Why exomoons must be rare?

Abstract

The problem of the search for the satellites of the exoplanets (exomoons) is discussed recently. There are very many satellites in our Solar System. But in contrary of our Solar system, exoplanets have significant eccentricity. In process of planetary migration, exoplanets can cross some resonances with following growth of their orbital eccentricity. The stability of exomoons decreases, and many of satellites were lost. Here we give a simple example of loss satellite when eccentricity increased. Finally, we can conclude that exomoons must be rare due to observed large eccentricities of exoplanets.

6 pages,3 figures

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