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An Adolescent and Near-Resonant Planetary System Near the End of Photoevaporation
Mu-Tian Wang, Fei Dai, Hui-Gen Liu +28
Young exoplanets provide vital insights into the early dynamical and atmospheric evolution of planetary systems. Many multi-planet systems younger than 100 Myr exhibit mean-motion…
Two-source terrestrial planet formation with a sweeping secular resonance
Max Goldberg, David Nesvorný, Alessandro Morbidelli
The models that most successfully reproduce the orbital architecture of the Solar System terrestrial planets start from a narrow annulus of material that grows into embryos and the…
TOI-4495: A Pair of Aligned, Near-Resonant Sub-Neptunes that Likely Experienced Overstable Migration
Mu-Tian Wang, Fei Dai, Hui-Gen Liu +24
We report the discovery of a sub-Neptune and a Neptune-like planet (, ) orbiting the F-type star TOI-449…
Close-in compact super-Earth systems emerging from resonant chains: slow destabilization by unseen remnants of formation
Max Goldberg, Antoine C. Petit
Planet formation simulations consistently predict compact systems of numerous small planets in chains of mean motion resonances formed by planet-disk interaction, but transiting pl…
Unexpected Near-Resonant and Metastable States of Young Multi-Planet Systems
Zhecheng Hu, Fei Dai, Wei Zhu +4
Recent observations suggest that the incidence of near-resonant planets declines as planetary systems age, making young planetary systems key signposts of early dynamical evolution…
Terrestrial Planet Formation from Two Source Reservoirs
David Nesvorny, Alessandro Morbidelli, William F. Bottke +2
This work describes new dynamical simulations of terrestrial planet formation. The simulations started at the protoplanetary disk stage, when planetesimals formed and accreted into…
Nutation-orbit resonances: The origin of the chaotic rotation of Hyperion and the barrel instability
Max Goldberg, Konstantin Batygin
While numerous planetary and asteroid satellites show evidence for non-trivial rotation states, none are as emblematic as Hyperion, which has long been held as the most striking ex…
The Prevalence of Resonance Among Young, Close-in Planets
Fei Dai, Max Goldberg, Konstantin Batygin +11
Multiple planets undergoing disk migration may be captured into a chain of mean-motion resonances with the innermost planet parked near the disk's inner edge. Subsequent dynamical…
Breaking Giant Chains: Early-Stage Instabilities in Long-Period Giant Planet Systems
Vighnesh Nagpal, Max Goldberg, Konstantin Batygin
Orbital evolution is a critical process that sculpts planetary systems, particularly during their early stages where planet-disk interactions are expected to lead to the formation…
Chaotic tides as a solution to the Hyperion problem
Max Goldberg, Konstantin Batygin
The dynamics of the outer regular satellites of Saturn are driven primarily by the outward migration of Titan, but several independent constraints on Titan's migration are difficul…
A Non-Transiting Coplanar Circumbinary Planet Around Kepler-1660AB
Max Goldberg, Daniel Fabrycky, David V. Martin +3
Over a dozen transiting circumbinary planets have been discovered around eclipsing binaries. Transit detections are biased towards aligned planet and binary orbits, and indeed all…
TOI-1136 is a Young, Coplanar, Aligned Planetary System in a Pristine Resonant Chain
Fei Dai, Kento Masuda, Corey Beard +60
Convergent disk migration has long been suspected to be responsible for forming planetary systems with a chain of mean-motion resonances (MMR). Dynamical evolution over time could…
Dynamics and Origins of the Near-Resonant Kepler Planets
Max Goldberg, Konstantin Batygin
Short-period super-Earths and mini-Neptunes encircle more than of Sun-like stars and are relatively amenable to direct observational characterization. Despite this, envi…
A Criterion for the Stability of Planets in Chains of Resonances
Max Goldberg, Konstantin Batygin, Alessandro Morbidelli
Uncovering the formation process that reproduces the distinct properties of compact super-Earth exoplanet systems is a major goal of planet formation theory. The most successful mo…
Architectures of Compact Super-Earth Systems Shaped by Instabilities
Max Goldberg, Konstantin Batygin
Compact non-resonant systems of sub-Jovian planets are the most common outcome of the planet formation process. Despite exhibiting broad overall diversity, these planets also displ…
A Tidal Origin for a 3-body Resonance in Kepler-221
Max Goldberg, Konstantin Batygin
Over the course of the last two decades, traditional models of planet formation have been repeatedly challenged by the emerging census of extrasolar planets. Key among them is the…
Prospects for Refining Kepler TTV Masses using TESS Observations
Max Goldberg, Sam Hadden, Matthew J. Payne +1
In this paper we investigate systems previously identified to exhibit transit timing variations (TTVs) in Kepler data, with the goal of predicting the expected improvements to the…
Dynamical Evolution of Planetary Systems
Antoine C. Petit, Gabriele Pichierri, Max Goldberg +1
Planetary systems can evolve dynamically even after the planets themselves have fully formed, and there is circumstantial evidence that most planetary systems become unstable after…
Dynamical evolution of planetary systems
Alessandro Morbidelli
The apparent regularity of the motion of the giant planets of our solar system suggested for decades that said planets formed onto orbits similar to the current ones and that nothi…