Thomas Hands

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20142021

most citedUnderstanding the assembly of Kepler's compact planetary systems

37 citations · 72 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.EP2021★ 9 cited

Capture of interstellar objects II: by the Solar system

Walter Dehnen, Thomas O. Hands, Ralph Schönrich

Capture of interstellar objects (ISOs) into the Solar system is dominated by ISOs with asymptotic incoming speeds $v_{\infty} < 4$ km\,s $^{- 1}$ . The capture rate is proportional to th…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 10 cited

Capture of interstellar objects I: the capture cross-section

Walter Dehnen, Thomas O. Hands

We study the capture of interstellar objects (ISOs) by a planet-star binary with mass ratio $q ≪ 1$ , semi-major axis $a_{p}$ , orbital speed $v_{c}$ , and eccentricity $e_{p}$ . Very close…