The formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes with giant impacts
The majority of discovered exoplanetary systems harbour a new class of planets, bodies that are typically several times more massive than the Earth but that orbit their host stars well inside the orbit of Mercury. The origin of these close-in super-Earths and mini-Neptunes is one of the major unansw...
Main Authors: | Schlichting, Hilke (Contributor), Inamdar, Niraj K. (Contributor) |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor) |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press,
2015-07-28T14:31:04Z.
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Online Access: | Get fulltext |
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