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Short-range Forces Can Catalyze Extreme Orbital Evolution in Hierarchical Triples

  • Authors: Ygal Y. Klein, Chris Hamilton

Ygal Y. Klein and Chris Hamilton 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 .

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Caption: Figure 11.

Maximum single-cycle jump in the Kozai constant, ﹩{\rm{\max }}| {\rm{\Delta }}{C}_{{\rm{K}}}| ﹩ (35), versus ﹩({P}_{{\rm{out}}}/{P}_{{\rm{\sec }}})/{j}_{{\rm{\min }}}^{{\rm{DA}}}﹩, for the three worked examples: (a) GR precession (Section 3.1), (b) tidal bulge (Section 3.2), (c) rotational bulge (Section 3.3). In each panel, the dimensionless set (A1) is held fixed at the values quoted in the box, and only ﹩{P}_{{\rm{out}}}/{P}_{{\rm{\sec }}}﹩ is varied; each point represents the maximum jump for an ensemble of 50 simulations in which we vary the initial outer mean anomaly M2. Stars mark the realizations we studied in detail above (Figures 2, 5, and 8); the dashed line is the maximum possible ∣ΔCK∣ = 5/2.

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