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most citedChaotic Tides in Migrating Gas Giants: Forming Hot and Transient Warm Jupiters via High-Eccentricity Migration

84 citations · 157 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.HE2020

Tidal Dissipation Impact on the Eccentric Onset of Common Envelope Phases in Massive Binary Star Systems

Michelle Vick, Morgan MacLeod, Dong Lai +1

Tidal dissipation due to turbulent viscosity in the convective regions of giant stars plays an important role in shaping the orbits of pre-common envelope systems. Such systems are…

astro-ph.SR2019

Tidal Evolution of Eccentric Binaries Driven by Convective Turbulent Viscosity

Michelle Vick, Dong Lai

Tidal dissipation due to convective turbulent viscosity shapes the evolution of a variety of astrophysical binaries. For example, this type of dissipation determines the rate of or…

astro-ph.HE2019

Tidal Effects in Eccentric Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries

Michelle Vick, Dong Lai

Dynamically formed compact object binaries may still be eccentric while in the LIGO/Virgo band. For a neutron star (NS) in an eccentric binary, the fundamental modes (f-modes) are…

astro-ph.EP201963 cited

Formation of Hot Jupiters through Secular Chaos and Dynamical Tides

Jean Teyssandier, Dong Lai, Michelle Vick

The population of giant planets on short-period orbits can potentially be explained by some flavours of high-eccentricity migration. In this paper we investigate one such mechanism…

astro-ph.SR201810 cited

Polygram Stars: Resonant Tidal Excitation of Fundamental Oscillation Modes in Asynchronous Stellar Coalescence

Morgan MacLeod, Michelle Vick, Dong Lai +1

The prevalence of binary stars at close separations implies that many of these systems will interact or merge during the binary's lifetime. This paper presents hydrodynamic simulat…

astro-ph.EP201884 cited

Chaotic Tides in Migrating Gas Giants: Forming Hot and Transient Warm Jupiters via High-Eccentricity Migration

Michelle Vick, Dong Lai, Kassandra R. Anderson

High-eccentricity migration is an important channel for the formation of hot Jupiters (HJs). In particular, Lidov-Kozai (LK) oscillations of orbital eccentricity/inclination induce…