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Instability-Driven Dynamical Evolution Model of a Primordially 5 Planet Outer Solar System
Konstantin Batygin, Michael E. Brown, Hayden Betts
Over the last decade, evidence has mounted that the solar system's observed state can be favorably reproduced in the context of an instability-driven dynamical evolution model, suc…
Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems in Presence of Highly Inclined Stellar Perturbers
Konstantin Batygin, Alessandro Morbidelli, Kleomenis Tsiganis
The presence of highly eccentric extrasolar planets in binary stellar systems suggests that the Kozai effect has played an important role in shaping their dynamical architectures.…
Onset of Secular Chaos in Planetary Systems: Period Doubling & Strange Attractors
Konstantin Batygin, Alessandro Morbidelli
As a result of resonance overlap, planetary systems can exhibit chaotic motion. Planetary chaos has been studied extensively in the Hamiltonian framework, however, the presence of…
Retention of a Primordial Cold Classical Kuiper Belt in an Instability-Driven Model of Solar System Formation
Konstantin Batygin, Michael E. Brown, Wesley C. Fraser
The cold classical population of the Kuiper belt exhibits a wide variety of unique physical characteristics, which collectively suggest that its dynamical coherence has been mainta…
Resolving the Sin(I) degeneracy in Low-Mass Multi-Planet Systems
Konstantin Batygin, Gregory Laughlin
Long-term orbital evolution of multi-planet systems under tidal dissipation often converges to a stationary state, known as the tidal fixed point. The fixed point is characterized…
Evolution of Ohmically Heated Hot Jupiters
Konstantin Batygin, David J. Stevenson, Peter H. Bodenheimer
We present calculations of thermal evolution of Hot Jupiters with various masses and effective temperatures under Ohmic dissipation. The resulting evolutionary sequences show a cle…