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20202022
most citedPlanetary Spin and Obliquity from Mergers

24 citations · 37 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

astro-ph.EP20221 cited

Resonant Excitation of Planetary Eccentricity due to a Dispersing Eccentric Protoplanetary Disk: A New Mechanism of Generating Large Planetary Eccentricities

Jiaru Li, Dong Lai

We present a new mechanism of generating large planetary eccentricities. This mechanism applies to planets within the inner cavities of their companion protoplanetary disks. A mass…

astro-ph.EP202112 cited

Ring Formation in Protoplanetary Disks Driven by an Eccentric Instability

Jiaru Li, Adam M. Dempsey, Hui Li +1

We find that, under certain conditions, protoplanetary disks may spontaneously generate multiple, concentric gas rings without an embedded planet through an eccentric cooling insta…

astro-ph.HE2021

Orbital evolution of binary black holes in active galactic nucleus disks: a disk channel for binary black hole mergers?

Ya-Ping Li, Adam M. Dempsey, Shengtai Li +2

We perform a series of high-resolution 2D hydrodynamical simulations of equal-mass binary black holes (BBHs) embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) accretion disks to study whet…

astro-ph.EP2020

Giant Planet Scatterings and Collisions: Hydrodynamics, Merger-Ejection Branching Ratio, and Properties of the Remnants

Jiaru Li, Dong Lai, Kassandra R. Anderson +1

Planetary systems with sufficiently small orbital spacings can experience planetary mergers and ejections. The branching ratio of mergers vs ejections depends sensitively on the tr…

astro-ph.EP202024 cited

Planetary Spin and Obliquity from Mergers

Jiaru Li, Dong Lai

In planetary systems with sufficiently small inter-planet spacing, close encounters can lead to planetary collisions/mergers or ejections. We study the spin property of the merger…