Cores and luminous giant planets

dF star Number of posts : 3337 Registration date : 2008-06-12

Luminosity of young Jupiters revisited. Massive cores make hot planets
http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.5746

Increased core mass can lead to increased luminosity of young giant planets. Interpretation of the masses of imaged giant planets (HR 8799 and Beta Pictoris, I'm looking at YOU!) just became more complicated...

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