A hot-Jupiter progenitor on a super-eccentric retrograde orbit

• Published in: Nature (London) Vol. 632; no. 8023; pp. 50 - 54
• Main Authors: Gupta, Arvind F, Millholland, Sarah C, Im, Haedam, Dong, Jiayin, Jackson, Jonathan M, Carleo, Ilaria, Libby-Roberts, Jessica, Delamer, Megan, Giovinazzi, Mark R, Lin, Andrea S J, Kanodia, Shubham, Wang, Xian-Yu, Stassun, Keivan, Masseron, Thomas, Dragomir, Diana, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Wright, Jason, Alvarado-Montes, Jaime A, Bender, Chad, Blake, Cullen H, Caldwell, Douglas, Cañas, Caleb I, Cochran, William D, Dalba, Paul, Everett, Mark E, Fernandez, Pipa, Golub, Eli, Guillet, Bruno, Halverson, Samuel, Hebb, Leslie, Higuera, Jesus, Huang, Chelsea X, Klusmeyer, Jessica, Knight, Rachel, Leroux, Liouba, Logsdon, Sarah E, Loose, Margaret, McElwain, Michael W, Monson, Andrew, Ninan, Joe P, Nowak, Grzegorz, Palle, Enric, Patel, Yatrik, Pepper, Joshua, Primm, Michael, Rajagopal, Jayadev, Robertson, Paul, Roy, Arpita, Schneider, Donald P, Schwab, Christian, Schweiker, Heidi, Sgro, Lauren, Shimizu, Masao, Simard, Georges, Stefánsson, Guðmundur, Stevens, Daniel J, Villanueva, Steven, Wisniewski, John, Will, Stefan, Ziegler, Carl
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Nature Publishing Group 01.08.2024; Nature Publishing Group UK
• Subjects: Angular momentum; Extrasolar planets; Gas giant planets; Ice formation; Jupiter; Orbits; Oscillations; Photometric observations; Planetary orbits; Retrograde orbits; Simulation; Trajectory analysis

Giant exoplanets orbiting close to their host stars are unlikely to have formed in their present configurations . These 'hot Jupiter' planets are instead thought to have migrated inward from beyond the ice line and several viable migration channels have been proposed, including eccentricit...