Chaotic f-mode tides act only when a giant planet's pericentre is within about two white-dwarf Roche radii, can destroy ice giants via internal heating, and are followed by equilibrium-tide circularization described by an empirical power law.
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Tidal circularization of gaseous planets orbiting white dwarfs
Chaotic f-mode tides act only when a giant planet's pericentre is within about two white-dwarf Roche radii, can destroy ice giants via internal heating, and are followed by equilibrium-tide circularization described by an empirical power law.