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The Narrow Formation Pathway of Hot Saturns: Constraints on Initial Planetary Properties
Minghao Xie, Sheng Jin, Dong-Hong Wu
The observed exoplanet population exhibits a scarcity of short-period Saturn-mass planets, a phenomenon referred to as the ``hot Saturn desert". This observational scarcity can be…
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The heating efficiency of hot Jupiters from a data-driven perspective
Sheng Jin, Dong-Hong Wu, Yi-Xuan Cao +1
The inflated radii of hot Jupiters have been explored by various theoretical mechanisms. By connecting planetary thermal evolution models with the observed properties of hot Jupite…