Planetary Collisions: Electromagnetic Signals

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2003-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312439v1

Astrophys.J. 596 (2003) L95; AIP Conf.Proc. 713 (2004) 309-312

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, to appear in Proceedings of 14th Annual October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland, "The Search for Other Worlds". A

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1774544

We investigate the electromagnetic signals accompanied with planetary collisions and their event rate, and explore the possibility of directly detecting such events. A typical Earth--Jupiter collision would give rise to a prompt EUV-soft-X-ray flash lasting for hours and a bright IR afterglow lasting for thousands of years. With the current and forthcoming observational technology and facilities, some of these collisional flashes or the post-collision remnants could be discovered.

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