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Ultra-short-period (USP) planets, defined as those with orbital periods shorter than 1 day, provide valuable insights into planetary evolution under strong stellar tidal interactions. In this work, we investigate the formation of USP…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Jia Jun Zhu , Su Wang , Jianghui Ji , Yao Dong

Ultra-short-period (USP) planets, with orbital periods shorter than one day, represent a unique class of exoplanets whose origin remains puzzling. Determining their age distribution and temporal evolution is vital for uncovering their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Pei-Wei Tu , Ji-Wei Xie , Di-Chang Chen , Ji-Lin Zhou

Recent studies suggest that ultra-short period planets (USPs), Earth-sized planets with sub-day periods, constitute a statistically distinct sub-sample of {\it Kepler} planets: USPs have smaller radii ($1-1.4R_\oplus$) and larger mutual…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Bonan Pu , Dong Lai

Ultra-short period planets provide a window into the inner edge of the parameter space occupied by planetary orbits. In one particularly intriguing class of multi-planet systems, the ultra-short period planet is flanked by short-period…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Juliette Becker , Konstantin Batygin , Daniel C. Fabrycky , Fred C. Adams , Gongjie Li , Andrew Vanderburg , Joseph E. Rodriguez

Ultra-short period (USP) planets are an enigmatic subset of exoplanets defined by having orbital periods $<$ 1 day. It is still not understood how USP planets form, or to what degree they differ from planets with longer orbital periods.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Ana Sofía M. Uzsoy , Leslie A. Rogers , Ellen M. Price

Over a hundred rocky planets orbiting Sun-like stars in very short orbital periods (<1 day) have been discovered by the Kepler mission. These planets, known as ultra-short-period (USP) planets, are unlikely to have attained their orbits in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Cristobal Petrovich , Emily Deibert , Yanqin Wu

Systems with ultra-short-period planets (USPs) tend to possess larger mutual inclinations compared to those with planets located farther from their host stars. This could be explained due to precession caused by stellar oblateness at early…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Chen Chen , Gongjie Li , Cristobal Petrovich

Terrestrial worlds with $P < 1$ day, known as ultra-short period planets (USPs), comprise a physically distinct population whose origins may be attributed to various possible formation channels within multi-planet systems. However, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Armaan V. Goyal , Songhu Wang

It has been unambiguously shown in both individual systems and at the population level that hot Jupiters experience tidal inspiral before the end of their host stars' main sequence lifetimes. Ultra-short-period (USP) planets have orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Jacob H. Hamer , Kevin C. Schlaufman

Unveiling the fate of ultra-short period (USP) planets may help us understand the qualitative agreement between tidal theory and the observed exoplanet distribution. Nevertheless, due to the time-varying interchange of spin-orbit angular…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes , Mario Sucerquia , Carolina García-Carmona , Jorge I. Zuluaga , Lee Spitler , Christian Schwab

Close-in rocky planets are the most common type of exoplanets around late M dwarfs, ranging from more temperate worlds to highly irradiated lava planets with molten surfaces, and many theoretical studies have attempted to explain their…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 S. N. Brandenberger , M. Sanchez , N. Van der Marel , A. A. Vidotto , Y. Miguel

Ultra-short-period (USP) planets reside inside the expected truncation radius for typical T Tauri disks. As a result, their current orbital locations require an explanation beyond standard disk migration or in situ formation. Modern…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Juliette Becker , Konstantin Batygin , Fred Adams

Short and ultra-short planets are a peculiar type of exoplanets with periods as short as a few days or less. Although it is challenging to detect them, already several are observed with many additional candidates. If these planets have…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-08 Thea H. Faridani , Smadar Naoz , Gongjie Li , Nicholas Inzunza

Ultra-short-period (USP) planets are a newly recognized class of planets with periods shorter than one day and radii smaller than about 2 Earth radii. It has been proposed that USP planets are the solid cores of hot Jupiters that lost their…

Small, rocky planets have been found orbiting in extreme proximity to their host stars, sometimes down to only $\sim 2$ stellar radii. These ultra-short-period planets (USPs) likely did not form in their present-day orbits, but rather…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Sarah Millholland , Christopher Spalding

We present the results of a survey aimed at discovering and studying transiting planets with orbital periods shorter than one day (ultra--short-period, or USP, planets), using data from the {\em Kepler} spacecraft. We computed Fourier…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda , Saul Rappaport , Joshua N. Winn , Michael C. Kotson , Alan M. Levine , Ileyk El Mellah

Ultra-short-period planets (USPs) provide important clues to planetary formation and migration. Recently, it is found that the mutual inclinations of the planetary systems are larger if the inner orbits are closer ($\lesssim 5R_*$) and if…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Gongjie Li , Fei Dai , Juliette Becker

Exoplanet systems are thought to evolve on secular timescales over billions of years. This evolution is impossible to directly observe on human timescales in most individual systems. While the availability of accurate and precise age…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 Stephen P. Schmidt , Kevin C. Schlaufman , Jacob H. Hamer
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