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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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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 ...
Hansen, Brad +3 more
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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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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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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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Scientific American, 2006 A planet is an end product of disk accretion around a primary star or substar. I quantify this definition by the degree to which a body dominates the other masses that share its orbital zone. Theoretical and observational measures of dynamical dominance reveal a gap of four to five orders of magnitude separating the eight planets of our solar system ...
Steven Soter, Steven Soter
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Dynamical Outcomes of Planet‐Planet Scattering [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2008 Observations in the past decade have revealed extrasolar planets with a wide range of orbital semimajor axes and eccentricities. Based on the present understanding of planet formation via core accretion and oligarchic growth, we expect that giant planets often form in closely packed configurations.
Sourav Chatterjee +4 more
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, 2007 We review the interior structure and evolution of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and giant exoplanets with particular emphasis on constraining their global composition. Compared to the first edition of this review, we provide a new discussion of the atmospheric compositions of the solar system giant planets, we discuss the discovery of ...
Guillot, Tristan, Gautier, Daniel
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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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PLANET-PLANET SCATTERING IN PLANETESIMAL DISKS [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2009 We study the final architecture of planetary systems that evolve under the combined effects of planet-planet and planetesimal scattering. Using N-body simulations we investigate the dynamics of marginally unstable systems of gas and ice giants both in isolation and when the planets form interior to a planetesimal belt.
Noel Gorelick +2 more
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