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194 claims from 109 papers, showing 41–60 of 109

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 › 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.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Dynamical dark energy beyond Planck? Constraints from multiple CMB probes, DESI BAO, and type-Ia supernovae

   Giarè · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“Notably, in this case, the cosmological constant value is recovered within two standard deviations.”
   2. Unchecked“Overall, CMB experiments other than Planck generally weaken the evidence for DDE.”
   3. Unchecked“I argue that the subsets of Planck data that strengthen the shift toward DDE are the temperature and E-mode polarization anisotropy measurements at large angular scales $\ell \lesssim 30$.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   On the homogeneity of SnIa absolute magnitude in the Pantheon+ sample

   Perivolaropoulos and Skara · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“The tension between the $M_<$ and $M_>$ best fit values is at a level more than $3σ$ with a best fit $d_{crit}$ very close to $20Mpc$.”
   2. Unchecked“This simulation shows that the maximum significance of the SnIa luminosity transition ($Σ\equiv \frac{|M_>-M_<|}{\sqrt{σ_{M_>}^2+σ_{M_<}^2}}$) in the real data, is larger than the corresponding maximum significance of $94\%$ of the corresponding homogeneous…

5. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   NEW EXTREME TRANS-NEPTUNIAN OBJECTS: TOWARD A SUPER-EARTH IN THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM

   Sheppard and Trujillo · The Astronomical Journal · 2016

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   1. Unchecked“Two new objects, 2014 SR349 and 2013 FT28, are extreme detached trans-Neptunian objects, with a>150 AU and perihelia well beyond Neptune (q>40 AU).”
   2. Unchecked“We also discovered the first outer Oort cloud object with a perihelion beyond Neptune, 2014 FE72.”
   3. Unchecked“Finally, with the discovery of 2013 FT28, we find that the longitude of perihelion is significantly correlated with the argument of perihelion and orbit pole angle for all extreme objects.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   TRACKING NEPTUNE’S MIGRATION HISTORY THROUGH HIGH-PERIHELION RESONANT TRANS-NEPTUNIAN OBJECTS

   Kaib and Sheppard · The Astronomical Journal · 2016

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   1. Unchecked“If Neptune finishes migrating within ~100 Myrs or less, we predict over 90% of high-perihelion objects near the 3:1 MMR will have semimajor axes within 1 AU of each other, very near the modern resonance's center.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Accretion of Uranus and Neptune from inward-migrating planetary embryos blocked by Jupiter and Saturn

   Izidoro, Morbidelli, Raymond, Hersant and Pierens · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“We show that similar-size ice giants do indeed form by collisions between planetary embryos beyond Saturn.”
   2. Unchecked“Similar-sized ice giants are consistently reproduced in simulations starting with 5-10 planetary embryos with initial masses of $\sim$3-6 ${\rm M_\oplus}$.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Tuning the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Observing Strategy for Solar System Science

   Schwamb, Jones, Yoachim et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“In general, most of the LSST cadence simulations produce +/-5% or less variations in our chosen key metrics, but a subset of the simulations significantly hinder science returns with much larger losses in the discovery and light curve metrics.”

9. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Origin and Evolution of Long-period Comets

   Vokrouhlický, Nesvorný and Dones · The Astronomical Journal · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Our results match the observed semimajor axis distribution of LPCs when Whipple's power-law fading scheme with an exponent $κ= 0.6^{+0.1}_{-0.2}$ is adopted.”
   2. Unchecked“Beyond $q = 15$~au, however, the population increases steeply and the isotropy of LPC orbital planes breaks.”

10. Physics and Astronomy › Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae

    Far-ultraviolet to Near-infrared Observations of SN 2023ixf: A High-energy Explosion Engulfed in Complex Circumstellar Material

    Teja, Singh, Basu et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Based on early light curve models of Type II SNe, we infer that the nearby dense CSM confined to (7+-3)e14cm (~45 AU) is a result of enhanced mass loss (10^{-3.0+-0.5} Msol/yr) two decades before the explosion.”
    2. Unchecked“We observe high-ionization absorption lines (FeII, MgII) in the ultraviolet spectra from very early on.”

11. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    The DESI DR1/DR2 evidence for dynamical dark energy is biased by low-redshift supernovae

    Huang, Cai and Wang · Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“In this paper, we reveal that this preference is significantly biased by an external low-redshift supernova (low-$z$ SN) sample, which was combined with the Dark Energy Survey SN program (DES-SN) in their Year-Five data release (DESY5).”
    2. Unchecked“Using the intercept in the SN magnitude-distance relation as a diagnostic for systematics, we find not only large dispersions but also a large discrepancy in the low-$z$ SN sample when compared to the high-$z$ DES-SN sample within the single DESY5 compilatio…
    3. Unchecked“Correcting for this low-$z$ systematics with or without including the cosmic microwave background data can largely reduce the preference for dynamical DE to be less than $2σ$.”

12. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Model-independent cosmological inference post DESI DR1 BAO measurements

    Mukherjee and Sen · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“Reconstruction with the DESI BAO + DES-5YR SN data sets predicts that the $Λ$CDM model lies outside the 3$σ$ confidence levels, whereas with DESI BAO + Union3 data, the $Λ$CDM model is always included within 1$σ$.”

13. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Early Solar System instability triggered by dispersal of the gaseous disk

    Liu, Raymond and Jacobson · Nature · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“The associated orbital shift caused a dynamical compression of the exterior part of the system, ultimately triggering instability.”
    2. Unchecked“The final orbits of our simulated systems match those of the Solar System for a viable range of astrophysical parameters.”
    3. Unchecked“The giant planet instability therefore took place as the gaseous disk dissipated, constrained by astronomical observations to be a few to ten million years after the birth of the Solar System.”

14. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    How Sedna and family were captured in a close encounter with a solar sibling

    Jílková, Zwart, Pijloo and Hammer · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“We conclude that they might have been captured in a near miss with a 1.8MSun star that impacted the Sun at ~340au at an inclination with respect to the ecliptic of 17--34deg with a relative velocity at infinity of ~4.3km/s.”
    2. Unchecked“We predict that the Sednitos-region is populated by 930 planetesimals and the inner Oort cloud acquired ~440 planetesimals through the same encounter.”

15. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Col-OSSOS: The Colors of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey

    Schwamb, Fraser, Bannister et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Including in our analysis constraints from the cold classical objects, which are known to exhibit unique albedos and $r-z$ colors, we find that within our measurement uncertainty, our observations are consistent with the primordial Solar System protoplanetes…
    2. Unchecked“Based on simple albedo and orbital distribution assumptions, we find that the neutral class outnumbers the red class, with a ratio of 4:1 and potentially as high as 11:1.”

16. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Re-assessing the formation of the inner Oort cloud in an embedded star cluster – II. Probing the inner edge

    Brasser and Schwamb · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“We report that the detached objects 2004 VN112 and 2010 GB174 are likely members of the IOC that were placed there while the Sun was in its birth cluster or during an episode of Solar migration in the Galaxy.”
    2. Unchecked“Based on our simulations we find that the maximum perihelion distance of SD objects is 41 AU when the semi-major axis is higher than 250 AU.”

17. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    1I/‘Oumuamua as an N2 Ice Fragment of an Exo‐Pluto Surface II: Generation of N2 Ice Fragments and the Origin of ‘Oumuamua

    Desch and Jackson · Journal of Geophysical Research Planets · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Here we demonstrate that impacts on the surfaces of Pluto-like Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) would have generated and ejected ~10^14 collisional fragments--roughly half of them H2O ice fragments and half of them N2 ice fragments--due to the dynamical instabilit…

18. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Pressure parametrization of dark energy: first and second-order constraints with latest cosmological data

    Cheng, Di Valentino, Escamilla, Sen and Visinelli · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“A joint analysis of Planck CMB, DESI, and DESY5 data yields the strongest evidence for DDE, with a $2.7σ$ deviation in the first-order model and over $4σ$ in the second-order model, providing strong statistical support for a departure from a cosmological con…
    2. Unchecked“The reconstructed DE evolution in the second-order case reveals a distinctive non-monotonic behavior in both energy density and $w_{\rm DE}(a)$, including clear phantom-crossing phenomena.”

19. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Outer Solar System Possibly Shaped by a Stellar Fly-by

    Pfalzner, Bhandare, Vincke and Lacerda · The Astrophysical Journal · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“A fly-by also naturally explains the puzzling fact that Neptune has a higher mass than Uranus.”

20. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Cosmological constraints on dark energy models using DESI BAO 2024

    Zheng, Qiang and You · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“Our findings indicate that in these parameterizations, the deviation from ($w_0$,$w_{1}$)=(-1,0) becomes more pronounced when using the combined data from DESI BAO, SNe Ia, and QSO compilations.”