Planet-planet scattering and free-floating planets
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Lazarus dF star
Number of posts : 3337 Registration date : 2008-06-12
Subject: Planet-planet scattering and free-floating planets 12th January 2012, 4:13 am
Explaining the free-floating planet population discovered through microlensing with planet-planet scattering alone would require unrealistic initial systems with very large numbers of giant planets.