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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

Hot Jupiters (HJs) are short-period giant planets that are observed around ~ 1% of solar-type field stars. One possible formation scenario for HJs is high-eccentricity (high-e) migration, in which the planet forms at much larger radii, is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Adrian S. Hamers , Scott Tremaine

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

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

In this work, we investigate the dynamical survival of short-period inner planets during the high-eccentricity tidal migration of companion exterior giant planets. Using a combination of analytic arguments and N-body simulations including…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Juliette Becker

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

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

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

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

We study the possibility of tidal dissipation in the solid cores of giant planets and its implication for the formation of hot Jupiters through high-eccentricity migration. We present a general framework by which the tidal evolution of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-25 Natalia I Storch , Dong Lai

The origin of warm Jupiters (gas giant planets with periods between 10 and 200 days) is an open question in exoplanet formation and evolution. We investigate a particular migration theory in which a warm Jupiter is coupled to a perturbing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Jonathan M. Jackson , Rebekah I. Dawson , Andrew Shannon , Cristobal Petrovich

A significant fraction of the hot Jupiters with final circularized orbital periods of less than 5 days are thought to form through the channel of high-eccentricity migration. Tidal dissipation at successive periastron passages removes…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-26 Aristotle Socrates , Boaz Katz , Subo Dong

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hot Jupiters (HJs) are giant planets with orbital periods shorter than $10$ days, found around $\sim 0.5$-$1\%$ of Sun-like stars. Their origins remain debated despite decades of study. The high prevalence of stellar companions, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Evgeni Grishin , Jet Winter , Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes
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