Overstable librations can account for the paucity of mean motion resonances among exoplanet pairs

We assess the multi-planet systems discovered by the Kepler satellite in terms of current ideas about orbital migration and eccentricity damping due to planet-disk interactions. Our primary focus is on first order mean motion resonances, which we investigate analytically to lowest order in eccentric...

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Main Authors: Goldreich, Peter (Author), Schlichting, Hilke (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2015-01-05T21:48:21Z.
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