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Reduced Hill radii of 580 known inner exoplanets versus their estimated Roche limits in units of Jupiter’s radius. The dashed diagonal line marks the locus of equal radii where the dynamical niche for satellites vanishes. The planets that fall below this line cannot have any stable satellites.
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