3 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
The Occurrence Rate of Nearby Planetary Companions to Hot Jupiters
Lizhou Sha, Andrew M. Vanderburg, Chelsea X. Huang +33
Of the > 500 confirmed transiting hot jupiters and approximately 2000 additional candidates today, only ten are known to have nearby companion planets. The survival of nearby compa…
astro-ph.EP2024
Aligning Planet-Hosting Binaries via Dissipative Precession in Circumstellar Disks
Konstantin Gerbig, Malena Rice, J. J. Zanazzi +2
Recent observations have demonstrated that some subset of even moderately wide-separation planet-hosting binaries are preferentially configured such that planetary and binary orbit…
astro-ph.EP2024
Wide Binary Orbits are Preferentially Aligned with the Orbits of Small Planets, but Probably Not Hot Jupiters
Sam Christian, Andrew Vanderburg, Juliette Becker +28
Studying the relative orientations of the orbits of exoplanets and wide-orbiting binary companions (semimajor axis greater than 100 AU) can shed light on how planets form and evolv…