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The accretionally heated atmospheres of protoplanets and brown dwarfs
Nick Choksi, Peter Gao, Jerry Xuan +2
The ranks of accreting planets and brown dwarfs are growing. To help interpret their spectra, we study how accretion affects a planet's atmosphere. The atmosphere is irradiated fro…
Two-stage disruption of resonant chains
Nick Choksi, Yoram Lithwick, Eugene Chiang +1
TESS is enabling the discovery of transiting planets around young stars. These observations suggest that most close-in planets were born in chains of mean-motion resonances that br…
The Resonant Remains of Broken Chains from Major and Minor Mergers
Rixin Li, Eugene Chiang, Nick Choksi +1
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 integrati…
The Prevalence of Resonance Among Young, Close-in Planets
Fei Dai, Max Goldberg, Konstantin Batygin +11
Multiple planets undergoing disk migration may be captured into a chain of mean-motion resonances with the innermost planet parked near the disk's inner edge. Subsequent dynamical…
Spectral Energy Distributions of Disc-Embedded Accreting Protoplanets
Nick Choksi, Eugene Chiang
Many dozens of circumstellar discs show signatures of sculpting by planets. To help find these protoplanets by direct imaging, we compute their broadband spectral energy distributi…
The maximum accretion rate of a protoplanet: how fast can runaway be?
Nick Choksi, Eugene Chiang, Jeffrey Fung +1
The hunt is on for dozens of protoplanets hypothesised to reside in protoplanetary discs with imaged gaps. How bright these planets are, and what they will grow to become, depend o…