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Giant planets are expected to predominantly form beyond the water ice line and occasionally undergo inward migration. Unlike hot Jupiters, which can result from high-eccentricity tidal migration, warm Jupiters between 0.1-1 AU…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 Marvin Morgan , Brendan P. Bowler , Quang H. Tran , Robert A. Wittenmyer , Duncan J. Wright , George Zhou , Tyler R. Fairnington

Warm jupiters are an unexpected population of extrasolar planets that are too near to their host to have formed in situ, but distant enough to retain a significant eccentricity in the face of tidal damping. These planets are curiously…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-23 Shane Frewen , Brad Hansen

Warm giant planets with orbital periods of tens of days exhibit a positive correlation between mass and eccentricity. We interpret this trend as the outcome of planet-planet scattering, representing a transition from collision-dominated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Jiayin Dong , Eve J. Lee , Eiichiro Kokubo , Ruth Murray-Clay , Arvind Gupta

In this work, we investigate the dynamical survival of short-period inner planets during the high-eccentricity tidal migration of companion exterior giant planets. Using a combination of analytic arguments and N-body simulations including…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Juliette Becker

High-eccentricity migration is a likely formation mechanism for many observed hot Jupiters, particularly those with a large misalignment between the stellar spin axis and orbital angular momentum axis of the planet. In one version of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Michelle Vick , Yubo Su , Dong Lai

Hot Jupiters (HJs) are Jupiter-like planets orbiting their host star in tight orbits of a few days. They are commonly believed not to have formed in situ, requiring inwards migration towards the host star. One of the proposed migration…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-10 Adrian S. Hamers

The discovery of Jupiter-mass planets in close orbits about their parent stars has challenged models of planet formation. Recent observations have shown that a number of these planets have highly inclined, sometimes retrograde orbits about…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 James Guillochon , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Douglas N. C. Lin

Conventionally, the observed isolation of hot Jupiters, marked by a paucity of nearby low-mass planetary companions, has been interpreted as evidence of high-eccentricity tidal migration for these close-in gas giants. This loneliness is in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Brandon Radzom , Songhu Wang , Bonan Pu , Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar , Malena Rice

We use numerical simulations to model the migration of massive planets at small radii and compare the results with the known properties of 'hot Jupiters' (extrasolar planets with semi-major axes a < 0.1 AU). For planet masses Mp sin i > 0.5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. K. M. Rice , P. J. Armitage , D. F. Hogg

Hot Jupiters (HJs) are giant planets with orbital periods shorter than $10$ days, found around $\sim 0.5$-$1\%$ of Sun-like stars. Their origins remain debated despite decades of study. The high prevalence of stellar companions, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Evgeni Grishin , Jet Winter , Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes

High-eccentricity tidal migration predicts the existence of highly eccentric proto-hot Jupiters on the "tidal circularization track," meaning that they might eventually become hot Jupiters, but that their migratory journey remains…

I consider a Jovian planet on a highly eccentric orbit around its host star, a situation produced by secular interactions with its planetary or stellar companions. The tidal interactions at every periastron passage exchange energy between…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Yanqin Wu

Hot Jupiters are giant planets on orbits a few hundredths of an AU. They do not share their system with low-mass close-in planets, despite these latter being exceedingly common. Two migration channels for hot Jupiters have been proposed:…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Alexander J. Mustill , Melvyn B. Davies , Anders Johansen

Warm Jupiters-giant exoplanets with orbital periods between 10 and 200 days-exhibit a broad range of eccentricities and are often accompanied by nearby low-mass planets. Understanding the origins of their orbital architectures requires…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 Ying He , Dong-Hong Wu , Sheng Jin

High-eccentricity migration is an important channel for the formation of hot Jupiters (HJs). In particular, Lidov-Kozai (LK) oscillations of orbital eccentricity/inclination induced by a distant planetary or stellar companion, combined with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Michelle Vick , Dong Lai , Kassandra R. Anderson

This study considers the characteristics of planetary systems with giant planets based on a population-level analysis of the California Legacy Survey planet catalog. We identified three characteristics common to hot Jupiters. First, while…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 Jon Zink , Andrew Howard

The origin of hot Jupiters is the oldest problem in exoplanet astrophysics. Hot Jupiters formed in situ or via disk migration should be in place just a few Myr after the formation of their host stars. On the other hand, hot Jupiters formed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Stephen P. Schmidt , Kevin C. Schlaufman

Hot Jupiters, giant extrasolar planets with orbital periods shorter than ~10 days, have long been thought to form at large radial distances, only to subsequently experience long-range inward migration. Here, we propose that in contrast with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Konstantin Batygin , Peter H. Bodenheimer , Gregory P. Laughlin

In a recent paper we proposed that the giant planets' primordial orbits may have been eccentric (~0.05), and used a suite of dynamical simulations to show outcomes of the giant planet instability that are consistent with their present-day…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Matthew S. Clement , Rogerio Deienno , Nathan A. Kaib , Andre Izidoro , Sean N. Raymond , John E. Chambers

Stars with hot Jupiters tend to be rotating faster than other stars of the same age and mass. This trend has been attributed to tidal interactions between the star and planet. A constraint on the dissipation parameter $Q_\star'$ follows…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Kaloyan Penev , L. G. Bouma , Joshua N. Winn , Joel D. Hartman