Dynamical evolution of the early solar system

D Nesvorný - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Several properties of the Solar System, including the wide radial spacing of the giant
planets, can be explained if planets radially migrated by exchanging orbital energy and …

Origin and evolution of the cometary reservoirs

L Dones, R Brasser, N Kaib, H Rickman - Space Science Reviews, 2015 - Springer
Comets have three known reservoirs: the roughly spherical Oort Cloud (for long-period
comets), the flattened Kuiper Belt (for ecliptic comets), and, surprisingly, the asteroid belt (for …

The role of early giant-planet instability in terrestrial planet formation

D Nesvorný, FV Roig, R Deienno - The Astronomical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The terrestrial planets are believed to have formed by violent collisions of tens of lunar-to
Mars-size protoplanets at time t< 200 Myr after the protoplanetary gas disk dispersal (t 0) …

Formation of giant planet satellites

K Batygin, A Morbidelli - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent analyses have shown that the concluding stages of giant planet formation are
accompanied by the development of a large-scale meridional flow of gas inside the …

Constraining the giant planets' initial configuration from their evolution: Implications for the timing of the planetary instability

R Deienno, A Morbidelli, RS Gomes… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent works on planetary migration show that the orbital structure of the Kuiper Belt can be
very well reproduced if, before the onset of planetary instability, Neptune underwent a long …

Capture of trans-Neptunian planetesimals in the main asteroid belt

D Vokrouhlický, WF Bottke… - The Astronomical Journal, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The orbital evolution of the giant planets after nebular gas was eliminated from the Solar
System but before the planets reached their final configuration was driven by interactions …

The evolution of asteroids in the jumping-Jupiter migration model

F Roig, D Nesvorný - The Astronomical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, we investigate the evolution of a primordial belt of asteroids, represented by a
large number of massless test particles, under the gravitational effect of migrating Jovian …

Born eccentric: Constraints on Jupiter and Saturn's pre-instability orbits

MS Clement, SN Raymond, NA Kaib, R Deienno… - Icarus, 2021 - Elsevier
An episode of dynamical instability is thought to have sculpted the orbital structure of the
outer solar system. When modeling this instability, a key constraint comes from Jupiter's fifth …

Rethinking the role of the giant planet instability in terrestrial planet formation models

MS Clement, R Deienno, A Izidoro - Icarus, 2023 - Elsevier
Advances in computing power and numerical methodologies over the past several decades
sparked a prolific output of dynamical investigations of the late stages of terrestrial planet …

Mercury's formation within the early instability scenario

MS Clement, JE Chambers, NA Kaib, SN Raymond… - Icarus, 2023 - Elsevier
The inner solar system's modern orbital architecture provides inferences into the epoch of
terrestrial planet formation; a∼ 100 Myr time period of planet growth via collisions with …