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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

A handful of planetary systems hosting a Hot Jupiter have been subsequently found to also host long-period giant planets. These ``cold Jupiters,'' giant planets residing beyond the snow line ($\sim$3\,au), play an important role in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Adriana Errico , Robert A. Wittenmyer , Jonathan Horner , Brad Carter , Valeria López

Studying the relative orientations of the orbits of exoplanets and wide-orbiting binary companions (semimajor axis greater than 100 AU) can shed light on how planets form and evolve in binary systems. Previous observations by multiple…

Hot Jupiters (HJs) are giant planets with orbital periods of the order of a few days with semimajor axis within $\sim$0.1 au. Several theories have been invoked in order to explain the origin of this type of planets, one of them being the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 H. Garzón , Adrián Rodríguez , G. C. de Elía

An important class of formation theories for hot Jupiters involves the excitation of extreme orbital eccentricity (e=0.99 or even larger) followed by tidal dissipation at periastron passage that eventually circularizes the planetary orbit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Aristotle Socrates , Boaz Katz , Subo Dong , Scott Tremaine

The past two decades have seen a significant advancement in the detection, classification and understanding of exoplanets and binaries. This is due, in large part, to the increase in use of small-aperture telescopes (< 20 cm) to survey…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Ryan J. Oelkers , Lucas M. Macri , Jennifer L. Marshall , Darren L. DePoy , Diego G. Lambas , Carlos Colazo , Katelyn Stringer

Observed hot Jupiter (HJ) systems exhibit a wide range of stellar spin-orbit misalignment angles. The origin of these HJs remains unclear. This paper investigates the inward migration of giant planets due to Lidov-Kozai (LK) oscillations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Kassandra R. Anderson , Natalia I. Storch , Dong Lai

Gas giant planets orbiting within 0.1 AU of their host stars, unlikely to have formed in situ, are evidence for planetary migration. It is debated whether the typical hot Jupiter smoothly migrated inward from its formation location through…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-13 Rebekah I. Dawson , Ruth A. Murray-Clay , John Asher Johnson

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

Hot Jupiters (HJs), gas giant planets orbiting their host stars with periods on the order of days, commonly occur in the Galaxy, including relatively massive ($1.6-2.4$ $M_\odot$, i.e., A-type main sequence stars) and evolved stars. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-31 Alexander P. Stephan , Smadar Naoz , B. Scott Gaudi

Hot Jupiters, giant extrasolar planets with orbital periods shorter than ~10 days, have long been thought to form at large radial distances, only to subsequently experience long-range inward migration. Here, we propose that in contrast with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Konstantin Batygin , Peter H. Bodenheimer , Gregory P. Laughlin

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

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

The discovery of a population of close-orbiting giant planets ($\le$ 1 au) has raised a number of questions about their origins and dynamical histories. These issues have still not yet been fully resolved, despite over 20 years of exoplanet…

Searches for stellar companions to hot Jupiters (HJs) have revealed that planetary systems hosting a HJ are approximately three times more likely to have a stellar companion with a semimajor axis between 50 and 2000 AU, compared to field…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Adrian S. Hamers

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

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 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

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

While cooler giant planets are often observed with non-zero eccentricities, the short-period circular orbits of hot Jupiters suggest that they lose orbital energy and angular momentum due to tidal interactions with their host stars.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Jacob H. Hamer , Kevin C. Schlaufman