Journal
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 155, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aaac82
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celestial mechanics; methods: analytical; methods: numerical; planetary systems; planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability
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- NSERC Discovery grant
- University of British Columbia
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation
- BC Knowledge Development Fund
- WestGrid
- Compute Canada Calcul Canada
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We explore the effects of an undetected outer giant planet on the dynamics, observability, and stability of Systems with Tightly-packed Inner Planets (STIPs). We use direct numerical simulations along with secular theory and synthetic secular frequency spectra to analyze how analogues of Kepler-11 and Kepler-90 behave in the presence of a nearly co-planar, Jupiter-like outer perturber with semimajor axes between 1 and 5.2 au. Most locations of the outer perturber do not affect the evolution of the inner planetary systems, apart from altering precession frequencies. However, there are locations at which an outer planet causes system instability due to, in part, secular eccentricity resonances. In Kepler-90, there is a range of orbital distances for which the outer perturber drives planets b and c, through secular interactions, onto orbits with inclinations that are similar to 16 degrees away from the rest of the planets. Kepler-90 is stable in this configuration. Such secular resonances can thus affect the observed multiplicity of transiting systems. We also compare the synthetic apsidal and nodal precession frequencies with the secular theory and find some misalignment between principal frequencies, indicative of strong interactions between the planets (consistent with the system showing TTVs). First-order libration angles are calculated to identify MMRs in the systems, for which two near-MMRs are shown in Kepler-90, with a 5:4 between b and c, as well as a 3:2 between g and h.
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