Bodily Tides

The equilibrium tide model in the weak friction approximation is used by the binary star and exoplanet communities to study the tidal evolution of short-period systems. However, each uses a slightly different approach which potentially leads to different conclusions about the timescales on which va...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mardling Rosemary.A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2011-02-01
Series:EPJ Web of Conferences
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20101103002