Disintegrating Rocky Exoplanets


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Lieshout, Rik van 
Rappaport, Saul 
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We discuss a new class of exoplanets that appear to be emitting a tail of dusty effluents. These disintegrating planets are found close to their host stars and have very hot, and likely molten, surfaces. The properties of the dust should provide a direct probe of the constituent material of these rocky bodies.

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astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.EP
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Springer International Publishing
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European Research Council (279973)