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Substructure evolution from protoplanetary to debris disks driven by mutually gravitating planetesimals and implications on Kepler resonances and free-floating planets
Yinuo Han, Konstantin Batygin, Fei Dai
Motivated by recent observations suggesting rings found in debris disks are wider than those in protoplanetary disks, we consider a picture in which planetesimals formed in radiall…
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…
A young progenitor for the most common planetary systems in the Galaxy
John H. Livingston, Erik A. Petigura, Trevor J. David +39
The Galaxy's most common known planetary systems have several Earth-to-Neptune-size planets in compact orbits. At small orbital separations, larger planets are less common than the…
Secular Excitation of Polar Neptune Orbits in Pure Disk-Planet Systems
Luke B. Handley, Konstantin Batygin
The stellar spin-orbit angles of Neptune-sized planets present a primordial yet puzzling view of the planetary formation epoch. The striking dichotomy of aligned and perpendicular…
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…
Tidally Heated Sub-Neptunes, Refined Planetary Compositions, and Confirmation of a Third Planet in the TOI-1266 System
Michael Greklek-McKeon, Shreyas Vissapragada, Heather A. Knutson +38
TOI-1266 is a benchmark system of two temperate ( 450 K) sub-Neptune-sized planets orbiting a nearby M dwarf exhibiting a rare inverted architecture with a larger interior plane…
Forming the Trappist-1 system in two steps during the recession of the disc inner edge
Gabriele Pichierri, Alessandro Morbidelli, Konstantin Batygin +1
Trappist-1 hosts 7 planets where period ratios of neighbouring pairs are close to the 8:5, 5:3, 3:2, 3:2, 4:3, and 3:2 ratios in increasing distance from the star. The Laplace angl…
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…
Self-Gravitational Dynamics Within the Inner Oort Cloud
Konstantin Batygin, David Nesvorný
The formation of the Inner Oort Cloud (IOC) - a vast halo of icy bodies residing far beyond Neptune's orbit - is an expected outcome of the solar system's primordial evolution with…
Generation of Low-Inclination, Neptune-Crossing TNOs by Planet Nine
Konstantin Batygin, Alessandro Morbidelli, Michael E. Brown +1
The solar system's distant reaches exhibit a wealth of anomalous dynamical structure, hinting at the presence of a yet-undetected, massive trans-Neptunian body - Planet 9. Previous…
A Pan-STARRS1 Search for Planet Nine
Michael E. Brown, Matthew J. Holman, Konstantin Batygin
We present a search for Planet Nine using the second data release of the Pan-STARRS1survey. We rule out the existence of a Planet Nine with the characteristics of that predicted in…
The Mass, Orbit, and Tidal Evolution of the Quaoar-Weywot System
W. C. Fraser, K. Batygin, M. E. Brown +1
Here we present new adaptive optics observations of the Quaoar-Weywot system. With these new observations we determine an improved system orbit. Due to a 0.39 day alias that exists…