Continuous mass ablation of planets engulfed in stellar envelopes

arXiv:2605.11343 · astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-05-11 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-05-11

Updated: 2026-10-07

Comments: Submitted to A&A. Animated figures are available via https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZvLCitllq5s5MXv1hH1TnzruyMMslkZ9&si=KW-R2q9AHpAuUZuc

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Terminology

• Ablation — 101× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abundance — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• APEX — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Australian Research Council — 1× in this paper
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration — 1× in this paper
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• Phlegethon: a fully compressible magnetohydrodynamic code for simulations in stellar astrophysics
• The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XXXIV. Occurrence, mass distribution and orbital properties of super-Earths and Neptune-mass planets

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