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194 claims from 109 papers, showing 61–80 of 109

1. 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.”

2. 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.”

3. 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…

4. 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.”

5. 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.”

6. 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.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   The Dark Energy Survey: Cosmology Results With ~1500 New High-redshift Type Ia Supernovae Using The Full 5-year Dataset

   Collaboration, C., Acevedo et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“Supernova data alone now require acceleration ($q_0<0$ in $Λ$CDM) with over $5σ$ confidence.”
   2. Unchecked“Including Planck CMB data, SDSS BAO data, and DES $3\times2$-point data gives $(Ω_{\rm M},w)=(0.321\pm0.007,-0.941\pm0.026)$.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Optimal parameterizations for observational constraints on thawing dark energy

   Shlivko, Steinhardt and Steinhardt · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“We find that a targeted parameterization derived from a Padé expansion of $w$ is the most reliable of these, producing accurate reconstructions of $w(z)$, the expansion history $H(z)$, and cosmological parameters such as $H_0$ and $Ω_m$ for a broad range of…

9. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   OSSOS. XV. Probing the Distant Solar System with Observed Scattering TNOs

   Kaib, Pike, Lawler et al. · The Astronomical Journal · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Although the number of highly inclined scatterers from the Oort Cloud is ~3 times less than observed, Oort cloud enrichment from the Sun's galactic migration or birth cluster could resolve this.”
   2. Unchecked“Meanwhile, a distant, low-eccentricity 5 Earth-mass planet replicates the observed fraction of highly inclined scatterers, but the overall inclination distribution is more excited than observed.”

10. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    The Bombardment History of the Giant Planet Satellites

    Bottke, Vokrouhlický, Nesvorný et al. · The Planetary Science Journal · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“Iapetus, Hyperion, Phoebe, and Oberon have surface ages that are a few Myr to a few tens of Myr younger than when Neptune entered the PKB (i.e., they are 4.52–4.53 Gyr old).”
    2. Unchecked“A much wider range of surface ages are found for the large moons Callisto, Ganymede, Titan, and Europa (4.1, 3.4, 1.8, and 0.18 Gyr old, respectively).”

11. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Is dynamical dark energy necessary? DESI BAO and modified recombination

    Mirpoorian, Jedamzik and Pogosian · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“A global fit to BAO, CMB, and calibrated SN data favors modified recombination over DDE.”

12. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Model-independent cosmological inference after the DESI DR2 data with improved inverse distance ladder

    Ling, Du, Li, Zhang, Wang and Zhang · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“For the DESY5+DESI DR2+CC datasets, we obtain $H_0 = 67.91 \pm 2.33~\mathrm{km~s^{-1}~Mpc^{-1}}$.”
    2. Unchecked“Finally, DESY5+DESI DR2+CC datasets provide nearly decisive evidence favoring the PAge model over the standard $Λ\mathrm{CDM}$ model.”

13. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    The Canada-France Ecliptic Plane Survey - Full Data Release: The orbital structure of the Kuiper belt

    Petit, Kavelaars, Gladman et al. · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“The main classical belt (a=40--47 AU) needs to be modeled with at least three components: the `hot' component with a wide inclination distribution and two `cold' components (stirred and kernel) with much narrower inclination distributions.”
    2. Unchecked“The hot component must have a significantly shallower absolute magnitude (Hg) distribution than the other two components.”

14. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Is curvature-assisted quintessence observationally viable?

    Alestas, Delgado, Ruiz, Akrami, Montero and Nesseris · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“Here, we show, through a dynamical systems analysis and a Bayesian statistical inference of cosmological parameters, that the additional cosmological solutions based on the new fixed point do not render steep-potential, single-field, accelerated expansion ob…

15. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Is There an Earth-like Planet in the Distant Kuiper Belt?

    Lykawka and Itô · The Astronomical Journal · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“We determined that an Earth-like planet (m ~ 1.5-3 Earth masses) located on a distant (semimajor axis a ~ 250-500 au, perihelion q ~ 200 au) and inclined (i ~ 30 deg) orbit can explain three fundamental properties of the distant Kuiper Belt: a prominent popu…
    2. Unchecked“Furthermore, the proposed KBP is compatible with the existence of identified Gyr-stable TNOs in the 2:1, 5:2, 3:1, 4:1, 5:1, and 6:1 Neptunian mean motion resonances.”

16. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Reconstruction of dark energy and late-time cosmic expansion using the Weighted Function Regression method

    González-Fuentes and Gómez-Valent · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“The combined analysis of CMB, BAO, and SNIa data favors an effective DE component that transitions from phantom to quintessence behavior at redshift z cross ∼ 0.4.”
    2. Unchecked“The probability of phantom crossing lies between 96.21% and 99.97%, depending on the SNIa data set used, and hence a simple monotonic evolution of the DE density is excluded at the ∼ 2-4σ CL.”
    3. Unchecked“Moreover, applying Occam's razor, we find no significant evidence for a negative dark energy density below z ∼ 2.5-3.”

17. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Neutrino mass tension or suppressed growth rate of matter perturbations?

    Giarè, Mena, Specogna and Di Valentino · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“We show that allowing $γ$ to vary significantly relaxes the neutrino mass bounds to $\sum m_ν\lesssim 0.13$-$0.2$ eV, removing any tension with terrestrial constraints without altering the inferred value of $Ω_\mathrm{m}$.”
    2. Unchecked“However, this comes at the cost of departing from standard growth predictions: to have $\sum m_ν\gtrsim 0.06$ eV one needs $γ> 0.55$, and we find a consistent preference for $γ> 0.55$ at the level of $\sim 2σ$.”

18. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Constraints on Extended Cosmological Models

    Calabrese, Hill, Jense et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“We find no statistically significant preference for a departure from the baseline $Λ$CDM model.”

19. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Oort cloud Ecology

    Zwart, Torres, Cai and Brown · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Planet migration or chaotic orbital reorganization occurring while the Solar System is still a cluster member is, according to our model, inconsistent with the presence of the Oort cloud.”

20. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Extended Dark Energy analysis using DESI DR2 BAO measurements

    K., R., L. et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“Even with the additional flexibility introduced by non-parametric approaches, such as binning and Gaussian Processes, we find that extending $Λ$CDM to include a two-parameter $w(z)$ is sufficient to capture the trends present in the data.”