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13 claims from 6 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   LATE ORBITAL INSTABILITIES IN THE OUTER PLANETS INDUCED BY INTERACTION WITH A SELF-GRAVITATING PLANETESIMAL DISK

   Levison, Morbidelli, Tsiganis, Nesvorný and Gomes · The Astronomical Journal · 2011

   The paper models how a distant, self-stirring planetesimal disk could slowly destabilise the outer planets' resonant orbits, giving an instability late enough to fit the late heavy bombardment (about 700 Myr).

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   1. UncheckedViscous stirring of a planetesimal disk can drive a lasting energy exchange with a planet, even when no planet-particle close encounters occur.“We show that viscous stirring leads to an irreversible exchange of energy between a planet and a planetesimal disk even in the absence of close encounters between the planet and disk particles.”
   2. UncheckedAs the planets' orbits shift, the system passes through many weak secular resonances, and many of these can break the locked resonance and destabilise the planets.“During this process, the system crosses many weak secular resonances—many of which can disrupt the mean motion resonance and make the planetary system unstable.”

2. 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

   The paper measures brightness distributions of hot and cold Kuiper Belt objects from ecliptic surveys, compares them with the Jupiter Trojans, and discusses what the results imply for models of planetesimal formation.

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   1. UncheckedThe cold Kuiper Belt population's brightness distribution is fitted by a bright-end slope of about 1.5 and a break at absolute magnitude about 6.9 (r'-band).“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. UncheckedThe paper estimates the hot (dynamically excited) Kuiper Belt population at about 0.01 Earth masses and the cold (quiescent) one at about 3×10^-4 Earth masses.“We estimate the masses of the hot and cold populations are $\sim0.01$ and $\sim3\times10^{-4} \mbox{ M$_{\bigoplus}$}$.”

3. 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.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The Solar System could have formed in a low-viscosity disc: A dynamical study from giant planet migration to the Nice model

   Griveaud, Crida, Petit, Lega and Morbidelli · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“The gaps open by giant planets are wider and deeper for lower viscosity, reducing the damping effect of the disc and thus weakening resonant chains.”
   2. Unchecked“In a thin PPD, the four giant planets revert their migration and migrate outwards.”
   3. Unchecked“For three of our resonant chains, about 1% of the final configurations pass the four criteria to fit the Solar System.”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Mars' Growth Stunted by an Early Giant Planet Instability

   Clement, Kaib, Raymond and Walsh · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“Here we use 800 dynamical simulations to show that an early instability in the outer solar system strongly influences terrestrial planet formation and regularly yields properly sized Mars analogs.”
   2. Unchecked“In these simulations, accretion has begun in the Mars region before the instability, but the dynamical perturbation induced by the giant planets' scattering removes large embryos from Mars' vicinity.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Capture of Trojans by Jumping Jupiter

   Nesvorný, Vokrouhlický and Morbidelli · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“We find that the capture probability is (6-8)x10^-7 for each particle in the original transplanetary disk, implying that the disk contained (3-4)x10^7 planetesimals with absolute magnitude H<9 (corresponding to diameter D=80 km for a 7% albedo).”
   2. Unchecked“The jump capture is potentially capable of explaining the observed asymmetry in the number of leading and trailing Trojans.”