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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

High-eccentricity tidal migration predicts the existence of highly eccentric proto-hot Jupiters on the "tidal circularization track," meaning that they might eventually become hot Jupiters, but that their migratory journey remains…

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-giant exoplanets with orbital periods between 10 and 200 days-exhibit a broad range of eccentricities and are often accompanied by nearby low-mass planets. Understanding the origins of their orbital architectures requires…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 Ying He , Dong-Hong Wu , Sheng Jin

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 existence of hot Jupiters has challenged theories of planetary formation since the first extrasolar planets were detected. Giant planets are generally believed to form far from their host stars, where volatile materials like water exist…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Juliette C. Becker , Andrew Vanderburg , Fred C. Adams , Tali Khain , Marta Bryan

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

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

All the giant planets in the solar system host a large number of natural satellites. Moons in extrasolar systems are difficult to detect, but a Neptune-sized exomoon candidate has been recently found around a Jupiter-sized planet in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-27 Alessandro A. Trani , Adrian S. Hamers , Aaron Geller , Mario Spera

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

A significant fraction of hot Jupiters have orbital axes misaligned with their host stars' spin axes. The large stellar obliquities of these giants have long been considered potential signatures of high-eccentricity migration, which is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-06 Brandon Thomas Radzom , Jiayin Dong , Malena Rice , Xian-Yu Wang , Kyle Hixenbaugh , George Zhou , Chelsea X. Huang , Songhu Wang

More than two decades after the widespread detection of Jovian-class planets on short-period orbits around other stars, their dynamical origins remain imperfectly understood. In the traditional narrative, these highly irradiated giant…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Elizabeth Bailey , Konstantin Batygin

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

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

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

The presence of ``Hot Jupiters'', Jovian mass planets with very short orbital periods orbiting nearby main sequence stars, has been proposed to be primarily due to the orbital migration of planets formed in orbits initially much further…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Avi M. Mandell , Steinn Sigurdsson

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 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

The evolution of exoplanetary systems with a close-in planet is ruled by the tides mutually raised on the two bodies and by the magnetic braking of the host star. This paper deals with consequences of this evolution and some features that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 S. Ferraz-Mello , C. Beaugé

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