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Aero-Resonant Migration
Natalia I. Storch, Konstantin Batygin
The process of planet conglomeration, which primarily unfolds in a geometrically thin disk of gas and dust, is often accompanied by dynamical excitation of the forming planets and…
Eccentricity and Spin-Orbit Misalignment in Short-Period Stellar Binaries as a Signpost of Hidden Tertiary Companions
Kassandra R. Anderson, Dong Lai, Natalia I. Storch
Eclipsing binaries are observed to have a range of eccentricities and spin-orbit misalignments (stellar obliquities). Whether such properties are primordial, or arise from post-for…
Dynamics of Stellar Spin Driven by Planets Undergoing Lidov-Kozai Migration: Paths to Spin-Orbit Misalignment
Natalia I. Storch, Dong Lai, Kassandra R. Anderson
Many exoplanetary systems containing hot Jupiters (HJs) exhibit significant misalignment between the spin axes of the host stars and the orbital angular momentum axes of the planet…
Formation and Stellar Spin-Orbit Misalignment of Hot Jupiters from Lidov-Kozai Oscillations in Stellar Binaries
Kassandra R. Anderson, Natalia I. Storch, Dong Lai
Observed hot Jupiter (HJ) systems exhibit a wide range of stellar spin-orbit misalignment angles. The origin of these HJs remains unclear. This paper investigates the inward migrat…
Analytical Model of Tidal Distortion and Dissipation for a Giant Planet with a Viscoelastic Core
Natalia I. Storch, Dong Lai
We present analytical expressions for the tidal Love numbers of a giant planet with a solid core and a fluid envelope. We model the core as a uniform, incompressible, elastic solid…
Chaotic Dynamics of Stellar Spin Driven by Planets Undergoing Lidov-Kozai Oscillations: Resonances and Origin of Chaos
Natalia I. Storch, Dong Lai
Many exoplanetary systems containing hot Jupiters are found to possess significant misalignment between the spin axis of the host star and the planet's orbital angular momentum axi…
Chaotic Dynamics of Stellar Spin in Binaries and the Production of Misaligned Hot Jupiters
Natalia I. Storch, Kassandra R. Anderson, Dong Lai
Many exoplanetary systems containing hot Jupiters are observed to have highly misaligned orbital axes relative to the stellar spin axes. Kozai-Lidov oscillations of orbital eccentr…
The Light Curve and Internal Magnetic Field of the Mode-Switching Pulsar PSR B0943+10
Natalia I. Storch, Wynn C. G. Ho, Dong Lai +2
A number of radio pulsars exhibit intriguing mode-switching behavior. Recent observations of PSR B0943+10 revealed correlated radio and X-ray mode switches, providing a new avenue…
Non-radial Oscillations in Rotating Giant Planets with Solid Cores: Application to Saturn and its Rings
Jim Fuller, Dong Lai, Natalia I. Storch
Recent observations have revealed evidence for the global oscillations of Jupiter and Saturn, which can potentially provide a new window into the interior structure of giant planet…
Viscoelastic Tidal Dissipation in Giant Planets and Formation of Hot Jupiters Through High-Eccentricity Migration
Natalia I Storch, Dong Lai
We study the possibility of tidal dissipation in the solid cores of giant planets and its implication for the formation of hot Jupiters through high-eccentricity migration. We pres…