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134 claims from 76 papers, showing 21–40 of 76

1. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   A Comprehensive Measurement of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant with 1 km/s/Mpc Uncertainty from the Hubble Space Telescope and the SH0ES Team

   Riess, Yuan, Macri et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“Our baseline result from the Cepheid-SN sample is H0=73.04+-1.04 km/s/Mpc, which includes systematics and lies near the median of all analysis variants.”

2. Physics and Astronomy

   arXiv 1508.05315

   arXiv 1508.05315: OpenAlex has no record of it

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   1. Unchecked“Our model's accuracy can be improved systematically, reaching 0.1 eV/atom for a training set consisting of 10 k crystals.”
   2. Unchecked“Out of 2 M crystals, 90 unique structures are predicted to be on the convex hull---among which NFAl$_2$Ca$_6$, with peculiar stoichiometry and a negative atomic oxidation state for Al.”
   3. Unchecked“Low formation energies result from A and B being late elements from group (II), C being a late (I) element, and D being fluoride.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   A Sedna-like body with a perihelion of 80 astronomical units

   Trujillo and Sheppard · Nature · 2014

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   1. Unchecked“The detection of 2012 VP113 confirms that Sedna is not an isolated object; instead, both bodies may be members of the inner Oort cloud, whose objects could outnumber all other dynamically stable populations in the Solar System.”

4. Physics and Astronomy

   arXiv 1208.2957

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   1. Unchecked“We found that the dynamical evolution is typically too violent, if Jupiter and Saturn start in the 3:2 resonance, leading to ejection of at least one ice giant from the Solar System.”
   2. Unchecked“Better results were obtained when the Solar System was assumed to have five giant planets initially and one ice giant, with the mass comparable to that of Uranus and Neptune, was ejected into interstellar space by Jupiter.”
   3. Unchecked“The best results were obtained when the ejected planet was placed into the external 3:2 or 4:3 resonance with Saturn and M_disk ~ 20 M_Earth.”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   THE ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION OF KUIPER BELT OBJECTS

   Fraser, Brown, Morbidelli, Parker and Batygin · The Astrophysical Journal · 2014

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   1. Unchecked“The cold population has a bright-end slope, $α_{\textrm{1}}=1.5_{-0.2}^{+0.4}$, and break magnitude, $H_{\textrm{B}}=6.9_{-0.2}^{+0.1}$ (r'-band).”
   2. Unchecked“We estimate the masses of the hot and cold populations are $\sim0.01$ and $\sim3\times10^{-4} \mbox{ M$_{\bigoplus}$}$.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Neptune's Migration into a Stirred-Up Kuiper Belt: A Detailed Comparison of Simulations to Observations

   Hahn and Malhotra · The Astronomical Journal · 2005

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   1. Unchecked“The more distant of these resonances, such as the 9:4, 7:3, 5:2, and the 3:1, can also capture particles in stable, eccentric orbits beyond 50 AU, in the region of phase space conventionally known as the Scattered Disk.”
   2. Unchecked“Indeed, 90% of the simulated particles that persist over the age of the Solar System in the so-called Scattered Disk zone never had a close encounter with Neptune, but instead were promoted into these eccentric orbits by Neptune's resonances during the migra…

7. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Limits on primordial non-Gaussianities from BOSS galaxy-clustering data

   D’Amico, Lewandowski, Senatore and Zhang · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“After validating our analysis against simulations, we find $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm equil.}= 207 \pm 292\, , f_{\rm NL}^{\rm orth.}= -68 \pm 73\, , f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc.}= 52 \pm 34$, at $68\%$ confidence level.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   JUMPING NEPTUNE CAN EXPLAIN THE KUIPER BELT KERNEL

   Nesvorný · The Astronomical Journal · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“The 2:1 resonance was at ~44 AU when Neptune reached ~28 AU.”
   2. Unchecked“If Neptune migration was conveniently slow after the jump, the sweeping 2:1 resonance would deplete the population of bodies at ~45-47 AU, thus contributing to the paucity of the low-inclination orbits in this region.”
   3. Unchecked“If Neptune's semimajor axis changed by fraction of AU at this point, perhaps because Neptune was scattered off of another planet, the 2:1 population would have been released at ~44 AU, and would remain there to this day.”

9. Physics and Astronomy › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

   Cluster Cepheids with High Precision Gaia Parallaxes, Low Zero-point Uncertainties, and Hubble Space Telescope Photometry

   Riess, Breuval, Yuan et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“We find no evidence of residual parallax offset in this magnitude range, zp=-3+/-4 muas, consistent with Lindegren:2021b and most studies.”
   2. Unchecked“The Cepheid luminosity (P=10d, solar-metallicity) in the HST near-infrared, Wesenheit system derived from the cluster sample is M_{H,1}^W=-5.902+/-0.025 and -5.890+/-0.018 mag with or without simultaneous determination of a parallax offset, respectively.”
   3. Unchecked“The SH0ES distance ladder calibrated solely from this sample gives H_0=72.8+/-1.3 and H_0=73.2+/-1.1 km/s/Mpc with or without offset marginalization; combined with all anchors we find H_0=73.01+/-0.99 and 73.15+/-0.97, respectively, a 5% or 7% reduction in t…

10. Physics and Astronomy › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

    Sedna and the Oort Cloud around a migrating Sun

    Kaib, Roškar and Quinn · Icarus · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“Contrary to previous understanding, we show that field star encounters play a pivotal role in setting the Oort Cloud's extreme inner edge, and due to their stochastic nature this inner edge sometimes extends to Sedna's orbit.”
    2. Unchecked“The Sun's galactic migration heightens the chance of powerful stellar passages, and Sedna production occurs around ~20-30% of the solar-like stars we study.”
    3. Unchecked“Considering the entire Oort Cloud, we find its median distance depends on the minimum galactocentric distance attained during the Sun's orbital history.”

11. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae

    Perlmutter, Aldering, Goldhaber et al. · Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona) · 1998

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    1. Unchecked“The measurement yields a joint probability distribution of the cosmological parameters that is approximated by the relation 0.8 Omega_M - 0.6 Omega_Lambda ~= -0.2 +/- 0.1 in the region of interest (Omega_M <~ 1.5).”
    2. Unchecked“For a flat (Omega_M + Omega_Lambda = 1) cosmology we find Omega_M = 0.28{+0.09,-0.08} (1 sigma statistical) {+0.05,-0.04} (identified systematics).”
    3. Unchecked“An open, Lambda = 0 cosmology also does not fit the data well: the data indicate that the cosmological constant is non-zero and positive, with a confidence of P(Lambda > 0) = 99%, including the identified systematic uncertainties.”

12. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Reassessing the formation of the inner Oort cloud in an embedded star cluster

    Brasser, Duncan, Levison, Schwamb and Brown · Icarus · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“All inner Oort clouds formed are consistent with the existence of (90377) Sedna, an inner Oort cloud dwarf planetoid, at the inner edge of the cloud: Sedna tends to be at the innermost 2% for Plummer models, while it is 5% for Hernquist models.”

13. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    INSTABILITY-DRIVEN DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION MODEL OF A PRIMORDIALLY FIVE-PLANET OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM

    Batygin, Brown and Betts · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“Particularly, our simulations demonstrate that the eigenmodes which characterize the outer solar system's secular dynamics can be closely matched with a 5-planet model.”
    2. Unchecked“Furthermore, provided that the ejection timescale of the extra planet is short, orbital excitation of a primordial cold classical Kuiper belt can also be avoided in this scenario.”

14. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Dynamical evidence for an early giant planet instability

    de Sousa, Morbidelli, Raymond, Izidoro, Gomes and Neto · Icarus · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Among self-stable systems -- where the planets are locked in a resonant chain that remains stable in the absence of a planetesimal's disk-- our self-consistently sculpted planetesimal disks nonetheless trigger a giant planet instability with a median instabi…
    2. Unchecked“The simulations that give the latest instability times are those that invoked long-range inward migration of Jupiter from 15 AU or beyond; however these simulations over-excited the inclinations of Kuiper belt objects and are inconsistent with the present-da…

15. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    THE ALBEDO-COLOR DIVERSITY OF TRANSNEPTUNIAN OBJECTS

    Lacerda, Fornasier, Lellouch et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“This color-albedo separation is evidence for a compositional discontinuity in the young solar system.”

16. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    On the homogeneity of SnIa absolute magnitude in the Pantheon+ sample

    Perivolaropoulos and Skara · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“The tension between the $M_<$ and $M_>$ best fit values is at a level more than $3σ$ with a best fit $d_{crit}$ very close to $20Mpc$.”
    2. Unchecked“This simulation shows that the maximum significance of the SnIa luminosity transition ($Σ\equiv \frac{|M_>-M_<|}{\sqrt{σ_{M_>}^2+σ_{M_<}^2}}$) in the real data, is larger than the corresponding maximum significance of $94\%$ of the corresponding homogeneous…

17. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    NEW EXTREME TRANS-NEPTUNIAN OBJECTS: TOWARD A SUPER-EARTH IN THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM

    Sheppard and Trujillo · The Astronomical Journal · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“Two new objects, 2014 SR349 and 2013 FT28, are extreme detached trans-Neptunian objects, with a>150 AU and perihelia well beyond Neptune (q>40 AU).”
    2. Unchecked“We also discovered the first outer Oort cloud object with a perihelion beyond Neptune, 2014 FE72.”
    3. Unchecked“Finally, with the discovery of 2013 FT28, we find that the longitude of perihelion is significantly correlated with the argument of perihelion and orbit pole angle for all extreme objects.”

18. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Accretion of Uranus and Neptune from inward-migrating planetary embryos blocked by Jupiter and Saturn

    Izidoro, Morbidelli, Raymond, Hersant and Pierens · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“We show that similar-size ice giants do indeed form by collisions between planetary embryos beyond Saturn.”
    2. Unchecked“Similar-sized ice giants are consistently reproduced in simulations starting with 5-10 planetary embryos with initial masses of $\sim$3-6 ${\rm M_\oplus}$.”

19. Physics and Astronomy › Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena

    What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?

    Scholtz and Unwin · Physical Review Letters · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“The observational constraints on a PBH in the outer Solar System significantly differ from the case of a new ninth planet.”
    2. Unchecked“This scenario could be confirmed through annihilation signals from the dark matter microhalo around the PBH.”

20. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Tuning the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Observing Strategy for Solar System Science

    Schwamb, Jones, Yoachim et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“In general, most of the LSST cadence simulations produce +/-5% or less variations in our chosen key metrics, but a subset of the simulations significantly hinder science returns with much larger losses in the discovery and light curve metrics.”