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Damping Obliquities of Hot Jupiter Hosts by Resonance Locking

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
When orbiting hotter stars, hot Jupiters are often highly inclined relative to their host star equator planes. By contrast, hot Jupiters orbiting cooler stars are more aligned.
J. J. Zanazzi, Janosz Dewberry, Eugene Chiang   +2 more
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The craters that never were: Anthropogenic origins of alleged impact structures in the Chiemgau region

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Public fascination with impact craters often drives bold speculations, but rigorous verification is critical. In southeastern Bavaria, numerous depressions have been proposed to represent impact craters associated with a catastrophic event in Celtic times (between 900 BC and 600 BC)—the so called “Chiemgau Impact.” To date, the evidence ...
Robert Huber, Hans Lauterbach, Robert Darga   +2 more
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Distribution and rare earth element abundances of apatite in Bennu samples determined by synchrotron X‐ray fluorescence spectroscopy

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Apatite is often the most rare earth element (REE)‐enriched mineral in chondritic meteorites. REE enrichment and fractionation levels in apatite grains can give insight into the aqueous fluids in which they formed and the conditions prevailing within the host body. In this study, we applied synchrotron X‐ray fluorescence (SXRF) spectroscopy to
B. J. Tkalcec, P. Tack, T. Baert, J. Herthogs, B. Vekemans, B. Bazi, E. De Pauw, M. Di Michiel, G. Falkenberg, J. Garrevoet, G. Libourel, M. Portail, V. Guigoz, C. Collin, H. C. Connolly Jr., D. S. Lauretta, L. Vincze, F. E. Brenker   +17 more
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Spin and Obliquity Evolution of Hot Jupiter Hosts from Resonance Locks

The Astrophysical Journal
When a hot Jupiter orbits a star whose effective temperature exceeds ∼6100 K, its orbit normal tends to be misaligned with the stellar spin axis. Cooler stars typically have smaller obliquities, which may have been damped by hot Jupiters in resonance ...
J. J. Zanazzi, Eugene Chiang
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Abundant microchondrules in 162173 Ryugu suggest a turbulent origin for primitive asteroids

Nature Communications
Chondrules are a characteristic feature of primitive Solar System materials and are common in all primitive meteorites except the CI-chondrites. They are thought to form owing to melting of solid dust aggregates by energetic processing within the solar ...
Matthew J. Genge, Natasha V. Almeida, Matthias van Ginneken, Lewis Pinault, Tobias Salge, Penelope J. Wozniakiewicz, Hajime Yano, Steven J. Desch   +7 more
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Observational Research on Star and Planetary System Formation [PDF]

, 1998
Institute scientists collaborate with a number of NASA Ames scientists on observational studies of star and planetary system formation to their mutual benefit. As part of this collaboration, SETI scientists have, from 1988 to the present: (1) contributed
Simpson, Janet P.
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Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1996 Annual Report [PDF]

, 1998
The Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) is a Multicampus Research Unit of the University of California (UC). IGPP was founded in 1946 at UC Los Angeles with a charter to further research in the earth and planetary sciences and in related
Ryerson, F. J.
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Precise mass and radius of a transiting super-Earth planet orbiting the M dwarf TOI-1235: a planet in the radius gap?

, 2021
© ESO 2020. We report the confirmation of a transiting planet around the bright weakly active M0.5 V star TOI-1235 (TYC 4384-1735-1, V ≈ 11.5 mag), whose transit signal was detected in the photometric time series of sectors 14, 20, and 21 of the TESS ...
Ricker, George R, Vanderspek, Roland K, Seager, Sara   +2 more
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VUV and mid‐UV photoabsorption cross sections of thin films of glycine and alanine: Application to their photochemistry in the solar system

Photochemistry and Photobiology, EarlyView.
Thin solid films of pure glycine or alanine (thicknesses ranging from 10 to 700 nm) were prepared on MgF2 windows using a vacuum sublimation/recondensation method. VUV‐UV spectroscopy of these films enabled us to characterize new absorption cross sections for glycine and alanine for VUV‐UV radiations between 120 and 300 nm.
Juliette Pastore, Hervé Cottin, Kafila Saïagh, Jodie Belilla, Fabien Stalport, Nicolas Fray, Nathalie Carrasco   +6 more
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The Effects of Non-ideal Mixing in Planetary Magma Oceans and Atmospheres

The Astrophysical Journal
Sub-Neptunes with hydrogen-rich envelopes are expected to sustain long-lived magma oceans that continuously exchange volatiles with their overlying atmospheres.
Aaron Werlen, Edward D. Young, Hilke E. Schlichting, Caroline Dorn, Anat Shahar   +4 more
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