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most citedA super-massive Neptune-sized planet

37 citations · 42 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.EP2025★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 4 cited

Exploring the catastrophic regime: thermodynamics and disintegration in head-on planetary collisions

Jingyao Dou, Philip J Carter, Simon Lock +1

Head-on giant impacts (collisions between planet-size bodies) are frequently used to study the planet formation process as they present an extreme configuration where the two colli…

astro-ph.EP2024

Formation of super-Mercuries via giant impacts

Jingyao Dou, Philip J. Carter, Zoë M. Leinhardt

During the final stage of planetary formation, different formation pathways of planetary embryos could significantly influence the observed variations in planetary densities. Of th…

astro-ph.EP2023

A planetary collision afterglow and transit of the resultant debris cloud

Matthew Kenworthy, Simon Lock, Grant Kennedy +19

Planets grow in rotating disks of dust and gas around forming stars, some of which can subsequently collide in giant impacts after the gas component is removed from the disk. Monit…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 37 cited

A super-massive Neptune-sized planet

L. Naponiello, L. Mancini, A. Sozzetti +55

Neptune-sized planets exhibit a wide range of compositions and densities, depending onf cators related to their formation and evolution history, such as the distance from their hos…