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Keyword: planetesimal disk ×Clear all

9 claims from 5 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Orbital Evolution of Planets Embedded in a Planetesimal Disk

   Hahn and Malhotra · The Astronomical Journal · 1999

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   1. Unchecked“We find that Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune evolve radially outwards as they scatter the planetesimals, while Jupiter's orbit shrinks as it ejects mass.”
   2. Unchecked“Higher-mass disks result in more rapid and extensive planet migration.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Constraining the Giant Planets’ Initial Configuration from Their Evolution: Implications for the Timing of the Planetary Instability

   Deienno, Morbidelli, Gomes and Nesvorný · The Astronomical Journal · 2017

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   1. Unchecked“We conclude that, although an early instability reproduces more easily the evolution of Neptune required to explain the structure of the Kuiper belt, such evolution is also compatible with a late instability.”

3. 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…

4. 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.”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Dynamics of the giant planets of the solar system in the gaseous proto-planetary disk and relationship to the current orbital architecture

   Morbidelli, Tsiganis, Crida, Levison and Gomes · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2007

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   1. Unchecked“The only systems that we found to reach a steady state are those in which the planets are locked in a quadruple mean motion resonance (i.e. each planet is in resonance with its neighbor).”
   2. Unchecked“After the disappearance of the gas, and in absence of planetesimals, only two of these six configurations (the least compact ones) are stable for a time of hundreds of millions of years or more.”