Origin of the cataclysmic Late Heavy Bombardment period of the terrestrial planets

By R. Gomes, Harold Levison, Kleomenis Tsiganis, A. Morbidelli. Nature, 2005

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Variations on Debris Disks: Icy Planet Formation at 30-150 AU for 1-3 M☉ Main-Sequence Stars (2008, background): “Although debris from complete disruption of colliding planetesimals is unobservable in our simulations (see also Kenyon & Bromley 2005), dynamical events similar to those that produced the late heavy bombardment in the solar system probably are visible (e.g., Gomes et al. 2005).”
The habitability of Proxima Centauri b. I. Irradiation, rotation and volatile inventory from formation to the present (2016, background): “Finally, we cannot rule out a late bombardment of water-rich material on Proxima b, although it would have to have been 1–2 orders of magnitude more abundant than the Solar System’s late heavy bombardment to have delivered an ocean’s worth of water (Gomes et al. 2005).”
Linking the collisional history of the main asteroid belt to its dynamical excitation and depletion (2005, methodology): “The value 3.5 Gyr was used as an age limit because the dynamical instability that produced the LHB (Levison et al., 2001; Gomes et al., 2005) would have also scrambled our ability to compute useful proper (a, e, i) elements beyond this epoch (see B05 and Section 2.2.4 for details).”
The primordial excitation and clearing of the asteroid belt—Revisited (2006, methodology): “We have performed new simulations to study and compare two models for the excitation and depletion of the primordial asteroid belt in the context of the Nice Model (Gomes et al., 2005; Tsiganis et al., 2005; Morbidelli et al., 2005), in which Jupiter and Saturn began on nearly circular and co-planar”
FORMATION OF THE TERRESTRIAL PLANETS FROM A NARROW ANNULUS (2009, background): “This has been driven largely by attempts to explain the configuration of the outer planets and their ambient populations (Fernandez & Ip 1981; Thommes et al. 1999; Tsiganis et al. 2005; Gomes et al. 2005).”
A dual-frequency sub-arcsecond study of proto-planetary disks at mm wavelengths: first evidence for radial variations of the dust properties (2011, methodology): “Desch (2007) pointed out that accounting for the early planet migration as predicted by the Nice model (Tsiganis et al. 2005; Gomes et al. 2005), the initial exponent of the surface density for the Solar Nebula would be very close to p = 2.2.”
Water in the Moon's interior: Truth and consequences (2015, background): “The fluxes are one to several orders of magnitude higher than inferred for the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) (Gomes et al., 2005), which in any case comes too late as the LHB impactors arrived ∼500 million yr after Earth formed, at which time the Moon’s lithosphere was well established and convection”
Transience of Hot Dust around Sun-like Stars (2006, background): “…to have been triggered by a dynamical instability in the planetary system resulting from Jupiter and Saturn crossing the 1:2 resonance during their slow migration (inwards for Jupiter, outwards for Saturn) due to angular momentum exchange with the primordial Kuiper belt (Gomes et al. 2005).”
LATE ORBITAL INSTABILITIES IN THE OUTER PLANETS INDUCED BY INTERACTION WITH A SELF-GRAVITATING PLANETESIMAL DISK (2011, methodology): “While not out of the question (see Gomes et al. 2005 for a discussion), this narrow range is aesthetically displeasing.”
The timeline of the lunar bombardment: Revisited (2018, background): “The predominance of cometary impacts during the LHB as already recognized in Gomes et al. (2005) and recently ressessed in Rickman et al. (2017) .”
CAPTURE OF TROJANS BY JUMPING JUPITER (2013, background): “M05 placed chaotic capture in the context of the original Nice model (hereafter ONM; Tsiganis et al. 2005, Gomes et al. 2005; hereafter ONM), where migration of Jupiter and Saturn past their mutual 2:1 MMR is thought to trigger an instability during which Uranus and Neptune are scattered into the…”
Habitable planets around the star Gliese 581 (2007, background): “Through numerical simulations, Gomes et al. (2005) found that 1019 kg of cometary material (∼ 5 × 1018 kg of water) impacted on the Moon during the LHB.”
NEW DEBRIS DISKS AROUND YOUNG, LOW-MASS STARS DISCOVERED WITH THE SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE (2009, neutral): “A second hypothesis is that the “bright disk stars” are undergoing an epoch of en- hanced planetesimal collisions akin to the Late Heavy Bombardment within our own Solar System when it was ∼700 Myr old (Kleine et al. 2002; Chambers 2004; Gomes et al. 2005; Strom et al. 2005).”
Emergence of a Habitable Planet (2007, background): “A good recent example is a series of papers by Gomes et al. (2005) that posit Saturn and Jupiter evolving through the 2 : 1 resonance10.”