The majority of hot Jupiters formed beyond the water ice line

arXiv:2607.15144 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-07-16 · Read on arXiv

Yaxing He, Bertram Bitsch, Adrien Houge, Joe Williams, Masahiro Ogihara

astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-07-16

Comments: 8 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in A&A Letters

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

Terminology

• Abundance — 47× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Metallicity — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Degeneracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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