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1. Physics and Astronomy › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

   Secular Transport during Disk Dispersal: The Case of Kepler-419

   Petrovich, Wu and Ali-Dib · The Astronomical Journal · 2018

   The paper argues that a decaying protoplanetary disk can explain the large eccentricity and anti-aligned orbits of the two giant planets around Kepler-419, which other proposals do not.

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   1. UncheckedAs the planet-forming disk around Kepler-419 wore away, the two giant planets are said to shift so the inner one holds most eccentricity, apses anti-aligned.“And as the disk is gradually eroded, the pair of planets are adiabatically transported to a new state where most of the eccentricity (or rather, the angular momentum deficit) is transferred to the inner planet, and the two apses are largely anti-aligned.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper argues that a massive protoplanetary disk's gravitational pull made the two planets' orbital apses centre on an anti-aligned state.“When the disk was massive, its precessional effect on the planets forced the two apses to center around an anti-aligned state.”