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Planetary Desert around Compact Binaries: Dynamical Instability Triggered by Resonance-induced Eccentricity Excitation

  • Authors: Bin Liu, Dong Lai

Bin Liu and Dong Lai 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Similar to Figure 1, but including mutual gravitational interaction between two CBPs. The initial longitude of pericenter of each planet is randomly chosen between 0 and 2π. The evolution of the system can lead to either collision or ejection. Left panel: two planets with initial semimajor axes ap = 2.13 au and 1.24 au collide into a single body. Right panel: one planet initially located at ap = 2.13 au is ejected from the system.

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