The imprint of X-ray photoevaporation of planet-forming discs on the orbital distribution of giant planets

Abstract

High energy radiation from a planet host star can have strong influence on the final habitability of a system through several mechanisms. In this context we have constructed a catalogue containing the X-ray luminosities, as well as basic stellar and planetary properties of all known stars hosting giant planets (> 0.1 Mjup) that have been observed by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, XMM-Newton and/or ROSAT. Specifically in this paper we present a first application of this catalogue to search for a possible imprint of X-ray photoevaporation of planet-forming discs on the present-day orbital distribution of the observed giant planets. We found a suggestive void in the semi-major axis, a, versus X-ray luminosity, Lx, plane, roughly located between a ~ 0.05-1 au and Lx ~10^27-10^29 erg/s, which would be expected if photoevaporation played a dominant role in the migration history of these systems. However, due to the small observational sample size, the statistical significance of this feature cannot be proven at this point.

12 pages; accepted for publication on December 4, 2018 in MNRAS. The catalog presented in this paper is available for download on Harvard Dataverse (https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FPXFA5), updated references

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