THE HOT JUPITER PERIOD-MASS DISTRIBUTION AS A SIGNATURE OF IN SITU FORMATION
Desert in sma-mass space
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Magnetic Disc Truncation
B
Star
Disc
Competition between ram and magnetic pressures
Ram pressure
Magnetic Pressure
Tidal Torque - the easy bit
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a
m
M
R
Hard bit - 6 orders of magnitude from Q
Holistic View
magnetic truncation
tidal torques
dynamical migration?
By almog yalinewich