planets and satellites: formation

Formation of short-period planets by disc migration

Identifying Inflated Super-Earths and Photo-evaporated Cores

Evidence for Two Hot-Jupiter Formation Paths

Outer Architecture of Kepler-11: Constraints from Coplanarity

The Eccentricity Distribution of Short-period Planet Candidates Detected by Kepler in Occultation

Planetesimal Interactions Can Explain the Mysterious Period Ratios of Small Near-Resonant Planets

Overcoming the Meter Barrier and the Formation of Systems with Tightly Packed Inner Planets (STIPs)

Traditional formation scenarios fail to explain 4:3 mean motion resonances

Retired A Stars and Their Companions. VI. A Pair of Interacting Exoplanet Pairs Around the Subgiants 24 Sextanis and HD 200964

Press Coverage Dance of the planets gets intimate: Discovery News.com, July 30, 2010. Dancing Around a Dying Star: Astrobiology Magazine, July 30, 2010 Astronomers find planets locked in 'dance': UPI, July 29, 2010. Alien planets found locked in close embrace: MSNBC.com, July 28, 2010. Planets found around dying star: Astronomy Now, July 28, 2010. Alien Planets Gather Close Around Dying Star : Space.com, July 28, 2010. Caltech Astronomer Finds Planets in Unusually Intimate Dance around Dying Star: Caltech press release, July 28, 2010.

Secular Orbital Dynamics of Hierarchical Two-planet Systems

The Formation of Ice Giants in a Packed Oligarchy: Instability and Aftermath