy elements, which are believed to originate from external sources such as planetary materials. Element…
Observability of substructures in planet-forming disk in (sub)cm wavelength with SKA and ngVLA
Yinhao Wu, Shang-Fei Liu, Haochang Jiang +1
Current imaging observations of protoplanetary disks using ALMA primarily focus on the sub-millimeter wavelength, leaving a gap in effective observational approaches for centimeter…
Planetesimal Growth in Evolving Protoplanetary Disks: Constraints from the Pebble Supply
Tong Fang, Hui Zhang, Shangfei Liu +2
In the core accretion model, planetesimals grow by mutual collisions and engulfing millimeter-to-centimeter particles, i.e., pebbles. Pebble accretion can significantly increase th…
Tidal Stripping of a White Dwarf by an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole
Jin-Hong Chen, Rong-Feng Shen, Shang-Fei Liu
During the inspiralling of a white dwarf (WD) into an intermediate-mass black hole (~ 10^{2-5} M_sun), both gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) radiation are emitted…
Observable tests for the light-sail scenario of interstellar objects
Wen-Han Zhou, Shang-Fei Liu, Yun Zhang +1
We scrutinize the light sail scenario of the first interstellar object (ISO) 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua) by making comparisons between physical models and observational constraints. The…
The Measurement of Dynamic Tidal Contribution to Apsidal Motion in Heartbeat Star KIC 4544587
Jian-wen Ou, Cong Yu, Ming Yang +5
Apsidal motion is a gradual shift in the position of periastron. The impact of dynamic tides on apsidal motion has long been debated, because the contribution could not be quantifi…
Orbital migration and circularization of tidal debris by Alfvén-wave drag: circumstellar debris and pollution around white dwarfs
Yun Zhang, Shang-Fei Liu, Douglas N. C. Lin
A significant fraction of white dwarfs (WDs) exhibit signs of ongoing accretion of refractory elements at rates -- kg s, among which, 37 WDs were detected to…
The Formation of Jupiter's Diluted Core by a Giant Impact
Shang-Fei Liu, Yasunori Hori, Simon Müller +4
The Juno mission has provided an accurate determination of Jupiter's gravitational field, which has been used to obtain information about the planet's composition and internal stru…
Science with a ngVLA: Imaging planetary systems in the act of forming with the ngVLA
Luca Ricci, Andrea Isella, Shang-Fei Liu +1
The discovery of thousands of exoplanets has shown that the birth of planets is a very efficient process in nature. Several physical mechanisms have been proposed to describe the a…
Witnessing Planetary Systems in the Making with the Next Generation Very Large Array
Luca Ricci, Andrea Isella, Sean M. Andrews +19
The discovery of thousands of exoplanets over the last couple of decades has shown that the birth of planets is a very efficient process in nature. Theories invoke a multitude of m…
Investigating the early evolution of planetary systems with ALMA and the Next Generation Very Large Array
Luca Ricci, Shang-Fei Liu, Andrea Isella +1
We investigate the potential of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) to observe substructures in nearby young di…
Giant Impact: An Efficient Mechanism for the Devolatilization of Super-Earths
Shang-Fei Liu, Yasunori Hori, D. N. C. Lin +1
Mini-Neptunes and volatile-poor super-Earths coexist on adjacent orbits in proximity to host stars such as Kepler-36 and Kepler-11. Several post-formation processes have been propo…
Embryo impacts and gas giant mergers II: Diversity of Hot Jupiters' internal structure
Shang-Fei Liu, Craig B. Agnor, D. N. C. Lin +1
We consider the origin of compact, short-period, Jupiter-mass planets. We propose that their diverse structure is caused by giant impacts of embryos and super-Earths or mergers wit…
On the Survivability and Metamorphism of Tidally Disrupted Giant Planets: the Role of Dense Cores
Shang-Fei Liu, James Guillochon, Douglas N. C. Lin +1
A large population of planetary candidates in short-period orbits have been found through transit searches. Radial velocity surveys have also revealed several Jupiter-mass planets…
REBOUND: An open-source multi-purpose N-body code for collisional dynamics
Hanno Rein, Shang-Fei Liu
REBOUND is a new multi-purpose N-body code which is freely available under an open-source license. It was designed for collisional dynamics such as planetary rings but can also sol…