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Water/Icy Super-Earths: Giant Impacts and Maximum Water Content
Robert A. Marcus, Dimitar Sasselov, Sarah T. Stewart +1
Water-rich super-Earth exoplanets are expected to be common. We explore the effect of late giant impacts on the final bulk abundance of water in such planets. We present the result…
The Formation of the Collisional Family around the Dwarf Planet Haumea
Zoe M. Leinhardt, Robert A. Marcus, Sarah T. Stewart
Haumea, a rapidly rotating elongated dwarf planet (~ 1500 km in diameter), has two satellites and is associated with a "family" of several smaller Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) in sim…
Minimum Radii of Super-Earths: Constraints from Giant Impacts
Robert A. Marcus, Dimitar Sasselov, Lars Hernquist +1
The detailed interior structure models of super-Earth planets show that there is degeneracy in the possible bulk compositions of a super-Earth at a given mass and radius, determine…
Collisional Stripping and Disruption of Super-Earths
Robert A. Marcus, Sarah T. Stewart, Dimitar Sasselov +1
The final stage of planet formation is dominated by collisions between planetary embryos. The dynamics of this stage determine the orbital configuration and the mass and compositio…