Warm Jupiter migration pathways. I. Radial veloc.

Unlike hot Jupiters, which can result from high-eccentricity tidal migration, warm Jupiters between 0.1 and 1au (~10-365days) are in many ways more challenging to explain because they reside outside the tidal influence of their host stars. Warm Jupiters should therefore preserve traces of their origins as their eccentricities are directly related to their past interactions.

We analyze the eccentricities of 200 warm Jupiters orbiting 194 Sunlike host stars (with FGKM spectral types) using 18,587 radial velocity (RV) measurements across 40 high-resolution spectrographs. RVs are compiled from the literature and are supplemented with 540 new observations from MINERVA-Australis at Mount Kent Observatory and the Habitable-zone Planet Finder spectrograph at McDonald Observatory's Hobby-Eberly Telescope, which are timed to improve eccentricity constraints by sampling orbits near periastron passage.