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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 774, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/774/1/52
Keywords
celestial mechanics; planetary systems; planets and satellites: general
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- Hong Kong RGC grant [HKU 7034/09P]
- NASA [HF-51272.01-A, NNX08AM84G]
- STScI
- NSF [AST-0908807]
- University of California Lab Fee grant
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [0908807] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The multiple-planet systems discovered by the Kepler mission show an excess of planet pairs with period ratios just wide of exact commensurability for first-order resonances like 2:1 and 3:2. In principle, these planet pairs could have both resonance angles associated with the resonance librating if the orbital eccentricities are sufficiently small, because the width of first-order resonances diverges in the limit of vanishingly small eccentricity. We consider a widely held scenario in which pairs of planets were captured into first-order resonances by migration due to planet-disk interactions, and subsequently became detached from the resonances, due to tidal dissipation in the planets. In the context of this scenario, we find a constraint on the ratio of the planet's tidal dissipation function and Love number that implies that some of the Kepler planets are likely solid. However, tides are not strong enough to move many of the planet pairs to the observed separations, suggesting that additional dissipative processes are at play.
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