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Despite decades of inquiry, the origin of giant planets residing within a few tenths of an astronomical unit from their host stars remains unclear. Traditionally, these objects are thought to have formed further out before subsequently…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Christopher Spalding , Konstantin Batygin

We use a population synthesis model that includes pebbles and gas accretion, planetary migration, and a simplified chemistry scheme to study the formation of hot-Jupiters. Models have been proposed that these planets can either originate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Mohamad Ali-Dib

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

In spite of their long detection history, the origin of hot Jupiters remains to be resolved. While multiple dynamical evidence suggests high-eccentricity migration is most likely, conflicts remain when considering hot Jupiters as a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Lina D'Aoust , Ben Coull-Neveu , Eve J. Lee , Nicolas B. Cowan

The current paradigm to explain the presence of Jupiters with small orbital periods (P $<$ 10 days; hot Jupiters) that involves their formation beyond the snow line following inward migration, has been challenged by recent works that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-09 J. Maldonado , E. Villaver , C. Eiroa

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

Gas giants orbiting their host star within the ice line are thought to have migrated to their current locations from farther out. Here we consider the origin and dynamical evolution of observed Jupiters, focusing on hot and warm Jupiters…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Fabio Antonini , Adrian S. Hamers , Yoram Lithwick

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

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

The observed population of Hot Jupiters displays a stunning variety of physical properties, including a wide range of densities and core sizes for a given planetary mass. Motivated by the observational sample, this paper studies the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jacob A. Ketchum , Fred C. Adams , Anthony M. Bloch

Through tidal dissipation in a slowly spinning host star the orbits of many hot Jupiters may decay down to the Roche limit. We expect that in most cases the ensuing mass transfer will be stable. Using detailed numerical calculations we find…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Francesca Valsecchi , Frederic A. Rasio , Jason H. Steffen

A significant fraction of the hot Jupiters with final circularized orbital periods of less than 5 days are thought to form through the channel of high-eccentricity migration. Tidal dissipation at successive periastron passages removes…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-26 Aristotle Socrates , Boaz Katz , Subo Dong

Transiting hot Jupiters occupy a wedge-shaped region in the mass ratio-orbital separation diagram. Its upper boundary is eroded by tidal spiral-in of massive, close-in planets and is sensitive to the stellar tidal dissipation parameter…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Andrew Collier Cameron , Moira Jardine

The population of hot Jupiters with adjacent planetary companions is small but growing, and inner companions appear to be a nearly ubiquitous outcome within this subset of the exoplanet census. While most hot Jupiters are believed to form…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Devansh Mathur , Juliette Becker

A widely explored pathway for hot Jupiter (HJ) formation is high-eccentricity migration driven by von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai cycles induced by an exterior companion. However, for a distant or low-mass companion, this mechanism typically demands…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Eritas Yang , Yubo Su

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 distribution of eccentricities of warm giant exoplanets is commonly explained through planet--planet interactions, although no physically sound argument favours the ubiquity of such interactions. No simple, generic explanation has been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 F. Debras , C. Baruteau , J. -F. Donati

The von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai (ZLK) mechanism with tidal friction has been demonstrated as a promising avenue to generate hot Jupiters in stellar binary systems. Previous population studies of hot Jupiter formation have largely examined this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-23 Yurou Liu , Tiger Lu , Malena Rice

The unexpected discovery of hot Jupiters challenged the classical theory of planet formation inspired by our solar system. Until now, the origin and evolution of hot Jupiters are still uncertain. Determining their age distribution and…

Recent {\em Kepler} observations revealed an unexpected abundance of "hot" Earth-size to Neptune-size planets in the inner $0.02-0.2$ AU from their parent stars. We propose that these smaller planets are the remnants of massive giant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Sergei Nayakshin