Tidal Dissipation in Dual-Body, Highly Eccentric, and Non-synchronously Rotating Systems

Joe Renaud - Universities Space Research Association / NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterMar 15, 2021
Formation & evolution
Planet interiors
tidal dynamics
geophysics
orbital dynamics
exoplanets
pluto
tides
rheology
spin dynamics
Using the Sundberg-Cooper rheology, we apply several improvements to the tidal evolution of short-period, rocky exoplanets and the early history of Pluto-Charon under the simplifying assumption of homogeneous bodies. By including higher-order eccentricity terms (up to and including e^20), we find divergences from the traditionally used e^2 truncation starting around ...
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