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The orbits of giant extrasolar planets often have surprisingly small semi-major axes, large eccentricities, or severe misalignments between their normals and their host stars' spin axes. In some formation scenarios invoking Kozai-Lidov…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Rebekah Dawson , Eugene Chiang

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

Disk migration and high-eccentricity migration are two well-studied theories to explain the formation of hot Jupiters. The former predicts that these planets can migrate up until the planet-star Roche separation ($a_{Roche}$) and the latter…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Benjamin E. Nelson , Eric B. Ford , Frederic A. Rasio

The existence of giant extrasolar planets on short-period orbits ("hot Jupiters") challenges planet formation theories because such planets are difficult to form close to the star. High-eccentricity migration is a leading explanation, in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Grant C. Weldon , Bradley M. S. Hansen , Smadar Naoz

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

Many exoplanetary systems containing hot Jupiters are observed to have highly misaligned orbital axes relative to the stellar spin axes. Kozai-Lidov oscillations of orbital eccentricity/inclination induced by a binary companion, in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-23 Natalia I. Storch , Kassandra R. Anderson , Dong Lai

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

Most giant exoplanets discovered by radial velocity surveys have much higher eccentricities than those in the solar system. The planet--planet scattering mechanism has been shown to match the broad eccentricity distribution, but the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Daniel Carrera , Sean R. Raymond , Melvyn B. Davies

We propose a stringent observational test on the formation of warm Jupiters (gas-giant planets with 10 d <~ P <~ 100 d) by high-eccentricity (high-e) migration mechanisms. Unlike hot Jupiters, the majority of observed warm Jupiters have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-25 Subo Dong , Boaz Katz , Aristotle Socrates

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

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

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 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 discovery of high incidence of hot Jupiters in dense clusters challenges the field-based hot Jupiter formation theory. In dense clusters, interactions between planetary systems and flyby stars are relatively common. This has a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Yi-Han Wang , Nathan W. C. Leigh , Rosalba Perna , Michael M. Shara

Recent observations show distinct orbital architectures for hot and warm Jupiters: hot Jupiters span a wide range of stellar obliquities and tend to host distant companions without close-by companions, whereas warm Jupiters are often…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Julia Esposito , Gongjie Li , Songhu Wang

Observations of exoplanets over the last two decades have revealed a new class of Jupiter-size planets with orbital periods of a few days, the so-called "hot Jupiters". Recent measurements using the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect have shown…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jean Teyssandier , Smadar Naoz , Ian M. Lizarraga , Frederic A. Rasio

Hot Jupiters (HJs) are usually defined as giant Jovian-size planets with orbital periods $P \le 10$ days. Although they lie close to the star, several have finite eccentricities and significant misalignment angle with respect to the stellar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-16 J. G. Martí , C. Beaugé

Radial velocity surveys find Jupiter mass planets with semi-major axes a less than 0.1 AU around ~1% of solar-type stars; counting planets with $a$ as large as 5 AU, the fraction of stars having planets reaches ~ 10% {Marcy,Butler}. An…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yanqin Wu , Norman W. Murray , J. Michael Ramsahai

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

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