KEPLER-108: A MUTUALLY INCLINED GIANT PLANET SYSTEM
Journal Article
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· The Astronomical Journal (Online)
The vast majority of well studied giant-planet systems, including the solar system, are nearly coplanar, which implies dissipation within a primordial gas disk. However, intrinsic instability may lead to planet–planet scattering, which often produces non-coplanar, eccentric orbits. Planet scattering theories have been developed to explain observed high-eccentricity systems and also hot Jupiters; thus far their predictions for mutual inclination (I) have barely been tested. Here we characterize a highly mutually inclined (I=24{sub −8}{sup +11}°), moderately eccentric (e≳0.1) giant planet system: Kepler-108. This system consists of two approximately Saturn-mass planets with periods of approximately 49 and 190 days around a star with a wide (∼300 au) binary companion in an orbital configuration inconsistent with a purely disk migration origin.
- OSTI ID:
- 22863128
- Journal Information:
- The Astronomical Journal (Online), Journal Name: The Astronomical Journal (Online) Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 153; ISSN 1538-3881
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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