Simulation suggests warm Jupiter exoplanets can be pushed closer to their star by another planet
Friday, October 10, 2014 - 09:00
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —A pair of astronomers with the University of California has demonstrated via computer simulation that the reason some hot or warm Jupiter exoplanets orbit their star so closely is because they are pulled there by another planet. In their paper published in the journal Science, Rebekah Dawson and Eugene Chiang describe their simulations and what their observations revealed.