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Marion Neveu-VanMalle

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Companions of Hot Jupiters: two decades of radial velocity monitoring with CORALIE

Hot Jupiters are thought to form through multiple pathways, some of which can leave observable signatures in the architecture of their planetary systems. Massive outer companions, in particular, can provide important constraints on the dynamical histories of hot Jupiters. We aim to characterize the occurrence rate and orbital properties of additional giant companions in hot Jupiter systems, and to investigate whether these companions provide evidence for the role of dynamical interactions in shaping the hot Jupiter population. We perform a homogeneous long-term radial-velocity analysis of 147 WASP hot Jupiter systems observed with the CORALIE spectrograph between 2007 and 2025. We identify or refine 13 outer giant companions and use individual radial-velocity posteriors within a Bayesian occurrence-rate framework to measure the frequency of giant companions over orbital periods of 10--6250 days. The occurrence rate of additional giant companions increases strongly with orbital period, from {2}lt;0.01$ and 0.02 at 10--50 and 50--250 days to 0.05 and 0.17 at 250--1250 and 1250--6250 days, respectively, in agreement with the giant-planet occurrence of the general FGK population and with previous estimates of outer companions to hot Jupiters. Hot Jupiters with detected companions have longer orbital periods and higher eccentricities than those without. We also find that companion eccentricity decreases with hot Jupiter period, and that the companion-to-hot-Jupiter mass ratio increases with period ratio, both consistent with expectations from high-eccentricity migration (HEM). Our results support HEM as the mechanism shaping hot Jupiters with outer companions. Combining long-baseline radial velocities with future Gaia astrometry will further constrain companion masses, mutual inclinations, and dynamical histories.

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Peculiar architectures for the WASP-53 and WASP-81 planet-hosting systems

We report the detection of two new systems containing transiting planets. Both were identified by WASP as worthy transiting planet candidates. Radial-velocity observations quickly verified that the photometric signals were indeed produced by two transiting hot Jupiters. Our observations also show the presence of additional Doppler signals. In addition to short-period hot Jupiters, we find that the WASP-53 and WASP-81 systems also host brown dwarfs, on fairly eccentric orbits with semi-major axes of a few astronomical units. WASP-53c is over 16 $M_{\rm Jup} \sin i_{\rm c}$ and WASP-81c is 57 $M_{\rm Jup} \sin i_{\rm c}$. The presence of these tight, massive companions restricts theories of how the inner planets were assembled. We propose two alternative interpretations: a formation of the hot Jupiters within the snow line, or the late dynamical arrival of the brown dwarfs after disc-dispersal. We also attempted to measure the Rossiter--McLaughlin effect for both hot Jupiters. In the case of WASP-81b we fail to detect a signal. For WASP-53b we find that the planet is aligned with respect to the stellar spin axis. In addition we explore the prospect of transit timing variations, and of using Gaia's astrometry to measure the true masses of both brown dwarfs and also their relative inclination with respect to the inner transiting hot Jupiters.

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