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182 claims from 102 papers, showing 21–40 of 102

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   NEPTUNE’S ORBITAL MIGRATION WAS GRAINY, NOT SMOOTH

   Nesvorný and Vokrouhlický · The Astrophysical Journal · 2016

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   1. Unchecked“Thus, the non-resonant--to--resonant ratio obtained with the grainy migration is higher, up to ~10 times higher for the range of parameters investigated here, than in a model with smooth migration.”
   2. Unchecked“The grainy migration leads to a narrower distribution of the libration amplitudes in the 3:2 resonance.”

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

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   1. Unchecked“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. Unchecked“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

   Neptune's Migration into a Stirred-Up Kuiper Belt: A Detailed Comparison of Simulations to Observations

   Hahn and Malhotra · The Astronomical Journal · 2005

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   1. Unchecked“The more distant of these resonances, such as the 9:4, 7:3, 5:2, and the 3:1, can also capture particles in stable, eccentric orbits beyond 50 AU, in the region of phase space conventionally known as the Scattered Disk.”
   2. Unchecked“Indeed, 90% of the simulated particles that persist over the age of the Solar System in the so-called Scattered Disk zone never had a close encounter with Neptune, but instead were promoted into these eccentric orbits by Neptune's resonances during the migra…

4. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   The planet nine hypothesis

   Batygin, Adams, Brown and Becker · Physics Reports · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“This newly outlined dynamical architecture of the distant solar system points to the existence of a new planet with mass of $m_9\sim 5-10\,M_{\oplus}$, residing on a moderately inclined orbit ($i_9\sim15-25°$) with semi-major axis $a_9\sim 400 - 800\,$AU and…

5. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   DESI 2024: reconstructing dark energy using crossing statistics with DESI DR1 BAO data

   Calderón, Lodha, Shafieloo et al. · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“Our results hint towards an evolving and emergent dark energy behaviour, with negligible presence of dark energy at $z\gtrsim 1$, at varying significance depending on the data sets combined.”
   2. Unchecked“In all these reconstructions, the cosmological constant lies outside the $95\%$ confidence intervals for some redshift ranges.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   RETENTION OF A PRIMORDIAL COLD CLASSICAL KUIPER BELT IN AN INSTABILITY-DRIVEN MODEL OF SOLAR SYSTEM FORMATION

   Batygin, Brown and Fraser · The Astrophysical Journal · 2011

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   1. Unchecked“We develop a simple analytical model for secular excitation of cold KBOs and show that comparatively fast apsidal precession and nodal recession of Neptune, during the eccentric phase, are essential for preservation of an unexcited state in the cold classica…
   2. Unchecked“We further show that contamination of the hot classical and scattered populations by objects of similar nature to that of cold classicals has been instrumental in shaping the vast physical diversity inherent to the Kuiper belt.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Nonparametric late-time expansion history reconstruction and implications for the Hubble tension in light of recent DESI and type Ia supernovae data

   Jiang, Pedrotti, da Costa and Vagnozzi · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“Applied to DESI BAO and PantheonPlus SNeIa data, both methods indicate that deviations from a reference $Λ$CDM model in the $z \lesssim 2$ unnormalized expansion rate $E(z)$ are constrained to be $\lesssim 10\%$, but also consistently identify two features i…
   2. Unchecked“Breaking the $r_d$-$H_0$ degeneracy with the SH0ES prior on $H_0$, the significance of the tension between our nonparametric determination of $r_d=136.20^{+2.20}_{-2.40}\,{\text{Mpc}}$ and the \textit{Planck} $Λ$CDM-based determination is at the $5σ$ level,…
   3. Unchecked“We infer $c/(r_dH_0)=29.90 \pm 0.33$, with $r_d$ the sound horizon at baryon drag and $H_0$ the Hubble constant.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Using non-DESI data to confirm and strengthen the DESI 2024 spatially flat w 0 w a CDM cosmological parametrization result

   Park, Pérez and Ratra · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“From our joint compilation of CMB and non-CMB data, in a spatially-flat cosmological model, we obtain $w_0 = -0.850 \pm 0.059$ and $w_a = -0.59^{+0.26}_{-0.22}$ and find that this dynamical dark energy is favored over a cosmological constant by $\sim 2σ$.”

9. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Interpreting DESI 2024 BAO: Late-time dynamical dark energy or a local effect?

   Gialamas, Hütsi, Kannike et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“We find that this result is driven by low-$z$ supernova data.”

10. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Limits on primordial non-Gaussianities from BOSS galaxy-clustering data

    D’Amico, Lewandowski, Senatore and Zhang · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“After validating our analysis against simulations, we find $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm equil.}= 207 \pm 292\, , f_{\rm NL}^{\rm orth.}= -68 \pm 73\, , f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc.}= 52 \pm 34$, at $68\%$ confidence level.”

11. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    JUMPING NEPTUNE CAN EXPLAIN THE KUIPER BELT KERNEL

    Nesvorný · The Astronomical Journal · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“The 2:1 resonance was at ~44 AU when Neptune reached ~28 AU.”
    2. Unchecked“If Neptune migration was conveniently slow after the jump, the sweeping 2:1 resonance would deplete the population of bodies at ~45-47 AU, thus contributing to the paucity of the low-inclination orbits in this region.”
    3. Unchecked“If Neptune's semimajor axis changed by fraction of AU at this point, perhaps because Neptune was scattered off of another planet, the 2:1 population would have been released at ~44 AU, and would remain there to this day.”

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

    Cluster Cepheids with High Precision Gaia Parallaxes, Low Zero-point Uncertainties, and Hubble Space Telescope Photometry

    Riess, Breuval, Yuan et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We find no evidence of residual parallax offset in this magnitude range, zp=-3+/-4 muas, consistent with Lindegren:2021b and most studies.”
    2. Unchecked“The Cepheid luminosity (P=10d, solar-metallicity) in the HST near-infrared, Wesenheit system derived from the cluster sample is M_{H,1}^W=-5.902+/-0.025 and -5.890+/-0.018 mag with or without simultaneous determination of a parallax offset, respectively.”
    3. Unchecked“The SH0ES distance ladder calibrated solely from this sample gives H_0=72.8+/-1.3 and H_0=73.2+/-1.1 km/s/Mpc with or without offset marginalization; combined with all anchors we find H_0=73.01+/-0.99 and 73.15+/-0.97, respectively, a 5% or 7% reduction in t…

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

    Sedna and the Oort Cloud around a migrating Sun

    Kaib, Roškar and Quinn · Icarus · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“Contrary to previous understanding, we show that field star encounters play a pivotal role in setting the Oort Cloud's extreme inner edge, and due to their stochastic nature this inner edge sometimes extends to Sedna's orbit.”
    2. Unchecked“The Sun's galactic migration heightens the chance of powerful stellar passages, and Sedna production occurs around ~20-30% of the solar-like stars we study.”
    3. Unchecked“Considering the entire Oort Cloud, we find its median distance depends on the minimum galactocentric distance attained during the Sun's orbital history.”

14. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae

    Perlmutter, Aldering, Goldhaber et al. · Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona) · 1998

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    1. Unchecked“The measurement yields a joint probability distribution of the cosmological parameters that is approximated by the relation 0.8 Omega_M - 0.6 Omega_Lambda ~= -0.2 +/- 0.1 in the region of interest (Omega_M <~ 1.5).”
    2. Unchecked“For a flat (Omega_M + Omega_Lambda = 1) cosmology we find Omega_M = 0.28{+0.09,-0.08} (1 sigma statistical) {+0.05,-0.04} (identified systematics).”
    3. Unchecked“An open, Lambda = 0 cosmology also does not fit the data well: the data indicate that the cosmological constant is non-zero and positive, with a confidence of P(Lambda > 0) = 99%, including the identified systematic uncertainties.”

15. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Reassessing the formation of the inner Oort cloud in an embedded star cluster

    Brasser, Duncan, Levison, Schwamb and Brown · Icarus · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“All inner Oort clouds formed are consistent with the existence of (90377) Sedna, an inner Oort cloud dwarf planetoid, at the inner edge of the cloud: Sedna tends to be at the innermost 2% for Plummer models, while it is 5% for Hernquist models.”

16. 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.”

17. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    An overview of what current data can (and cannot yet) say about evolving dark energy

    Giarè, Mahassen, Di Valentino and Pan · Physics of the Dark Universe · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“However, intriguing hints supporting DDE emerge in combinations that do not include DESI-BAO measurements: SDSS-BAO combined with SN from Union3 and DESY5 (with and without CMB) support the preference for DDE.”

18. 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.”

19. 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…

20. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    THE ALBEDO-COLOR DIVERSITY OF TRANSNEPTUNIAN OBJECTS

    Lacerda, Fornasier, Lellouch et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“This color-albedo separation is evidence for a compositional discontinuity in the young solar system.”