Simulations of giant impacts between 0.2-4 Earth-mass planets yield post-impact luminosities of 5e-5 to 0.1 L_sun cooling over 1-2000 days, predicting 0-14 detections in Gaia DR4 and a comparable number in LSST.
A hit-and-run Giant Impact scenario
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The formation of the Moon from the debris of a slow and grazing giant impact of a Mars-sized impactor on the proto-Earth (Cameron & Ward 1976, Canup & Asphaug 2001) is widely accepted today. We present an alternative scenario with a hit-and-run collision (Asphaug 2010) with a fractionally increased impact velocity and a steeper impact angle.
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Can giant impacts be directly detected in other star systems?
Simulations of giant impacts between 0.2-4 Earth-mass planets yield post-impact luminosities of 5e-5 to 0.1 L_sun cooling over 1-2000 days, predicting 0-14 detections in Gaia DR4 and a comparable number in LSST.