Planet-Planet Scattering and ZLK Migration -- The Dynamical History of HAT-P-11

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Autores principales: Lu, Tiger, An, Qier, Li, Gongjie, Millholland, Sarah C., Rice, Malena, Brandt, G. Mirek, Brandt, Timothy D.
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author Lu, Tiger
An, Qier
Li, Gongjie
Millholland, Sarah C.
Rice, Malena
Brandt, G. Mirek
Brandt, Timothy D.
author_facet Lu, Tiger
An, Qier
Li, Gongjie
Millholland, Sarah C.
Rice, Malena
Brandt, G. Mirek
Brandt, Timothy D.
contents The two planets of the HAT-P-11 system represent fascinating dynamical puzzles due to their significant eccentricities and orbital misalignments. In particular, HAT-P-11 b is on a close-in orbit that tides should have circularized well within the age of the system. Here we propose a two-step dynamical process that can reproduce all intriguing aspects of the system. We first invoke planet-planet scattering to generate significant eccentricities and mutual inclinations between the planets. We then propose that this misalignment initiated von-Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai cycles and high-eccentricity migration that ultimately brought HAT-P-11 b to its present-day orbit. We find that this scenario is fully consistent only when significant tidally-driven radius inflation is accounted for during the tidal migration. We present a suite of N-body simulations exploring each phase of evolution and show that this scenario is consistent with all observational posteriors and the reported age of the system.
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spellingShingle Planet-Planet Scattering and ZLK Migration -- The Dynamical History of HAT-P-11
Lu, Tiger
An, Qier
Li, Gongjie
Millholland, Sarah C.
Rice, Malena
Brandt, G. Mirek
Brandt, Timothy D.
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
The two planets of the HAT-P-11 system represent fascinating dynamical puzzles due to their significant eccentricities and orbital misalignments. In particular, HAT-P-11 b is on a close-in orbit that tides should have circularized well within the age of the system. Here we propose a two-step dynamical process that can reproduce all intriguing aspects of the system. We first invoke planet-planet scattering to generate significant eccentricities and mutual inclinations between the planets. We then propose that this misalignment initiated von-Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai cycles and high-eccentricity migration that ultimately brought HAT-P-11 b to its present-day orbit. We find that this scenario is fully consistent only when significant tidally-driven radius inflation is accounted for during the tidal migration. We present a suite of N-body simulations exploring each phase of evolution and show that this scenario is consistent with all observational posteriors and the reported age of the system.
title Planet-Planet Scattering and ZLK Migration -- The Dynamical History of HAT-P-11
topic Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19511