Dynamics of tidally captured planets in the Galactic Center
  Recent observations suggest ongoing planet formation in the innermost parsec
of our Galaxy. The super-massive black hole (SMBH) might strip planets or
planetary embryos from their parent star, bringing them close enough to be
tidally disrupted. We investigate the chance of planet tidal captures by
running three-body encounters of SMBH-star-planet systems with a high-accuracy
regularized code. We show that tidally captured planets have orbits close to
those of their parent star. We conclude that the final periapsis distance of
the captured planet from the SMBH will be much larger than 200 AU, unless its
parent star was already on a highly eccentric orbit.
