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Water delivery to a delicate system

The limits on late accretion and its associated water delivery to potential habitable planets are derived by examining the dynamical stability of the resonance-bound TRAPPIST-1 system.

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Fig. 1: Seven planets of about Earth-size have been discovered around a red dwarf TRAPPIST-1.

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Ogihara, M. Water delivery to a delicate system. Nat Astron 6, 18–19 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01520-y

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