Kuiper Belt Objects: Relics from the Accretion Disk of the Sun

By J. Luu, D. Jewitt. 2002

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• High-Resolution Submillimeter Constraints on Circumstellar Disk Structure (2006, background): “…Udry et al. 2007) and their host stars (Santos et al. 2001; Fischer &Valenti 2005), as well as via the internal structure and composition of the giant planets (Lunine et al. 2004; Guillot 2005) and various aspects of the populations of smaller bodies (e.g., Luu & Jewitt 2002) in the solar system.”
• PROTOPLANETARY DISK STRUCTURES IN OPHIUCHUS (2009, background): “The solar system has a relatively sharp edge at ∼40 AU (Luu & Jewitt 2002), while the sample disks have substantial mass reservoirs on larger scales.”
• Collisional Cascades in Planetesimal Disks. II. Embedded Planets (2003, background): “However, older stars often have a ‘debris disk’ of dusty material with a size comparable to the radius of the Kuiper Belt of our solar system (Habing et al. 2001; Song et al. 2000; Spangler et al. 2001; Luu & Jewitt 2002).”
• The Birth Environment of the Solar System (2010, methodology): “For example, in our Solar System the observed Kuiper Belt has a mass of ∼ 0.08 ME (Luu & Jewitt 2002); if we augment this mass by a factor of 10 for mass loss, and another factor of 100 to add back in the gasecous component, the inferred surface density is smaller than that of the MMSN (at 30 AU)…”
• Dust flow in gas disks in the presence of embedded planets (2006, background): “The mechanism for structuring the dust disk is therefore intrinsically different from ordinary resonance capture, which is the usual explanation for the existence of the Plutinos in the Kuiper belt (Luu & Jewitt 2002).”
• The Size Distribution of Kuiper Belt Objects (2004, background): “From Figures 3 and 4, resonant KBOs and scattered KBOs with large e and i should have a larger rb than classical KBOs with small e but large i (Luu & Jewitt 2002).”
• The planet nine hypothesis (2019, background): “For more comprehensive discussion of specific attributes of the trans-Neptunian solar system, we direct the reader to reviews of the observational characteristics of the Kuiper belt (Luu and Jewitt 2002; Gladman et al. 2008), planet formation (Armitage, 2010), early dynamical evolution (Nesvorný, 20”
• Planets opening dust gaps in gas disks (2004, background): “Interestingly, it has been found that the Kuiper Belt Objects also tend to accumulate at the the 3:2 and 2:1 mean motion resonances with Neptune (Luu & Jewitt 2002).”
• Organic molecules in protoplanetary disks around T Tauri and Herbig Ae stars (2004, background): “The chemical composition of Kuiper Belt Objects is not well known (see Jewitt & Luu 2000), although observations show that comet nuclei and Kuiper Belt Objects have different surface compositions (Luu & Jewitt 2002; Jewitt 2002).”