Planetary Migration
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Planetary migration is the large-scale inward or outward movement of a planet from its birth location due to angular momentum exchange with the protoplanetary disk. It explains how hot Jupiters arrived at their current close-in orbits and may have dramatically reshaped the architecture of many planetary systems.
Category: Exoplanet Science