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The Origin of Systems of Tightly Packed Inner Planets with Misaligned, Ultra-Short-Period Companions
Juliette Becker, Konstantin Batygin, Daniel C. Fabrycky +4
Ultra-short period planets provide a window into the inner edge of the parameter space occupied by planetary orbits. In one particularly intriguing class of multi-planet systems, t…
The Great Inequality and the Dynamical Disintegration of the Outer Solar System
Jon K. Zink, Konstantin Batygin, Fred C. Adams
Using an ensemble of N-body simulations, this paper considers the fate of the outer gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) after the Sun leaves the main sequence and com…
On the Dynamical Origins of Retrograde Jupiter Trojans and their Connection to High-Inclination TNOs
Tobias Köhne, Konstantin Batygin
Over the course of the last decade, observations of highly-inclined (orbital inclination i > 60°) Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) have posed an important challenge to current models…
Interactions Among Non-Interacting Particles in Planet Formation Simulations
Shirui Peng, Konstantin Batygin
Over the course of the recent decades, -body simulations have become a standard tool for quantifying the gravitational perturbations that ensue in planet-forming disks. Within t…
No evidence for interstellar planetesimals trapped in the Solar System
A. Morbidelli, K. Batygin, R. Brasser +1
In two recent papers published in MNRAS, Namouni and Morais (2018, 2020) claimed evidence for the interstellar origin of some small Solar System bodies, including i) objects in ret…
Tidal Inflation Reconciles Low-Density Sub-Saturns with Core Accretion
Sarah Millholland, Erik Petigura, Konstantin Batygin
While the Solar System contains no planets between the sizes of Uranus and Saturn, our current exoplanet census includes several dozen such planets with well-measured masses and ra…