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1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The effect of late giant collisions on the atmospheres of protoplanets and the formation of cold sub-Saturns

   Ali-Dib, Cumming and Lin · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2021

   The paper examines whether collisions between sub-critical protoplanets can produce cold sub-Saturns, planets seen by microlensing, without the planets growing into gas giants.

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   1. UncheckedImpactors about 5% of the mass of a near-runaway envelope can strip it entirely via a thermally driven wind from the core, per the paper's models.“We show that impactors ~ 5% the mass of near-runaway envelopes around massive cores can efficiently remove these envelopes entirely via a thermally-driven super-Eddington wind emanating from the core itself, in contrast with the stellar Parker winds usually considered.”
   2. UncheckedAfter merging, the cores resume gas accretion, but transitional discs fade too quickly for them to build envelopes massive enough for runaway accretion.“But, the evolution timescale of transitional discs is too brief for the cores to acquire sufficiently massive envelopes to undergo runaway accretion despite their large combined masses.”
   3. UncheckedLate giant collisions between sub-critical protoplanets could produce cold sub-Saturns without turning them into gas giants, according to the paper's models.“Consequently, these events lead to the emergence of CSS without their transformation into gas giants.”