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Ultra-short-period Planets from Secular Chaos

  • Authors: Cristobal Petrovich, Emily Deibert, and Yanqin Wu

2019 The Astronomical Journal 157 180.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 9.

Eccentricity distributions for the Kepler-10b planets that do not reach the threshold ﹩{a}_{1}(1-{e}_{1}^{2})\lt 0.02\,\mathrm{au}﹩ to become USP planets in our fiducial integrations (e, i from Rayleigh with σ = 0.1 and tmax = 30 Myr). The red line indicates the time-averaged distribution of the ensemble, while the black line shows the initial distribution. For reference, the thin dashed lines show the Rayleigh distributions with σ = 0.1 (black) and σ = 0.2 (red). The distributions are normalized by the tallest bin.

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