[Interview] Where Did The Mysterious JUMBOs in The Orion Nebula Come From?

JUMBOs, Jupiter Mass Binary Objects. Over 500 of them were detected in the Orion Nebula by JWST. But where did they come from? How did they form and why are they in binary pairs? My guest has a good guess about it.

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🟣 Guest: Jessica Diamond

📜Formation of Jupiter-Mass Binary Objects through photoerosion of fragmenting cores
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.09159

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:34 JUMBOs
• 14:02 Photoerosion
• 24:57 Questions from Patreon community
• 31:26 Side track
• 34:30 Final thoughts

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