New paper: Investigating the Formation of Planets Interior to in situ Hot Jupiters
In a his new first-author paper (now on arXiv), UW–Madison undergraduate alumni Devansh Mathur investigates what happens to small planetary embryos interior to a forming hot Jupiter. Using hundreds of N-body simulations, he showed that if enough solid material is pushed inward during short-range migration, both the giant planet and smaller interior companion planets could …