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Multiple-planet Scattering and the Origin of Hot Jupiters

  • Authors: C. Beaugé and D. Nesvorný

Beaugé & Nesvorný 2012 The Astrophysical Journal 751 119.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 13.

Eccentricity (top) and inclination (bottom) distribution of planetary orbits resulting from our four-planet simulations. Color indicates the number of planets surviving in each system (i.e., blue denotes systems in which two of the initial four planets were ejected, and two survived). Here we stopped each simulation if a hot Jupiter formed and acquired a nearly circular orbit (defined as e < 0.01).

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