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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 3.

A scatter plot of the maximum eccentricity ﹩1-{e}_{{\rm{\max }}}﹩ and secular period PK measured at the end of each secular cycle. Each point represents a single secular cycle, colored by the dimensionless time ﹩\tau =t/{P}_{{\rm{\sec }}}﹩ at which it occurs (color bar). The system under study is the same as in Figure 2. The red “error bars” in each panel mark the semianalytic prediction ﹩{e}_{{\rm{\max }}}^{{\rm{DA}}}\pm \delta e﹩ that is supposed to bracket the SA fluctuations in eccentricity; here, δe is obtained by inserting the jz-oscillation amplitude of L. Luo et al. (2016, their Equations (32)–(33)) for an eccentric outer orbit into the fluctuating-eccentricity prescription of E. Grishin et al. (2018b, their Equation (36)).

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