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astro-ph2008

Planetary Transits and Tidal Evolution

Brian Jackson, Rory Barnes, Richard Greenberg

Transiting planets are generally close enough to their host stars that tides may govern their orbital and thermal evolution of these planets. We present calculations of the tidal e…

astro-ph2008146 cited

Tidal Heating of Terrestrial Extra-Solar Planets and Implications for their Habitability

Brian Jackson, Rory Barnes, Richard Greenberg

The tidal heating of hypothetical rocky (or terrestrial) extra-solar planets spans a wide range of values depending on stellar masses and initial orbits. Tidal heating may be suffi…

astro-ph2008122 cited

Tides and the Evolution of Planetary Habitability

Rory Barnes, Sean N. Raymond, Brian Jackson +1

Tides raised on a planet by its host star's gravity can reduce a planet's orbital semi-major axis and eccentricity. This effect is only relevant for planets orbiting very close to…

astro-ph2008183 cited

Tidal Heating of Extra-Solar Planets

Brian Jackson, Richard Greenberg, Rory Barnes

Extra-solar planets close to their host stars have likely undergone significant tidal evolution since the time of their formation. Tides probably dominated their orbital evolution…

astro-ph2008394 cited

Tidal Evolution of Close-in Extra-Solar Planets

Brian Jackson, Richard Greenberg, Rory Barnes

The distribution of eccentricities e of extra-solar planets with semi-major axes a > 0.2 AU is very uniform, and values for e are generally large. For a < 0.2 AU, eccentricities ar…

astro-ph20082 cited

Tidal Evolution of Close-in Extra-Solar Planets

Brian Jackson, Richard Greenberg, Rory Barnes

The distribution of eccentricities e of extra-solar planets with semi-major axes a > 0.2 AU is very uniform, and values for e are relatively large, averaging 0.3 and broadly distri…