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astro-ph2008★ 76 cited
On the origin of eccentricities among extrasolar planets
Daniel Malmberg, Melvyn B. Davies
Most observed extrasolar planets have masses similar to, but orbits very different from, the gas giants of our solar system. Many are much closer to their parent stars than would h…
astro-ph2008★ 88 cited
Red giant stellar collisions in the Galactic Centre
James E. Dale, Melvyn B. Davies, Ross P. Church +1
We show that collisions with stellar--mass black holes can partially explain the absence of bright giant stars in the Galactic Centre, first noted by Genzel et al, 1996. We show th…