"“The Neptunian Ridge stands tall above the Desert and Savanna. It provides us with a key to understanding the physical mechanisms shaping the Desert,” points out Vincent Bourrier. Most Neptunes may be distributed over the Savanna and Desert early in their life by migrating within the disk in which they formed. The existence of the Ridge suggests that some Neptune-size planets are brought to this region by a type of migration called high-eccentricity migration, which occurs later in their life and allow them to survive erosion from the stars.
These migration processes, coupled with photoevaporation, likely shape the distinct features observed in the Neptunian landscape. The similarities between the Neptunian Ridge and another feature in the exoplanet distribution, the hot Jupiter pileup, suggests that similar evolutionary processes may influence both groups of planets."
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https://astrobiology.com/2024/09/hidden-exoplanets-between-the-neptunian-desert-and-savanna.html
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