Constraining planetary migration and tidal dissipation with coeval hot Jupiters
Abstract
We investigate the constraints on the formation of, and tidal dissipation processes in, hot Jupiters (HJs) that can be inferred based on reliable knowledge of the age of a system or population. Particular attention is paid to the role of young systems (such as those in open clusters or star-forming regions) in such studies. For an ensemble of coeval HJ (or proto-HJ) systems, we quantify the effect of age on the distribution of orbital eccentricities with respect to orbital periods as well as the location of the observed `pile-up' feature. We expect the effects of pre-main-sequence stellar evolution to be important only if a substantial fraction of HJs approach their current orbits early in protostellar contraction (ages ≲ 10 Myr). Application to the HJs presently known in the cluster M 67 yields constraints on the dissipation roughly consistent with those gleaned from planets in the field; for those in the Hyades and Praesepe, our results suggest a higher degree of dissipation at early times than that inferred from other populations.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- June 2018
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/sty645
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1711.10608
- Bibcode:
- 2018MNRAS.477..175O
- Keywords:
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- planets and satellites: dynamical evolution and stability;
- planet-star interactions;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 14 pages, 9 figures. Submitted to MNRAS on 2017 November 27