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astro-ph.EP2011★ 179 cited
Adding particle collisions to the formation of asteroids and Kuiper belt objects via streaming instabilities
Anders Johansen, Andrew Youdin, Yoram Lithwick
Modelling the formation of super-km-sized planetesimals by gravitational collapse of regions overdense in small particles requires numerical algorithms capable of handling simultan…
astro-ph.EP2011★ 414 cited
Secular Dynamics in Hierarchical Three-Body Systems
Smadar Naoz, Will M. Farr, Yoram Lithwick +2
The secular approximation for the evolution of hierarchical triple configurations has proven to be very useful in many astrophysical contexts, from planetary to triple-star systems…
astro-ph.EP2011★ 256 cited
The Eccentric Kozai Mechanism for a Test Particle
Yoram Lithwick, Smadar Naoz
We study the dynamical evolution of a test particle that orbits a star in the presence of an exterior massive planet, considering octupole-order secular interactions. In the standa…