4 papers
Distant TNO Inclinations as a Constraint on Primordial Cluster Perturbations in the Presence of Planet Nine
Avni Bansal, Ian Brunton, Konstantin Batygin +2
The Sun was almost certainly born in a stellar cluster, implying some degree of external forcing from neighboring stars during the Solar System's infancy. Published estimates of th…
Suppression of Resonant Overstability at Sharp Migration Gradients
Konstantin Batygin, Ian R. Brunton, Alessandro Morbidelli
Mean-motion resonances are expected to frequently arise at the inner edges of protoplanetary disks, where planet-disk interactions facilitate large-scale orbital convergence. Under…
A constraint on the density of Jupiter's moon Thebe from primordial dynamics
Ian R. Brunton, Konstantin Batygin
Of the 97 known satellites in the Jovian system, the individual masses and densities of each moon have only been determined for six of them: the four Galileans, Amalthea, and Himal…
On the origin and dynamical evolution of Jupiter's moon Amalthea
Ian R. Brunton, Konstantin Batygin
Interior to the orbits of Jupiter's iconic Galilean moons are four small satellites with individual mean radii, km. Multiple lines of evidence suggest that these bod…