Tag: super-terre

Hot super-Earths with an hydrogen-rich atmosphere. The study: “Hot Super-Earths with Hydrogen Atmospheres: A Model Explaining Their Paradoxical Existence” of D. Modirrousta-Galian (INAF-OAPA) recently appeared on ApJ

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“Super-Earths” are rocky exoplanets with a mass between that of Earth and Uranus. Some of these planets may also have a close orbit around the parent star. For instance, the super-Earth 55 Cancri e has a mass of 8.6 Earth masses and it orbits at a distance of 0.016 AU (Astronomical Unit, which is the average distance between Earth and

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Planets migrations and impacts. The study: “A giant impact as the likely origin of different twins in the Kepler-107 exoplanet system” of A. S. Bonomo (INAF– OA di Torino) recently appeared on Nature Astronomy

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Exoplanets with a radius smaller than 3 Earth radii span a wide range of characteristics. In fact, both low density sub-Neptunian and high-density Earth- and Mercury-like planets have been observed with such a radius. This diversity suggests that these planets, despite being formed in a similar way, followed different evolutionary patterns depending on the characteristics of their host stars, the

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