Refining the transit-timing and photometric analysis of TRAPPIST-1: masses, radii, densities, dynamics, and ephemerides

E Agol, C Dorn, SL Grimm, M Turbet… - The planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We have collected transit times for the TRAPPIST-1 system with the Spitzer Space
Telescope over four years. We add to these ground-based, HST, and K2 transit-time …

Secular dynamics of hierarchical multiple systems composed of nested binaries, with an arbitrary number of bodies and arbitrary hierarchical structure. First …

AS Hamers, SF Portegies Zwart - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We present a method for studying the secular gravitational dynamics of hierarchical multiple
systems consisting of nested binaries, which is valid for an arbitrary number of bodies and …

How Sedna and family were captured in a close encounter with a solar sibling

L Jílková, S Portegies Zwart, T Pijloo… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The discovery of 2012 VP113 initiated the debate on the origin of the Sedna family of
planetesimals in orbit around the Sun. Sednitos roam the outer regions of the Solar system …

Secular dynamics of hierarchical quadruple systems: the case of a triple system orbited by a fourth body

AS Hamers, HB Perets, F Antonini… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We study the secular gravitational dynamics of quadruple systems consisting of a
hierarchical triple system orbited by a fourth body. These systems can be decomposed into …

A triple origin for the lack of tight coplanar circumbinary planets around short-period binaries

AS Hamers, HB Perets… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Transiting circumbinary planets are more easily detected around short-period than long-
period binaries, but none have yet been observed by Kepler orbiting binaries with periods …

Secular dynamics of hierarchical multiple systems composed of nested binaries, with an arbitrary number of bodies and arbitrary hierarchical structure–II. External …

AS Hamers - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We extend the formalism of a previous paper to include the effects of flybys and
instantaneous perturbations such as supernovae on the long-term secular evolution of …

Mass transfer between debris discs during close stellar encounters

L Jílková, AS Hamers, M Hammer… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We study mass transfers between debris discs during stellar encounters. We carried out
numerical simulations of close flybys of two stars, one of which has a disc of planetesimals …

A differentiable N-body code for transit timing and dynamical modelling–I. Algorithm and derivatives

E Agol, DM Hernandez… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
When fitting N-body models to astronomical data–such as transit times, radial velocity, and
astrometric positions at observed times–the derivatives of the model outputs with respect to …

Symplectic fourth-order maps for the collisional N-body problem

W Dehnen, DM Hernandez - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We study analytically and experimentally certain symplectic and time-reversible N-body
integrators which employ a Kepler solver for each pair-wise interaction, including the …

Symplectic integration for the collisional gravitational N-body problem

DM Hernandez, E Bertschinger - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present a new symplectic integrator designed for collisional gravitational N-body
problems which makes use of Kepler solvers. The integrator is also reversible and …