Larger than they ought to be

Pin-Gao Gu
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Pin-Gao Gu: Pin-Gao Gu is at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 10617, Taiwan. gu@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw

Nature, 2010, vol. 465, issue 7296, 300-301

Abstract: The finding that some gas-giant exoplanets are much larger than theory predicts has been boggling astronomers' minds. Planetary heating caused by gravitational tidal interactions might be a piece of the puzzle.

Date: 2010
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