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Habitability of the moons formed in the disk of the 10 MJ planets. Each panel shows the eccentricity as a function of the semimajor axis of the moon orbits in units of the planet’s Hill radius. Left and right panels show the moons in dynamically cold and hot disks, respectively. Panels A and B show 1 au, panels C and D show 2 au, panels E and F show 3 au, and panels G and H show 5 au planetary orbit simulations. Habitable moons are indicated with green dots. Uninhabitable moons are classified into too hot (red dots), too cold (blue dots), and too small mass (black dots) categories. The size of the dots is proportional to the mass of the moons to the power of 1/3rd. In each panel, the horizontal dotted line shows the e = 0.1 upper eccentricity limit above that the confidence of the habitability calculations becomes less reliable.

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