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Concept of Thermal Bulges. Pin-Gao Gu (ASIAA) He-Feng Hsieh (National Taiwan Univ.) Gordon I. Ogilvie (Univ. of Cambridge). Q: some hot Jupiters are too large…. (Bodenheimer, Lin, & Mardling; Baraffe et al.; etc.)
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Concept of Thermal Bulges Pin-Gao Gu (ASIAA) He-Feng Hsieh (National Taiwan Univ.) Gordon I. Ogilvie (Univ. of Cambridge) Q: some hot Jupiters are too large…. (Bodenheimer, Lin, & Mardling; Baraffe et al.; etc.) A: can stellar irradiation drive a hot Jupiter away from synchronous rotation?!