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A Secular Resonant Origin for the Loneliness of Hot Jupiters

  • Authors: Christopher Spalding, and Konstantin Batygin

2017 The Astronomical Journal 154 93.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Outer companions within the shaded region will not encounter the resonance and will remain coplanar with the inner giant. We have plotted the configuration of the four systems known where a giant lies interior to a lower-mass planet. All four lie within the region where coplanarity is expected to persist around a well-aligned star. Interestingly, the innermost example, WASP-47, lies almost exactly on the boundary, consistent with it being the closest-in known example and only hot Jupiter with a close outer companion.

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