Why are there so few 'hot Neptune' exoplanets?

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There's apparently a dearth of close-orbiting Neptune- planets in our galaxy, and two observation techniques are starting to explain why.

Why are there so few 'hot Neptune' exoplanets? : Read more

 

[rod]

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This is what I see for the article link It could be interesting to read. The exoplanet.eu site shows 30 exoplanets with radii 3.8 to 4.0 earth radii. Some like K2-55 b are some 900 K with 2.85-day orbital period.

 

[rod]

A systematic validation of hot Neptunes in TESS data, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023MNRAS.519.1562M/abstract, February 2023.