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Explaining the origin and evolution of exoplanetary "hot Jupiters" remains a significant challenge. One possible mechanism for their production is planet-planet interactions, which produces hot Jupiters from planets born far from their host…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Michael M. Shara , Jarrod R. Hurley , Rosemary A. Mardling

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

We study the possibility that hot Jupiters are formed through the secular gravitational interactions between two planets in eccentric orbits with relatively low mutual inclinations ($\lesssim20^\circ$) and friction due to tides raised on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-17 Cristobal Petrovich

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

The discovery of hot Jupiters has challenged the classical planet formation theory. Although various formation mechanisms have been proposed, the dominant channel and relative contributions remain unclear. Furthermore, hot Jupiters offer a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-25 Di-Chang Chen , Ji-Wei Xie , Ji-Lin Zhou , Fei Dai , Bo Ma , Songhu Wang , Chao Liu

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

The origin of hot Jupiters -- gas giant exoplanets orbiting very close to their host stars -- is a long-standing puzzle. Planet formation theories suggest that such planets are unlikely to have formed in-situ but instead may have formed at…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Nikku Madhusudhan , Mustafa A. Amin , Grant M. Kennedy

The first discovered extrasolar worlds -- giant, ``hot Jupiter'' planets on short-period orbits -- came as a surprise to solar-system-centric models of planet formation, prompting the development of new theories for planetary system…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Dong-Hong Wu , Malena Rice , Songhu Wang

Hot Jupiters are giant Jupiter-like exoplanets that orbit 100x closer to their host stars than Jupiter does to the Sun. These planets presumably form in the outer part of the primordial disc from which both the central star and surrounding…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-21 JF Donati , C Moutou , L Malo , C Baruteau , L Yu , E Hebrard , G Hussain , S Alencar , F Menard , J Bouvier , P Petit , M Takami , R Doyon , A Collier Cameron

The obliquity of a star, or the angle between its spin axis and the average orbit normal of its companion planets, provides a unique constraint on that system's evolutionary history. Unlike the Solar System, where the Sun's equator is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Malena Rice , Songhu Wang , Gregory Laughlin

It is well accepted that 'hot Jupiters' did not form in situ, as the temperature in the protoplanetary disc at the radius at which they now orbit would have been too high for planet formation to have occurred. These planets, instead, form…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 W. K. M. Rice , J. Veljanoski , A. Collier Cameron

We provide a brief review of many aspects of the planetary physics of hot Jupiters. Our aim is to cover most of the major areas of current study while providing the reader with additional references for more detailed follow-up. We first…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Jonathan J. Fortney , Rebekah I. Dawson , Thaddeus D. Komacek

Exoplanets discovered over the last decades have provided a new sample of giant exoplanets, hot Jupiters. For lack of enough materials in current locations of hot Jupiters, they are perceived to form outside snowline. Then, migrate to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Ying Wang , Ji-lin Zhou , Liu hui-gen , Zeyang Meng

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

Exoplanets show a pile-up of Jupiter-size planets in orbits with a 3-day period. A fraction of these hot Jupiters have retrograde orbits with respect to the parent star's rotation. To explain these observations we performed a series of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 C. Beauge , D. Nesvorny

Hot Jupiters (HJs) are Jupiter-like planets that reside very closely to their host star, within $\sim 0.1\,\mathrm{AU}$. Their formation is not well understood. It is generally believed that they cannot have formed in situ, implying that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-16 Adrian S. Hamers , Fabio Antonini , Yoram Lithwick , Hagai B. Perets , Simon F. Portegies Zwart

The origin of Jupiter-mass planets with orbital periods of only a few days is still uncertain. It is widely believed that these planets formed near the water-ice line of the protoplanetary disk, and subsequently migrated into much smaller…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Kevin C. Schlaufman , Joshua N. Winn

About 25 per cent of `hot Jupiters' (extrasolar Jovian-mass planets with close-in orbits) are actually orbiting counter to the spin direction of the star. Perturbations from a distant binary star companion can produce high inclinations, but…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Smadar Naoz , Will M. Farr , Yoram Lithwick , Frederic A. Rasio , Jean Teyssandier

Hot Jupiters may have formed in situ, or been delivered to their observed short periods through one of two categories of migration mechanisms: disk migration or high-eccentricity migration. If hot Jupiters were delivered by…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Jonathan M. Jackson , Rebekah I. Dawson , Billy Quarles , Jiayin Dong

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
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