Roche lobe overflow during gas giant destruction aligns stellar spins with orbits within tens of degrees regardless of starting conditions, offering an observable to differentiate this mechanism from high-eccentricity migration.
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Roche lobe overflow destruction of hot Jupiters clears all companions from the sub-Jovian desert inside ~4 days while most observed companions remain stable, unlike tidal disruption during high-eccentricity migration.
Dynamical tides exciting f-modes during high-eccentricity migration produce the hot Jupiter pile-up, Neptune ridge, and Neptune desert via orbital circularization and selective atmospheric mass loss.
Scattering between close-in super-Earths and secularly perturbed cold planets can launch some planets into free-floating orbits.
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Revealing the Origin of Desert Dwellers via Stellar Obliquities
Roche lobe overflow during gas giant destruction aligns stellar spins with orbits within tens of degrees regardless of starting conditions, offering an observable to differentiate this mechanism from high-eccentricity migration.
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Stability of Multiplanet Systems Through Hot Jupiter Destruction
Roche lobe overflow destruction of hot Jupiters clears all companions from the sub-Jovian desert inside ~4 days while most observed companions remain stable, unlike tidal disruption during high-eccentricity migration.
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Dynamical Tides during High-Eccentricity Migration produces the Hot Jupiter Pile-up, Neptune Ridge, and Neptune Desert
Dynamical tides exciting f-modes during high-eccentricity migration produce the hot Jupiter pile-up, Neptune ridge, and Neptune desert via orbital circularization and selective atmospheric mass loss.
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A Robust Launching Mechanism for Freely-Floating Planets from Host Stars with Close-in Planets
Scattering between close-in super-Earths and secularly perturbed cold planets can launch some planets into free-floating orbits.