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4 claims from 2 papers

1. 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…

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

   Intruder Alert: Breaking Resonant Chains with Planetesimal Flybys

   Li, O’Connor and Rasio · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“We find a planetesimal reservoir of total mass $\gtrsim 0.04 M_{\oplus}$ is required to disrupt MMR chains, depending on the mass distribution and the typical number of flybys executed by each planetesimal.”
   2. Unchecked“We verify that systems disrupted in this way are frequently unstable to close encounters within $\sim 100$Myr of the final flyby.”