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Inertial forces (indirect terms) in problems with a central body


By Aurélien Crida, Clément Baruteau & 15 more. A discussion of the indirect terms that arise in multi-body systems dominated by a central massive body upon which other bodies exert a gravitational pull

Gabriele Pichierri Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology Dipartimento di Fisica, University of Milan Copyright Logoccby-4.0Crida, Aurélien, Clément Baruteau, Philippine Griveaud, Elena Lega, Frédéric Masset, William Béthune, David Fang, et al. 2025. These ideas are developed here for star-disc-planets interactions, for which we propose a recipe for the force to be applied onto a migrating planet, but they can easily be generalized to other astrophysical systems.

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