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Exotic Earths: Forming habitable worlds with giant planet migration

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SCIENCE
Volume 313, Issue 5792, Pages 1413-1416

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AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1130461

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Close-in giant planets (e.g., hot Jupiters'') are thought to form far from their host stars and migrate inward, through the terrestrial planet zone, via torques with a massive gaseous disk. Here we simulate terrestrial planet growth during and after giant planet migration. Several-Earth-mass planets also form interior to the migrating jovian planet, analogous to recently discovered hot Earths.'' Very-water-rich, Earth-mass planets form from surviving material outside the giant planet's orbit, often in the habitable zone and with low orbital eccentricities. More than a third of the known systems of giant planets may harbor Earth-like planets.

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