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1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Reduced Late Bombardment on Rocky Exoplanets around M Dwarfs

   Lichtenberg and Clement · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2022

   Simulations of late-stage planet formation around M dwarfs suggest reducing impacts that could aid prebiotic chemistry are rarer than around Sun-like stars, favouring FGK stars over M dwarfs.

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   1. UncheckedIn the authors' simulations, late impacts by chemically reduced bodies become less frequent on planets around lower-mass stars.“We find a decreasing rate of late-accreting reducing impacts with decreasing stellar mass.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Radial Distribution of Distant Trans-Neptunian Objects Points to Sun's Formation in a Stellar Cluster

   Nesvorný, Bernardinelli, Vokrouhlický and Batygin · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

   Simulations suggest the extended orbits of distant Solar System bodies can be explained by an early close stellar encounter, which implies the Sun was born in a fairly dense stellar cluster.

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   1. UncheckedFor a close stellar encounter to be likely, the Sun must have formed in a cluster with stellar density times residence time of about 10,000 Myr per cubic parsec or more.“For such an encounter to happen with a reasonably high probability the Sun must have formed in a stellar cluster with $ηT \gtrsim 10^4$ Myr pc$^{-3}$, where $η$ is the stellar number density and $T$ is the Sun's residence time in the cluster.”