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Table 3
Mass fluxes of several potential supply or production mechanisms, and of the main destruction mechanisms (destructive collisions and radiative transfer blowout).
| Mechanism | Mass flux (M⊕yr-1) |
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| Warm belt | |
| PR drag from 140 AU | <1.2 × 10-12 |
| Planetesimal scattering | ≲5 × 10-11 |
| Collisions | ~− 4 × 10-10 |
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| Hot ring | |
| PR drag from 2 AU | <1.4 × 10-11 |
| Evaporating planet1 | ~10-9 |
| Blowout | ~− 8 × 10-8 |
Notes.
(1)
This is the value found by Rappaport et al. (2012) for KIC 12557548 b. It is given here for comparison.
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