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falling evaporating body

(FEB)
(icy planet/planetoid evaporating due to stellar wind)

A falling evaporating body (FEB) is an icy planetary body (i.e., comet-like) detected through spectral lines from YSOs, presumed to be evaporating from stellar wind. Essentially, they are presumed to be exocomets.


(planet type)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocomet
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_Evaporating_Body
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007A%26A...466..201B/abstract

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