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astro-ph2008★ 48 cited
Extrasolar Planet Eccentricities from Scattering in the Presence of Residual Gas Disks
Nickolas Moeckel, Sean N. Raymond, Philip J. Armitage
Gravitational scattering between massive planets has been invoked to explain the eccentricity distribution of extrasolar planets. For scattering to occur, the planets must either f…
astro-ph2007★ 25 cited
Binary Capture Rates for Massive Protostars
Nickolas Moeckel, John Bally
The high multiplicity of massive stars in dense, young clusters is established early in their evolution. The mechanism behind this remains unresolved. Recent results suggest that m…
astro-ph2006★ 33 cited
Capture Formed Binaries via Encounters with Massive Protostars
Nickolas Moeckel, John Bally
Most massive stars are found in the center of dense clusters, and have a companion fraction much higher than their lower mass siblings; the massive stars of the Trapezium core in O…