A Formation-Stage Bottleneck for Exomoons around Close-in Rocky Planets

arXiv:2608.04512 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-08-05 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.EP

Submitted: 2026-08-05

Updated: 2026-10-21

Comments: 18 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables; submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Core — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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Sources

• The JWST Search for Earth-Luna Analogs: Upper Limits on Exomoons and Refined Ephemerides for TOI 700 d and e

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