The Edges of Planetary Systems: Falling Off the Kuiper Cliff in a Dissipating Gas Disk

arXiv:2606.14704 · astro-ph.EP · Submitted 2026-06-12 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-06-12

Updated: 2026-09-06

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Terminology

• Streaming Instability — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Angular Momentum Transport — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Viscously Stirring Particle Disks into Lorentzians and Gaussians to Infer Dynamical and Collisional Masses (ARKS XIII)
• Formation of Multiple Dynamical Classes in the Kuiper Belt via Disk Dissipation
• Thresholds for Particle Clumping by the Streaming Instability

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