Hot Jupiters were the first exoplanets to be discovered around main sequence stars and
astonished us with their close-in orbits. They are a prime example of how exoplanets have …

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 …

Nuclear star clusters surrounding supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in galactic nuclei
contain large numbers of stars, black holes (BHs), and neutron stars (NSs), a fraction of …

Context. Many stars do not live alone, but instead have one or more stellar companions.
Observations show that these binaries, triples, and higher-order multiples are common …

The so-called Lidov-Kozai oscillation is very well known and applied to various problems in
solar system dynamics. This mechanism makes the orbital inclination and eccentricity of the …

Abstract The Milky Way and a significant fraction of galaxies are observed to host a central
massive black hole (MBH) embedded in a non-spherical nuclear star cluster. We study the …

Context. Hierarchical triple stars are ideal laboratories for studying the interplay between
orbital dynamics and stellar evolution. Both mass loss from stellar winds and strong …

ABSTRACT I present a set of long-term, direct, relativistic many-body computations of model
dense stellar clusters with up-to-date stellar-evolutionary, supernova (SN), and remnant …

The study of stellar-remnant black holes (BH) in dense stellar clusters is now in the spotlight,
especially due to their intrinsic ability to form binary black holes (BBH) through dynamical …

We study the production of hot Jupiters (HJs) in stellar binaries. We show that the" eccentric
Kozai–Lidov"(EKL) mechanism can play a key role in the dynamical evolution of a star …