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Topic: Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies ×Clear all

8 claims from 3 papers

1. 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…

2. 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.”

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

   Intruder Alert: Breaking Resonant Chains with Planetesimal Flybys

   Li, O’Connor and Rasio · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“We find a planetesimal reservoir of total mass $\gtrsim 0.04 M_{\oplus}$ is required to disrupt MMR chains, depending on the mass distribution and the typical number of flybys executed by each planetesimal.”
   2. Unchecked“We verify that systems disrupted in this way are frequently unstable to close encounters within $\sim 100$Myr of the final flyby.”