The Resonant Remains of Broken Chains from Major and Minor Mergers

TESS and Kepler have revealed that practically all close-in sub-Neptunes form in mean-motion resonant chains, most of which unravel on timescales of 100 Myr. Using N -body integrations, we study how planetary collisions from destabilized resonant chains produce the orbital period distribution observ...

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Main Authors: Rixin Li, Eugene Chiang, Nick Choksi, Fei Dai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Series:The Astronomical Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/adce0c
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