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We report on an extensive series of numerical experiments of binary--binary scattering, analysing the cross--section for close approach during interactions for a range of hard binary parameters of interest in globular cluster cores. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 D. Bacon , S. Sigurdsson , M. B. Davies

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

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

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

Short period, massive planets, known as hot Jupiters (HJs), have been discovered around $\sim 1$ percent of local field stars. The inward migration necessary to produce HJs may be `low eccentricity', due to torques in the primordial disc,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Andrew J. Winter , Cathie J. Clarke , Giovanni Rosotti , Mirek Giersz

Star-forming regions, characterized by dense environments, experience frequent encounters that significantly influence binary systems, leading to their hardening, softening, or ionization. We extend the Hut \& Bahcall formalism to derive an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Yihan Wang , Rosalba Perna , Zhaohuan Zhu , Douglas N. C. Lin

It has recently been shown that stellar clustering plays an important role in shaping the properties of planetary systems. We investigate how the multiplicity distributions and orbital periods of planetary systems depend on the 6D phase…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Steven N. Longmore , Mélanie Chevance , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

The chance that a planetary system will interact with another member of its host star's nascent cluster would be greatly increased if gas giant planets form in situ on wide orbits. In this paper, we explore the outcomes of planet-planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Aaron C. Boley , Matthew J. Payne , Eric B. Ford

Young stars are mostly found in dense stellar environments, and even our own Solar system may have formed in a star cluster. Here, we numerically explore the evolution of planetary systems similar to our own Solar system in star clusters.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-27 Francesco Flammini Dotti , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Maxwell Xu Cai , Rainer Spurzem

Warm Jupiters with orbital periods of $\approx$10-365 d represent a population of giant planets located well within the water ice line but beyond the region of tidal influence of their host star relevant for high-eccentricity tidal…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 Marvin Morgan , Brendan P. Bowler , Quang H. Tran

Tidal transfer of angular momentum is expected to cause hot Jupiters to spiral into their host stars. Although the timescale for orbital decay is very uncertain, it should be faster for systems with larger and more evolved stars. Indeed, it…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kevin C. Schlaufman , Joshua N. Winn

Jovian planet formation has been shown to be strongly correlated with host star metallicity, which is thought to be a proxy for disk solids. Observationally, previous works have indicated that jovian planets preferentially form around stars…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Kiersten M. Boley , Ji Wang , Joel C. Zinn , Karen A. Collins , Kevin I. Collins , Tianjun Gan , Ting S. Li

Most warm Jupiters (gas-giant planets with $0.1~{\rm AU}\lesssim a \lesssim1$ AU) have pericenter distances that are too large for significant orbital migration by tidal friction. We study the possibility that the warm Jupiters are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-03 Cristobal Petrovich , Scott Tremaine

Stellar binaries in galactic centers are relevant to several observable phenomena, including hypervelocity stars, X-ray binaries, and mergers of stars and compact objects; however, we know little about the properties of these binaries. Past…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-06 Mark Dodici , Scott Tremaine , Yanqin Wu

Of the > 500 confirmed transiting hot jupiters and approximately 2000 additional candidates today, only ten are known to have nearby companion planets. The survival of nearby companions means that these hot jupiters cannot have migrated to…

The population of giant planets on short-period orbits can potentially be explained by some flavours of high-eccentricity migration. In this paper we investigate one such mechanism involving "secular chaos", in which secular interactions…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Jean Teyssandier , Dong Lai , Michelle Vick

We explore how the correlation between host star metallicity and giant planets shapes hot Jupiter occurrence as a function of Galactic birth radius (\rbirth) and phase-space density in the Milky Way disk. Using the GALAH and APOGEE surveys…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-23 Rayna Rampalli , Melissa K. Ness , Elisabeth R. Newton , Andrew Vanderburg , Tobias Buck , Jessica Mills

Recent studies have proposed that most warm Jupiters (WJs, giant planets with semi-major axes in the range of 0.1-1 AU) probably form in-situ, or arrive in their observed orbits through disk migration. However, both in-situ formation and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-09 Kassandra R. Anderson , Dong Lai

Exoplanet searches have discovered a large number of 'hot Jupiters'--high-mass planets orbiting very close to their parent stars in nearly circular orbits. A number of these planets are sufficiently massive and close-in to be significantly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-14 Michael Zhang , Kaloyan Penev

We investigate formation of close-in terrestrial planets from planetary embryos under the influence of a hot Jupiter (HJ) using gravitational N-body simulations that include gravitational interactions between the gas disk and the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Masahiro Ogihara , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Hiroshi Kobayashi