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astro-ph.EP2026
Growing Planets Produce Extreme Dust Signatures
Philip J. Carter, Zoë M. Leinhardt
The paper links the amount of dust observed in extreme debris disks to the size of the planetary collisions that created them, showing that the most massive disks require impacts b…
astro-ph.EP2025
A "New Hope" for Moon Formation: Presenting a Multiple Impact Pathway
Harrison Davies, Philip J. Carter, Louis Eddershaw +2
The leading hypothesis for the origin of the Moon, that of a single giant impact, faces significant challenges. These include either the need for an impactor with a near-identical…
astro-ph.EP2025
Atmospheric loss during giant impacts: mechanisms and scaling of near- and far-field loss
Matthew J. Roche, Simon J. Lock, Jingyao Dou +3
The primary epoch of planetary accretion concludes with giant impacts - highly energetic collisions between proto-planets that can play a key role in shaping a planet's inventory o…