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116 claims from 69 papers, showing 1–20 of 69

1. Physics and Astronomy › Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies

   Correcting for the Effects of Interstellar Extinction

   Fitzpatrick · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific · 1999

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   1. Unchecked“These curves represent the true monochromatic wavelength dependence of extinction and, as such, are suitable for dereddening IR–UV spectrophotometric data of any resolution and can be used to derive extinction relations for any photometry system.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena

   The Origin of the Mass‐Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star‐forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

   Tremonti, Heckman, Kauffmann et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2004

   Using Sloan Digital Sky Survey data for about 53,000 star-forming galaxies at z ~ 0.1, the paper studies the mass-metallicity relation and interprets it as evidence for galactic winds removing metals.

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   1. UncheckedIn about 53,000 nearby star-forming galaxies, stellar mass and gas metallicity correlate tightly, to within ±0.1 dex, across a wide range of masses.“We find a tight (±0.1 dex) correlation between stellar mass and metallicity spanning over 3 orders of magnitude in stellar mass and a factor of 10 in metallicity.”
   2. UncheckedIn about 53,000 star-forming galaxies, metallicity rises steeply with stellar mass at lower masses but flattens above roughly 10^10.5 solar masses.“The relation is relatively steep from 10 8.5 to 10 10.5 M ☉ h , in good accord with known trends between luminosity and metallicity, but flattens above 10 10.5 M ☉ .”
   3. UncheckedMetal loss is strongly anticorrelated with baryonic mass: low-mass dwarf galaxies are about 5 times more metal depleted than L* galaxies at z ~ 0.1.“We show that metal loss is strongly anticorrelated with baryonic mass, with low-mass dwarf galaxies being 5 times more metal depleted than L * galaxies at z ~ 0.1.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   A 2.4% Determination of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant

   Riess, Macri, Hoffmann et al. · OakTrust (Texas A&M University Libraries) · 2016

   Using Hubble Space Telescope observations of Cepheids in the hosts of Type Ia supernovae, the authors cut the uncertainty on the local Hubble constant from 3.3% to 2.4%.

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   1. UncheckedThe paper's best estimate of the local Hubble constant is 73.24 ± 1.74 km/s/Mpc, a 2.4% uncertainty, combining three distance anchors.“Our best estimate of 73.24+/-1.74 km/sec/Mpc combines the anchors NGC4258, MW, and LMC, and includes systematic errors for a final uncertainty of 2.4%.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   The Pantheon+ Analysis: The Full Data Set and Light-curve Release

   Scolnic, Brout, Carr et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“The total number of light curves, which are compiled across 18 different surveys, is a significant increase from the first Pantheon analysis (1048 SNe), particularly at low redshift ( z ).”
   2. Unchecked“Furthermore, unlike in the Pantheon analysis, we include light curves for SNe with z < 0.01 such that SN systematic covariance can be included in a joint measurement of the Hubble constant ( H 0 ) and the dark energy equation-of-state parameter ( w ).”

5. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Secular perturbations of asteroids with high inclination and eccentricity

   Kozai · The Astronomical Journal · 1962

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   1. Unchecked“After short-periodic terms in the Hamiltonian are eliminated, the degree of freedom for the canonical equations of motion can be reduced to 1.”
   2. Unchecked“When the z component of the angular momentum (that is, Delaunay's H) of the asteroid is smaller than a certain limiting value, there are both a stationary solution and solutions corresponding to libration cases.”
   3. Unchecked“The limiting value of H increases as the ratio of the semimajor axes increases, i.e., the corresponding limiting inclination drops from 39.2° to 1.8° as the ratio of the axes increases from 0.0 to 0.95.”

6. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   ACCELERATING UNIVERSES WITH SCALING DARK MATTER

   CHEVALLIER and POLARSKI · International Journal of Modern Physics D · 2001

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   1. Unchecked“Using a simple toy model with a varying equation of state, we show that even a large variation of $w_X$ at small redshifts is very difficult to observe with $d_L(z)$ measurements up to $z\sim 1$.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Origin of the cataclysmic Late Heavy Bombardment period of the terrestrial planets

   Gomes, Levison, Tsiganis and Morbidelli · Nature · 2005

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   1. Unchecked“The asteroid belt was also strongly perturbed, with these objects supplying a significant fraction of the LHB impactors in accordance with recent geochemical evidence.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Origin of the orbital architecture of the giant planets of the Solar System

   Tsiganis, Gomes, Morbidelli and Levison · Nature · 2005

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   1. Unchecked“We show that this resonance crossing could have occurred as the giant planets migrated owing to their interaction with a disk of planetesimals.”
   2. Unchecked“Our model reproduces all the important characteristics of the giant planets' orbits, namely their final semimajor axes, eccentricities and mutual inclinations.”

9. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   The Pantheon+ Analysis: Cosmological Constraints

   Brout, Scolnic, Popovic et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“For a flat ΛCDM model, we find Ω M = 0.334 ± 0.018 from SNe Ia alone.”
   2. Unchecked“For a flat w 0 CDM model, we measure w 0 = −0.90 ± 0.14 from SNe Ia alone, H 0 = 73.5 ± 1.1 km s −1 Mpc −1 when including the Cepheid host distances and covariance (SH0ES), and w 0 = − 0.978 − 0.031 + 0.024 when combining the SN likelihood with Planck constr…
   3. Unchecked“Finally, we find that systematic uncertainties in the use of SNe Ia along the distance ladder comprise less than one-third of the total uncertainty in the measurement of H 0 and cannot explain the present “Hubble tension” between local measurements and early…

10. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and weak lensing

    Abbott, Aguena, Alarcon et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We find consistent cosmological results between the three two-point correlation functions; their combination yields clustering amplitude $S_8=0.776^{+0.017}_{-0.017}$ and matter density $Ω_{\mathrm{m}} = 0.339^{+0.032}_{-0.031}$ in $Λ$CDM, mean with 68% conf…

11. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Chaotic capture of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids in the early Solar System

    Morbidelli, Levison, Tsiganis and Gomes · Nature · 2005

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    1. Unchecked“The capture was possible during a short period of time, just after Jupiter and Saturn crossed their mutual 1:2 resonance, when the dynamics of the Trojan region were completely chaotic.”
    2. Unchecked“Our simulations of this process satisfactorily reproduce the orbital distribution of the Trojans and their total mass.”

12. Physics and Astronomy › Origins and Evolution of Life

    Autocatalytic sets of proteins

    Kauffman · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 1986

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    1. Supported · 71%“Because, as M increases, the ratio of reactions among the possible polypeptides to polypeptides rises rapidly, the existence of such autocatalytic subsets is assured for any fixed probability of catalysis.”

13. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    The Origin of Pluto's Orbit: Implications for the Solar System Beyond Neptune

    Malhotra · The Astronomical Journal · 1995

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    1. Unchecked“Some consequences of this evolution for the present-day dynamical structure of the trans-Neptunian region are: (i) most of the objects in the region beyond Neptune and up to $\sim\!50$ AU exist in very narrow zones located at orbital resonances with Neptune…

14. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    A Disk of Scattered Icy Objects and the Origin of Jupiter-Family Comets

    Duncan and Levison · Science · 1997

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    1. Unchecked“A disk currently containing as few as ∼6 × 10 8 objects could supply all of the observed Jupiter-family comets.”

15. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    A Comprehensive Measurement of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant with 1 km/s/Mpc Uncertainty from the Hubble Space Telescope and the SH0ES Team

    Riess, Yuan, Macri et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Our baseline result from the Cepheid-SN sample is H0=73.04+-1.04 km/s/Mpc, which includes systematics and lies near the median of all analysis variants.”

16. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    A Sedna-like body with a perihelion of 80 astronomical units

    Trujillo and Sheppard · Nature · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“The detection of 2012 VP113 confirms that Sedna is not an isolated object; instead, both bodies may be members of the inner Oort cloud, whose objects could outnumber all other dynamically stable populations in the Solar System.”

17. 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.”

18. 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}$}$.”

19. 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…

20. 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…