Mercury-T: Tidally evolving multi-planet systems code

Emeline Bolmont, Sean N. Raymond, Jeremy Leconte, Franck Hersant, Alexandre C. M. Correia

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Abstract

Mercury-T calculates the evolution of semi-major axis, eccentricity, inclination, rotation period and obliquity of the planets as well as the rotation period evolution of the host body; it is based on the N-body code Mercury (Chambers 1999, ascl:1201.008). It is flexible, allowing computation of the tidal evolution of systems orbiting any non-evolving object (if its mass, radius, dissipation factor and rotation period are known), but also evolving brown dwarfs (BDs) of mass between 0.01 and 0.08 M⊙, an evolving M-dwarf of 0.1 M⊙, an evolving Sun-like star, and an evolving Jupiter.
Original languageEnglish
JournalAstrophysics Source Code Library
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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