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The analytical paper is here - https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/5/eaav2032 It seems the authors still have uncertainties in available monitoring for off-shore slips but on-shore is 'good'.

I thought >30 Jupiter masses and you were into brown dwarf territory?

From two-fish "One plausible answer is that they can," but I don't think this can work, because at present hot Jupiter orbital distances (generally <1 au) ALL original gas would NEVER condense since it is too hot, so the Jupiters can ONLY form beyond the snow/ice line which seems to lie beyond...

The impression I have been getting is, as most here say, that gas and ice giants form beyond the 'snow line' (where gas cools enough to go molecular/solid) in 10E5 years or so, whilst the silicates (rocky bits) form "terrestrial style" planets inside the ice line but very much more slowly, in...