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Tidal evolution of packed moon systems around an Earth-mass planet
Alan Briseño, Billy Quarles, Marialis Rosario-Franco
While missions have long targeted terrestrial exoplanets within the habitable zone of their host stars, the number of exomoon candidates is expected to grow as next generation spac…
Tidally Torn: Why the Most Common Stars May Lack Large, Habitable-Zone Moons
Shaan D. Patel, Billy Quarles, Nevin N. Weinberg +1
Earth-like planets in the habitable zone (HZ) of M-dwarfs have recently been targeted in the search for exomoons. We study the stability and lifetime of large (Luna-like) moons, ac…
Can Moons Exist around the Habitable-zone Planet K2-18b?
Shaan D. Patel, Billy Quarles, Manfred Cuntz +1
K2-18b closely orbits a nearby M3 dwarf within its habitable zone, where this planet could be either a super-Earth or a mini-Neptune. Recent studies using transit spectroscopy sugg…
Orbital Stability of Hierarchical 3 and 4-Body Systems with Inclination: Results for Kepler-1625, 1708, and HD 23079
Shaan D. Patel, Billy Quarles, Manfred Cuntz
As the number of potential exomoon candidates grows, there is a heightened motivation of pursing orbital stability analyses. In this work, we provide an in-depth investigation into…
More Realistic Planetesimal Masses Alter Kuiper Belt Formation Models and Add Stochasticity
Nathan A. Kaib, Alex Parsells, Simon Grimm +2
We perform simulations here that include the gravitational effects of the primordial planetesimal belt consisting of ~10^5 massive bodies. In our simulations, Neptune unlocks from…
The three-body problem
Z. E. Musielak, B. Quarles
The three-body problem, which describes three masses interacting through Newtonian gravity without any restrictions imposed on the initial positions and velocities of these masses,…
On the Possibility of Habitable Moons in the System of HD 23079: Results from Orbital Stability Studies
M. Cuntz, B. Quarles, J. Eberle +1
The aim of our study is to investigate the possibility of habitable moons orbiting the giant planet HD 23079b, a Jupiter-mass planet, which follows a low-eccentricity orbit in the…