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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…
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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…