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Hello Everyone

I am currently researching a paper on the history of exoplanet hunting and I have reached an impass. I have heard a theory about how massive planets migrate towards their parent star by interacting with other massive planets, but ihave been unable to find the original journal article or paper anywhere. Anyone who knows of any papers on the subject could they please direct me to where they were published?

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Kurdt said:
I am currently researching a paper on the history of exoplanet hunting and I have reached an impass. I have heard a theory about how massive planets migrate towards their parent star by interacting with other massive planets, but ihave been unable to find the original journal article or paper anywhere. Anyone who knows of any papers on the subject could they please direct me to where they were published?

Most planet migration scenarios I've heard of involve asymmetric torques from the protoplanetary disk, but I guess there are a lot of theories. Here's a paper that might be worth checking out:

Planet Migration
 
Thanks spacetiger but i already have information on interactions with planetary discs and other tidal force theories but this one was specifically about giant planet interactions.
 
Kurdt said:
Thanks spacetiger but i already have information on interactions with planetary discs and other tidal force theories but this one was specifically about giant planet interactions.

The paper is a review, so it includes those as well.
 
Ah. That will teach me to read just the first few lines of an abstract.

Sorry and thankyou
 
Kurdt said:
Sorry and thankyou

No problem at all. If that doesn't provide you with the information you need, try following the chain of references given in that paper (using the abstract service I linked or ADS).
 
Yes there were plenty references on the first paper I just needed a starter to get me going.
 
An additional reference

hi,
the follwoing is a paper that analyses the possiblity of interaction between two Jupiter like planets much after the 'formation' process is over..
shows that one could get ejected with the other orbiting the central star at very small radii...
this is suspected to be the funda behind the many jup size planets that have been found near nearby stars.
genusunique


http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1996Sci...274..954R&db_key=AST