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Self-consistent obliquity and spin rate evolution for several realizations of exoplanet Kepler-79 d. Trajectories go from right to left. The planet is initalized with a spin rate of 7.5 hours (i.e. ω/np ≈ 170) and different obliquities equispaced in cos θ. A moon with mass mm/mp = 10−6 is initialized at a distance am = 4 Rp. Integrations are stopped when the moon’s pericenter goes below the Roche limit. The three largest resonances reachable by Kepler-79 d appear in red, blue, and green. The hatched blue zone is the E1 region. For definitiveness, the resonances and E1 region in the background are drawn assuming that the moon is on a circular orbit at am = 4 Rp; for moons that do not cross the E1 region, this remains approximatively true during the whole simulation.
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