Over the course of the past two decades, observational surveys have unveiled the intricate
orbital structure of the Kuiper Belt, a field of icy bodies orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune. In …

Much of the modern Kuiper belt is thought to be the result of Neptune's migration through a
primordial belt of planetesimals, possibly interrupted by an instability amongst the giant …

We present numerical simulations of giant planet migration in our solar system and examine
how the speed of planetary migration affects inclinations in the resulting population of small …

Planet–planetesimal interactions cause a planet to migrate, manifesting as a random walk in
semimajor axis. In models for Neptune's migration involving a gravitational upheaval, this …

Axisymmetric disks of eccentric Kepler orbits are vulnerable to an instability that causes
orbits to exponentially grow in inclination, decrease in eccentricity, and cluster in their angle …

Aims. We study the dynamical evolution of a system consisting of the giant planets and a
massive planetesimal disk over the age of the Solar System. The main question addressed …

Context. In the oligarchic growth model, protoplanets develop in the final stage of planet
formation via collisions between planetesimals and planetary embryos. The majority of …

Axisymmetric disks of eccentric Kepler orbits are susceptible to the inclination instability, an
out-of-plane buckling characterized by exponentially growing inclinations, decreasing …