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In 2018, Jewitt identified the "The Trojan Color Conundrum", namely that Neptune's Trojan asteroids (NTs) had no ultra-red members, unlike the the nearby Kuiper Belt. Since then, numerous ultra-red NTs have been discovered, seemingly…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-21 Larissa Markwardt , Hsing Wen Lin , David Gerdes , Fred C. Adams

Objects in the Kuiper belt are small and far away thus difficult to study in detail even with the best telescopes available at earth. For much of the early history of the Kuiper belt, studies of the compositions of these objects were…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Michael E. Brown

The non-resonant Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) between the 3:2 and 2:1 Neptunian mean motion resonances can be largely divided between a cold classical belt (CCB) and a hot classical belt (HCB). A notable difference between these two…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Lukas R Stone , Nathan A Kaib

It is an observational fact that bulges of spiral galaxies contain a high fraction of old and metal-rich stars. Following this observational fact, we have investigated colors of 21 bulges hosted by a selected sample of high surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gaspar Galaz , Alvaro Villalobos , Leopoldo Infante , Carlos Donzelli

This work explores the orbital distribution of minor bodies in the outer Solar System emplaced as a result of a Nice model migration from the simulations of Brasser & Morbidelli (2013). This planetary migration scatters a planetesimal disk…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Rosemary E. Pike , Samantha Lawler , Ramon Brasser , Cory J. Shankman , Mike Alexandersen , J. J. Kavelaars

The dust produced in the Kuiper Belt (KB) spreads throughout the Solar System forming a dust disk. We numerically model the orbital evolution of KB dust and estimate its equilibrium spatial distribution and its brightness and spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Amaya Moro-Martin , Renu Malhotra

Large-scale radial transport of solids appears to be a fundamental consequence of protoplanetary disk evolution based on the presence of high temperature minerals in comets and the outer regions of protoplanetary disks around other stars.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fred Ciesla

This paper is the fourth in a series, studying the optical properties of a sample of mid-IR Warm Seyfert galaxies and of a control sample of mid-IR cold galaxies. The present paper is devoted to the analysis of the colour distributions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eleni T. Chatzichristou

Stellar orbits in the Galactic disc evolve from their birth to the current shape through both radial migration and dynamical heating. The history of their secular evolution is imprinted in the current kinematics and age-metallicity…

We re-examine the correlation between the colors and the inclinations of the Classical Kuiper Belt Objects (CKBOs) with an enlarged sample of optical measurements. The correlation is strong (rho=-0.7) and highly significant (>8 sigma) in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nuno Peixinho , Pedro Lacerda , David Jewitt

The cold main classical Kuiper Belt consists of those non-resonant small solar system bodies with low orbital inclinations and orbital semi-major axes between 42.4 and 47.7 au. These objects likely formed \textit{in situ} and the population…

By means of radiative transfer simulation we study the evolution of the far-infrared colours of protoplanetary discs undergoing inside-out dispersal, often referred to as transition discs. We show that a brightening of the mid and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-04 Barbara Ercolano , Christine Koepferl , James Owen , Thomas Robitaille

We describe new, deep MIPS photometry and new high signal-to-noise optical spectroscopy of the 2.5 Myr-old IC 348 Nebula. To probe the properties of the IC 348 disk population, we combine these data with previous optical/infrared photometry…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Thayne Currie , Scott Kenyon

The Kuiper belt is a population of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. The complex orbital structure of the Kuiper belt, including several categories of objects inside and outside of resonances with Neptune, emerged as a result of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-13 David Nesvorny , David Vokrouhlicky

We describe the discovery of a bright, young Kuiper belt-like debris disk around HD 115600, a $\sim$ 1.4--1.5 M$_\mathrm{\odot}$, $\sim$ 15 Myr old member of the Sco-Cen OB Association. Our H-band coronagraphy/integral field spectroscopy…

We have calculated an evolution of protoplanetary disk from an extensive set of initial conditions using a time-dependent model capable of simultaneously keeping track of the global evolution of gas and water-ice. A number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kacper Kornet , Michal Rozyczka , Tomasz F. Stepinski

Recent high angular resolution observations of protoplanetary disks at different wavelengths have revealed several kinds of structures, including multiple bright and dark rings. Embedded planets are the most used explanation for such…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 P. Pinilla , A. Pohl , S. M. Stammler , T. Birnstiel

Evolution of a snow line in an optically-thick protoplanetary disk is investigated with numerical simulations. The ice-condensing region in the disk is obtained by calculating the temperature and the density with the 1+1D approach. The snow…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Akinori Oka , Taishi Nakamoto , Shigeru Ida

Abridged. We have performed an ecliptic survey of the Kuiper belt, with an areal coverage of 8.9 square degrees to a 50% limiting magnitude of r'=24.7, and have detected 88 Kuiper belt objects, roughly half of which received follow-up one…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Wesley C. Fraser , Michael E. Brown , Megan E. Schwamb

Several different classes of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) have been identified based on their optical and near-infrared colors. As part of the Colours of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey, we have obtained $g$, $r$, and $z$ band…