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Hot-Jupiters and hot-Neptunes: A common origin?

Hot-Jupiters and hot-Neptunes: A common origin?

We compare evolutionary models for close-in exoplanets coupling irradiation and evaporation due respectively to the thermal and high energy flux of the parent star with observations of recently discovered new transiting planets. The models provide an overall good agreement with observations, although at the very limit of the quoted error …