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Planetesimal-driven Migration

Planetesimal-Driven Migration is a theoretical mechanism of planetary orbital evolution in which gravitational interactions between a planet and a surrounding swarm of planetesimals gradually alter the planet's semi-major axis and eccentricity through cumulative angular momentum exchange.

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2017–2026

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Orbital Evolution of Planets Embedded in a Planetesimal Disk

Joseph M. Hahn, Renu Malhotra · The Astronomical Journal · 1999 · 346 citations · Full text

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Accretional Evolution of a Planetesimal Swarm

S. J. Weidenschilling, D. Spaute, Donald R. Davis et al. · Icarus · 1997 · 346 citations

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Dynamical Evolution of the Early Solar System

David Nesvorný · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2018 · 291 citations · Full text

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Direct Large-Scale N-Body Simulations of Planetesimal Dynamics

D. C. Richardson · Icarus · 2000 · 255 citations · Full text

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Planetary migration in a planetesimal disk: why did Neptune stop at 30 AU?

R. S. Gomes, Alessandro Morbidelli, Harold F. Levison · Icarus · 2004 · 230 citations

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Authors

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  1. AM
    Alessandro Morbidelli

    Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, France

    8 publications · 867 citations

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  2. HF
    Harold F. Levison

    Southwest Research Institute, United States

    8 publications · 845 citations

    8

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  3. RS
    R. S. Gomes

    National Observatory, Brazil

    5 publications · 776 citations

    5

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  4. RB
    Ramon Brasser

    Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

    5 publications · 611 citations

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  5. KT
    K. Tsiganis

    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

    3 publications · 462 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Southwest Research Institute

    San Antonio, United States

    11 h-index

    14 publications

    2K citations

  2. Planetary Science Institute

    Tucson, United States

    7 h-index

    12 publications

    1.5K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    7 h-index

    13 publications

    1.4K citations

  4. Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur

    Nice, France

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    864 citations

  5. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    294 citations

  6. Tokyo Institute of Technology

    Tokyo, Japan

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    331 citations

  7. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    451 citations

  8. Valongo Observatory

    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    546 citations

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  1. Icarus

    10 publications · 1.3K citations

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  2. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 9 publications · 667 citations

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  3. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    6 publications · 621 citations

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  4. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 5 publications · 736 citations

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