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Dependence of a planet's chaotic zone on particle eccentricity: the shape of debris disc inner edges
Alexander J. Mustill, Mark C. Wyatt
The orbit of a planet is surrounded by a chaotic zone wherein nearby particles' orbits are chaotic and unstable. Wisdom (1980) showed that the chaos is driven by the overlap of mea…
The Great Escape: How Exoplanets and Smaller Bodies Desert Dying Stars
Dimitri Veras, Mark C. Wyatt, Alexander J. Mustill +2
Mounting discoveries of extrasolar planets orbiting post-main sequence stars motivate studies aimed at understanding the fate of these planets. In the traditional "adiabatic" appro…
Dynamical effects of stellar mass loss on a Kuiper-like belt
Amy Bonsor, Alexander Mustill, Mark Wyatt
A quarter of DA white dwarfs are metal polluted, yet elements heavier than helium sink down through the stellar atmosphere on timescales of days. Hence, these white dwarfs must be…