2 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
The Edges of Planetary Systems: Falling Off the Kuiper Cliff in a Dissipating Gas Disk
Rixin Li, Eugene Chiang
Probably the last planetesimals to have formed from dust in the solar nebula are Cold Classical Kuiper belt objects (CCKBOs). To the extent that they are isolated and unchanged sin…
astro-ph.EP2026
Two-stage disruption of resonant chains
Nick Choksi, Yoram Lithwick, Eugene Chiang +1
TESS is enabling the discovery of transiting planets around young stars. These observations suggest that most close-in planets were born in chains of mean-motion resonances that br…