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1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Planetesimal rings as the cause of the Solar System’s planetary architecture

   Izidoro, Dasgupta, Raymond, Deienno, Bitsch and Isella · Nature Astronomy · 2021

   The paper models pressure bumps in the Sun's early gas disc and suggests the Solar System formed from rings of planetesimals rather than a continuous disc, with the rings explaining several features of the Solar System.

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   1. UncheckedSimulations of a gas disc with pressure bumps produce up to three planetesimal rings, at about 1 au, 3-4 to 10-20 au, and 20 to 45 au.“Our simulations show that dust piles up at the bumps and forms up to three rings of planetesimals: a narrow ring near 1~au, a wide ring between $\sim$3-4~au and $\sim$10-20~au, and a distant ring between $\sim$20~au and $\sim$45~au.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper's modelled outermost planetesimal ring is consistent with models that place a primordial planetesimal disk beyond Uranus's current orbit.“The outermost ring is consistent with dynamical models of Solar System evolution proposing that the early Solar System had a primordial planetesimal disk beyond the current orbit of Uranus.”