Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-02-07
Lect.Notes Phys.729:233-256,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
23 pages, 8 figures. Review lecture at the 2006 Aussois Winter School "Open Problems in Celestial Mechanics". To appear in Lec
Scientific paper
10.1007/978-3-540-72984-6_8
Half the known extrasolar planets have orbital eccentricities in excess of 0.3. Such large eccentricities are surprising as it is thought that planets form in a protoplanetary disk on nearly circular orbits much like the current states of the solar system planets. Possible explanations for the large planetary eccentricities include the perturbations that accompany planet-planet scattering, the tidal interaction between the gas disk and the planets, Kozai's secular eccentricity cycles, the eccentricity excitation during planetary pair migration in mean motion resonance, the perturbations by stellar encounters, stellar-like relaxation that occurs if planets formed through gravitational instability, and the relative acceleration by the stellar jet system of the host star with respect to the companion. In this chapter, we comment on the relevance and characteristics of the various eccentricity origin theories.
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