A natural formation scenario for misaligned and short-period eccentric extrasolar planets

Details A natural formation scenario for misaligned and short-period eccentric extrasolar planets A natural formation scenario for misaligned and short-period eccentric extrasolar planets

2011-07-11

arxiv.org/abs/1107.2113v2

2011 MNRAS 417, 3, 1817-1822

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

7 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Updated to match published version

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19390.x

Recent discoveries of strongly misaligned transiting exoplanets pose a challenge to the established planet formation theory which assumes planetary systems to form and evolve in isolation. However, the fact that the majority of stars actually do form in star clusters raises the question how isolated forming planetary systems really are. Besides radiative and tidal forces the presence of dense gas aggregates in star-forming regions are potential sources for perturbations to protoplanetary discs or systems. Here we show that subsequent capture of gas from large extended accretion envelopes onto a passing star with a typical circumstellar disc can tilt the disc plane to retrograde orientation, naturally explaining the formation of strongly inclined planetary systems. Furthermore, the inner disc regions may become denser, and thus more prone to speedy coagulation and planet formation. Pre-existing planetary systems are compressed by gas inflows leading to a natural occurrence of close-in misaligned hot Jupiters and short-period eccentric planets. The likelihood of such events mainly depends on the gas content of the cluster and is thus expected to be highest in the youngest star clusters.

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