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Planet–Planet Secular Migration Predicts a Stellar Obliquity–Period Anticorrelation

  • Authors: Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar, Cristobal Petrovich, Diego J. Muñoz

Hareesh Gautham Bhaskar et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Final semimajor axes and obliquities of HJs formed in our fiducial simulations. Panel (a): the final semimajor axes of HJs are shown on the x-axis, and the final obliquities are shown on the y-axis. The color indicates the migration timescale. Close-in HJs exhibit a broad range of obliquities, whereas wider-orbit HJs tend to have low obliquities. The distribution shows an envelope that constrains the maximum obliquity of HJs at a given final semimajor axis. Panel (b): kernel density estimates of fast- and slow-migrating HJs in afψf space. HJs that take longer to migrate tend to have lower obliquities and wider orbits, whereas rapidly migrating HJs tend to end up on close-in orbits with a broad range of obliquities.

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