In the News: Early exit for hot Jupiters

[CraigS]

In the News:

"Early exit for hot Jupiter due to deadly tides (http://www.physorg.com/news203332943.html)"



Hmm .. perhaps a slowing down in the rate of discoveries of gas giant exoplanets ?

Cheers

[renormalised]

No...nowhere near slowing down of anything. They're talking about "hot Jupiter's" in globs...nowhere else. I'd expect many of them to have been removed from their original star systems simply because of the gravitational interactions that occur in globs.