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Steady-State Size Distributions for Collisional Populations: Analytical Solution with Size-Dependent Strength
David P. O'Brien, Richard Greenberg
The steady-state population of bodies resulting from a collisional cascade depends on how material strength varies with size. We find a simple expression for the power-law index of…
Tides, planetary companions, and habitability: Habitability in the habitable zone of low-mass stars
Christa Van Laerhoven, Rory Barnes, Richard Greenberg
Earth-scale planets in the classical habitable zone (HZ) are more likely to be habitable if they possess active geophysics. Without a constant internal energy source, planets cool…
Spin-driven tidal pumping: Tidally driven changes in planetary spin coupled with secular interactions between planets
Richard Greenberg, Christa Van Laerhoven, Rory Barnes
In a multiplanet system, tides acting on the inner planet can significantly affect the orbital evolution of the entire system. While tides usually damp eccentricities, a novel mech…
The Roles of Tidal Evolution and Evaporative Mass Loss in the Origin of CoRoT-7 b
Brian Jackson, Neil Miller, Rory Barnes +3
CoRoT-7 b is the first confirmed rocky exoplanet, but, with an orbital semi-major axis of 0.0172 AU, its origins may be unlike any rocky planet in our solar system. In this study,…
Tidal effects on brown dwarfs: Application to the eclipsing binary 2MASSJ05352184-0546085 - The anomalous temperature reversal in the context of tidal heating
René Heller, Brian Jackson, Rory Barnes +2
2MASSJ05352184-0546085 (2M0535-05) is the only known eclipsing brown dwarf (BD) binary, and so may serve as an important benchmark for models of BD formation and evolution. However…
Tidal Constraints on Planetary Habitability
Rory Barnes, Brian Jackson, Richard Greenberg +2
We review how tides may impact the habitability of terrestrial-like planets. If such planets form around low-mass stars, then planets in the circumstellar habitable zone will be cl…