The Occurrence and Architecture of Exoplanetary Systems
Joshua N. Winn (MIT), Daniel C. Fabrycky (U. Chicago)
(Submitted on 15 Oct 2014)
The basic geometry of the Solar System — the shapes, spacings, and orientations of the planetary orbits — has long been a subject of fascination as well as inspiration for planet formation theories. For exoplanetary systems, those same properties have only recently come into focus. Here we review our current knowledge of the occurrence of planets around other stars, their orbital distances and eccentricities, the orbital spacings and mutual inclinations in multiplanet systems, the orientation of the host star’s rotation axis, and the properties of planets in binary-star systems.
Comments: 40 pages [submitted to ARAA]
Subjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
Cite as: arXiv:1410.4199 [astro-ph.EP] (or arXiv:1410.4199v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this version)
Submission history
From: Joshua N. Winn
[v1] Wed, 15 Oct 2014 20:00:11 GMT (3176kb,D)