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1,067 claims from 671 papers are on the record. 39 have been checked so far; the other 1,028 have no check with a result yet.

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141 claims from 80 papers, showing 41–60 of 80

1. 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 ${\rm M_\oplus}$.”

2. 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.”

3. 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.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Origin and Evolution of Long-period Comets

   Vokrouhlický, Nesvorný and Dones · The Astronomical Journal · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Our results match the observed semimajor axis distribution of LPCs when Whipple's power-law fading scheme with an exponent $κ= 0.6^{+0.1}_{-0.2}$ is adopted.”
   2. Unchecked“Beyond $q = 15$~au, however, the population increases steeply and the isotropy of LPC orbital planes breaks.”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Theoretical and Computational Physics

   Threshold values, stability analysis, and high- q asymptotics for the coloring problem on random graphs

   Krząkała, Pagnani and Weigt · Physical Review E · 2004

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   1. Unchecked“We derive a general criterion for the validity of this ansatz and, applying it to the ground state, we provide evidence that the 1RSB solution gives exact threshold values c_q for the q-COL/UNCOL phase transition.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Theoretical and Computational Physics

   Generalization of the cavity method for adiabatic evolution of Gibbs states

   Zdeborová and Krząkała · Physical Review B · 2010

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   1. Unchecked“A mapping between the states following method and the physics on the Nishimori line is also presented.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   The DESI DR1/DR2 evidence for dynamical dark energy is biased by low-redshift supernovae

   Huang, Cai and Wang · Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“In this paper, we reveal that this preference is significantly biased by an external low-redshift supernova (low-$z$ SN) sample, which was combined with the Dark Energy Survey SN program (DES-SN) in their Year-Five data release (DESY5).”
   2. Unchecked“Using the intercept in the SN magnitude-distance relation as a diagnostic for systematics, we find not only large dispersions but also a large discrepancy in the low-$z$ SN sample when compared to the high-$z$ DES-SN sample within the single DESY5 compilatio…
   3. Unchecked“Correcting for this low-$z$ systematics with or without including the cosmic microwave background data can largely reduce the preference for dynamical DE to be less than $2σ$.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Early Solar System instability triggered by dispersal of the gaseous disk

   Liu, Raymond and Jacobson · Nature · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“The associated orbital shift caused a dynamical compression of the exterior part of the system, ultimately triggering instability.”
   2. Unchecked“The final orbits of our simulated systems match those of the Solar System for a viable range of astrophysical parameters.”
   3. Unchecked“The giant planet instability therefore took place as the gaseous disk dissipated, constrained by astronomical observations to be a few to ten million years after the birth of the Solar System.”

9. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   How Sedna and family were captured in a close encounter with a solar sibling

   Jílková, Zwart, Pijloo and Hammer · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“We conclude that they might have been captured in a near miss with a 1.8MSun star that impacted the Sun at ~340au at an inclination with respect to the ecliptic of 17--34deg with a relative velocity at infinity of ~4.3km/s.”
   2. Unchecked“We predict that the Sednitos-region is populated by 930 planetesimals and the inner Oort cloud acquired ~440 planetesimals through the same encounter.”

10. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 1807.02960

    arXiv 1807.02960: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“A fly-by also naturally explains the puzzling fact that Neptune has a higher mass than Uranus.”

11. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 2412.04830

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    1. Unchecked“Our findings indicate that in these parameterizations, the deviation from ($w_0$,$w_{1}$)=(-1,0) becomes more pronounced when using the combined data from DESI BAO, SNe Ia, and QSO compilations.”

12. Physics and Astronomy

    DOI 10.3847/psj/ad29f4

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    1. Unchecked“Iapetus, Hyperion, Phoebe, and Oberon have surface ages that are a few Myr to a few tens of Myr younger than when Neptune entered the PKB (i.e., they are 4.52–4.53 Gyr old).”
    2. Unchecked“A much wider range of surface ages are found for the large moons Callisto, Ganymede, Titan, and Europa (4.1, 3.4, 1.8, and 0.18 Gyr old, respectively).”

13. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 2504.15274

    arXiv 2504.15274: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“A global fit to BAO, CMB, and calibrated SN data favors modified recombination over DDE.”

14. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 2505.22369

    arXiv 2505.22369: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“For the DESY5+DESI DR2+CC datasets, we obtain $H_0 = 67.91 \pm 2.33~\mathrm{km~s^{-1}~Mpc^{-1}}$.”
    2. Unchecked“Finally, DESY5+DESI DR2+CC datasets provide nearly decisive evidence favoring the PAge model over the standard $Λ\mathrm{CDM}$ model.”

15. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv cond-mat/0208280

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    1. Unchecked“We analyze a family of models that includes the Viana-Bray model, the diluted p-spin model or random XOR-SAT problem, and the random K-SAT problem, showing that the replica method provides an improvable scheme to obtain lower bounds of the free-energy at all…
    2. Unchecked“In the case of K-SAT the replica method thus gives upper bounds of the satisfiability threshold.”

16. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 2406.09212

    arXiv 2406.09212: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“Here, we show, through a dynamical systems analysis and a Bayesian statistical inference of cosmological parameters, that the additional cosmological solutions based on the new fixed point do not render steep-potential, single-field, accelerated expansion ob…

17. Physics and Astronomy

    DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2025/12/049

    DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2025/12/049: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“The combined analysis of CMB, BAO, and SNIa data favors an effective DE component that transitions from phantom to quintessence behavior at redshift z cross ∼ 0.4.”
    2. Unchecked“The probability of phantom crossing lies between 96.21% and 99.97%, depending on the SNIa data set used, and hence a simple monotonic evolution of the DE density is excluded at the ∼ 2-4σ CL.”
    3. Unchecked“Moreover, applying Occam's razor, we find no significant evidence for a negative dark energy density below z ∼ 2.5-3.”

18. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 2503.14454

    arXiv 2503.14454: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“We find no statistically significant preference for a departure from the baseline $Λ$CDM model.”

19. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 2105.12816

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    1. Unchecked“Planet migration or chaotic orbital reorganization occurring while the Solar System is still a cluster member is, according to our model, inconsistent with the presence of the Oort cloud.”

20. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 1702.02821

    arXiv 1702.02821: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“For the present random $K$-SAT problem we have investigated numerous structural properties also exhibiting clear transitions, but they appear not be correlated to the here observed easy-hard transitions.”