B.S. in Physics, Universidade de São Paulo (1959) and Docteur ès Sciences Mathématiques, Académie de Paris / Sorbonne (1966). Professor Emeritus, Universidade de São Paulo (2007). Editor-in-chief of the journal "Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy" (Springer/Nature) (2001-2017) Work in Astronomy, with emphasis on the Dynamics of the Solar System and Extrasolar Planetary Systems with results in the following subjects: Asteroids, Resonance, Tides, Chaos and Extrasolar planets. Awards: Grã-cruz da Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico (Brasil), Docteur Honoris Causa de l'Observatoire de Paris (2007) and Brouwer Award of the American Astronomical Society/Division of Dynamical Astronomy. The International Astronomical Union named as "Ferraz-Mello" the asteroid 1983 XF (5201). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Discoveries in the last decades have stimulated the use of interdisciplinary tools to study exoplanets and, naturally, astrobiology. These efforts are helping to understand complex phenomena as, for instance, planetary habitability. Science is trying to answer ancient questions as: Are there planets similar to ours outside the solar system? Is life a common phenomenon in the universe? How…
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The objective of this project is to study the evolution of planets which are close to their host stars (hot Jupiters and super-earths), the host stars of planetary systems and the major planetary satellites of the solar system. In all such cases, the evolution is dictated by the tides dynamics, which causes effects on the rotational movement of these bodies that depend on their compositio…
The Creep Tide theory, introduced by Ferraz-Mello (2013), is a new rheophysical approach for the tidal problem. This theory proposes to study the tides directly from the deformation laws of the bodies, taking into account the distinct properties of their internal structure by means of the Newtonian creep. The theory is still under construction and has great potential for application to m…
This project has the purpose to study the dynamic evolution due to tidal forces produced by the interaction of close-in differentiated bodies (star-planet or planet-satellite). Recently, a new tidal rheophysical theory was developed in the IAG-USP, which takes into account the nature (rheology) of objects (Ferraz-Mello, 2013; 2015a), and its extension to differentiated bodies (Folonier & …
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This project has the objective to study the tidal evolution of exoplanetary systems and their host stars, where tidal interactions are taken into account mainly in the frame of the creep tide theory. The variety of discovered exoplanetary systems up to this year shows that there are many possibilities for the planetary internal structure, compositions and orbital configurations of the exo…
This project has as purpose to extend the creep tide theory to the spatial problem, that is, when the axis of rotation of the body deformed by the action of the tide is not perpendicular to the orbital plane. The Newtonian Creep tide theory (or Creep tide theory) developed at the IAG-USP, is a new reophysic tide theory that takes into account the nature (viscosity) of objects (Ferraz-Mell…
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