Where Do Hot Jupiters Come From? Revisiting Tidal Disruption and Ejection in High-Eccentricity Migration

arXiv:2605.14433 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-05-14 · Read on arXiv

Qianli Fan, Shang-Fei Liu

astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-05-14

Comments: 17 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Core — 90× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 4× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Metallicity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hybrid Approach — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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