The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). III. Warm super-Earths and cold Jupiters: A weak occurrence correlation, but with a strong architecture-composition link

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Recent observational findings have suggested a positive correlation between the occurrence rates of inner super-Earths and outer giant planets.

• These results raise the question of whether this trend can be reproduced and explained by planet formation theory.
• Here, we investigate the properties of inner super-Earths and outer giant planets that form according to a core accretion scenario.
• We study the mutual relations between these planet species in synthetic planetary systems and compare them to the observed exoplanet population.