Circumbinary accretion: From binary stars to massive binary black holes

D Lai, DJ Muñoz - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review recent works on the dynamics of circumbinary accretion, including time variability,
angular momentum transfer between the disk and the binary, and the secular evolution of …

The origin and evolution of multiple star systems

SSR Offner, M Moe, KM Kratter, SI Sadavoy… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Observational advances over the last decade have enabled high-resolution, interferometric
studies of forming multiple systems, statistical surveys of multiplicity in star-forming regions …

The eccentric Kozai-Lidov effect and its applications

S Naoz - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
The hierarchical triple-body approximation has useful applications to a variety of systems
from planetary and stellar scales to supermassive black holes. In this approximation, the …

The occurrence and architecture of exoplanetary systems

JN Winn, DC Fabrycky - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The basic geometry of the Solar System—the shapes, spacings, and orientations of the
planetary orbits—has long been a subject of fascination as well as inspiration for planet …

Mergers and obliquities in stellar triples

S Naoz, DC Fabrycky - The Astrophysical Journal, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Many close stellar binaries are accompanied by a faraway star. The" eccentric Kozai-
Lidov"(EKL) mechanism can cause dramatic inclination and eccentricity fluctuations …

TIC 172900988: a transiting circumbinary planet detected in one sector of TESS data

VB Kostov, BP Powell, JA Orosz… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the first discovery of a transiting circumbinary planet detected from a single sector
of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) data. During Sector 21, the planet TIC …

The degree of alignment between circumbinary disks and their binary hosts

I Czekala, E Chiang, SM Andrews… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
All four circumbinary (CB) protoplanetary disks orbiting short-period (P< 20 days) double-
lined spectroscopic binaries (SB2s)—a group that includes UZ Tau E, for which we present …

Kepler-1647b: the largest and longest-period Kepler transiting circumbinary planet

VB Kostov, JA Orosz, WF Welsh, LR Doyle… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of a new Kepler transiting circumbinary planet (CBP). This latest
addition to the still-small family of CBPs defies the current trend of known short-period …

Thirty meter telescope detailed science case: 2015

W Skidmore - Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The TMT Detailed Science Case describes the transformational science that the
Thirty Meter Telescope will enable. Planned to begin science operations in 2024, TMT will …

A more comprehensive habitable zone for finding life on other planets

RM Ramirez - Geosciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
The habitable zone (HZ) is the circular region around a star (s) where standing bodies of
water could exist on the surface of a rocky planet. Space missions employ the HZ to select …