Tidal evolution of packed moon systems around an Earth-mass planet

arXiv:2607.14323 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-07-15 · Read on arXiv

Alan Briseño, Billy Quarles, Marialis Rosario-Franco

astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-07-15

Comments: 22 pages, 10 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in ApJ; scripts and code to reproduce our results can be found in a github repo: https://github.com/AlanB2006/Moon-Packing

Code: https://github.com/AlanB2006/Moon-Packing

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• James Webb Space Telescope — 1× in this paper
• M High Performance Research Computing — 1× in this paper
• N-body simulations — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• The JWST Search for Earth-Luna Analogs: Upper Limits on Exomoons and Refined Ephemerides for TOI 700 d and e

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