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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…