STABILITY OF SATELLITES IN CLOSELY PACKED PLANETARY SYSTEMS

We perform numerical integrations of four-body (star, planet, planet, satellite) systems to investigate the stability of satellites in planetary systems with tightly packed inner planets (STIPs). We find that the majority of closely spaced stable two-planet systems can stably support satellites acro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Payne, Matthew J., Deck, Katherine M., Holman, Matthew J., Perets, Hagai B.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/93729