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Science, 1998 A planet orbiting in a disk of planetesimals can experience an instability in which it migrates to smaller orbital radii. Resonant interactions between the planet and planetesimals remove angular momentum from the planetesimals, increasing their ...
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A New Family of Planets ? "Ocean Planets" [PDF]
Icarus, 2003 A new family of planets is considered which is between rochy terrestrial planets and gaseous giant ones: "Ocean-Planets". We present the possible formation, composition and internal models of these putative planets, including that of their ocean, as well
Brachet, F. +9 more
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Free-floating Planets, Survivor Planets, Captured Planets, and Binary Planets from Stellar Flybys
The Astrophysical JournalIn star clusters, close stellar encounters can strongly impact the architecture of a planetary system or even destroy it. We present a systematic study of the effects of stellar flybys on two-planet systems.
Fangyuan Yu, Dong Lai
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Tilting Planets during Planet Scattering [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2021 Abstract Observational constraints on planetary spin axis have recently become possible, and they have revealed a system that favors large spin-axis misalignment, low stellar spin–orbit misalignment, and high eccentricity. To explain the origin of such systems, we propose a mechanism that could tilt the planetary spin axis during planet ...
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Stellar Flybys Interrupting Planet–Planet Scattering Generates Oort Planets [PDF]
The Astronomical Journal, 2019 Abstract Wide-orbit exoplanets are starting to be detected, and planetary formation models are under development to understand their properties. We propose a population of “Oort” planets around other stars, forming by means of a mechanism analogous to how the solar system’s Oort cloud of comets was populated.
Nora Bailey, Daniel Fabrycky
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Spin Dynamics of Extrasolar Giant Planets in Planet–Planet Scattering [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 Abstract Planet–planet scattering best explains the eccentricity distribution of extrasolar giant planets, and past literature showed that the orbits of planets evolve due to planet–planet scattering. This work studies the spin evolution of planets in planet–planet scattering in two-planet systems.
Yu-Cian Hong +3 more
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2000 The first known extrasolar planet in orbit around a Sun-like star was discovered in 1995. This object, as well as over two dozen subsequently detected extrasolar planets, were all identified by observing periodic variations of the Doppler shift of light emitted by the stars to which they are bound.
J J, Lissauer, G W, Marcy, S, Ida
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Atmosphere loss in planet–planet collisions [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2020 ABSTRACT Many of the planets discovered by the Kepler satellite are close orbiting super-Earths or mini-Neptunes. Such objects exhibit a wide spread of densities for similar masses. One possible explanation for this density spread is giant collisions stripping planets of their atmospheres.
Thomas R Denman +3 more
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Absence of a metallicity effect for ultra-short-period planets [PDF]
, 2017 Ultra-short-period (USP) planets are a newly recognized class of planets with periods shorter than one day and radii smaller than about 2 Earth radii.
Cargile, Phillip +9 more
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The Densities of Planets in Multiple Stellar Systems [PDF]
, 2017 We analyze the effect of companion stars on the bulk density of 29 planets orbiting 15 stars in the Kepler field. These stars have at least one stellar companion within 2", and the planets have measured masses and radii, allowing an estimate of their ...
Furlan, E., Howell, S. B.
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