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Simulations reveal that rocky, dry super-Earths with thin atmospheres are often protected by a Jupiter-like planet

Details: Published on 13 October 2020

Artist’s impression of a planetary system with two super-Earths and one Jupiter in orbit around a Sun-like
Credit: MPIA graphics department

MPIA press release

Based on the article "The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). III. Warm super-Earths and cold Jupiters: A weak occurrence correlation, but with a strong architecture-composition link ",
by M. Schlecker et al.

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020