3 papers
astro-ph.EP2025
The Influence of Cold Jupiters in the Formation of Close-in planets. II. Collisional Growth of Planetesimals
Marcela Best, Antranik A. Sefilian, Carolina Charalambous +2
Exoplanet observations have shown that the occurrence and orbital architectures of close-in super-Earths and sub-Neptunes are shaped by the presence of outer gas giant planets. Thi…
astro-ph.EP2023
The influence of cold Jupiters in the formation of close-in planets. I. planetesimal transport
Marcy Best, Antranik A. Sefilian, Cristobal Petrovich
The formation of a cold Jupiter (CJ) is expected to quench the influx of pebbles and the migration of cores interior to its orbit, thus limiting the efficiency of rocky planet form…
physics.pop-ph2022
The Parking Lot Planet
Marcy Best, Fernanda Correa, Juan Ignacio Espinoza
We give conditions for an exoplanetary system to function as an ideal amusement park/vacation resort (with its separate parking lot, of course); in case of massive human interplane…