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Keyword: early solar system dynamics ×Clear all

5 claims from 3 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Chaotic capture of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids in the early Solar System

   Morbidelli, Levison, Tsiganis and Gomes · Nature · 2005

   Simulations suggest Jupiter's Trojans formed farther out and were captured during giant-planet migration, reproducing their orbital spread and total mass.

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   1. UncheckedJupiter's Trojan asteroids could have been captured briefly, just after Jupiter and Saturn crossed their 1:2 resonance, when the Trojan region was chaotic.“The capture was possible during a short period of time, just after Jupiter and Saturn crossed their mutual 1:2 resonance, when the dynamics of the Trojan region were completely chaotic.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors' simulations of chaotic capture reproduce the orbits and total mass of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids satisfactorily.“Our simulations of this process satisfactorily reproduce the orbital distribution of the Trojans and their total mass.”

2. 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

   Simulations of the early outer Solar System, including the sculpting of the planetesimal disk, suggest the giant planet instability most likely happened early in Solar System history.

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   1. UncheckedIn simulated systems that are stable without a planetesimal disk, the disk still triggers a giant planet instability at a median 37-62 million years.“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 instability time of 37-62 Myr for a reasonable r…”
   2. UncheckedSimulations with Jupiter migrating inward from 15 AU or more gave the latest instabilities but over-excited Kuiper belt inclinations, unlike today's Solar System.“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-day Solar System.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Early Stellar Flybys are Unlikely: Improved Constraints from Sednoids and Large- q Trans-Neptunian Objects

   Hu, Huang, Gladman and Zhu · The Astrophysical Journal · 2025

   N-body simulations of close stellar flybys suggest that flybys able to explain sednoid orbits and their constraints are unlikely (at most about 5%) in the early Solar System.

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   1. UncheckedTo keep detached extreme TNOs at low inclinations, a passing star would need to move in the ecliptic plane or in a plane symmetric about it.“To meet the inclination constraint of detached extreme TNOs, flybys have to be either coplanar ($i_\star \sim 0^\circ$) or symmetric about the ecliptic plane ($ω_\star \sim 0^\circ, i_\star \sim 90^\circ$).”