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Terminal Instability of the Solar System Triggered by Stochastic Solar Mass Loss

  • Authors: Konstantin Batygin, Jim Fuller, Fred C. Adams

Konstantin Batygin et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1009 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Examples of post-mass-loss orbital architectures. Orbit plots of representative end states (rows: increasing Mej; top-left: the adiabatic control), each annotated with its subsequent fate from 3 Gyr integrations; instability times are measured from white dwarf formation, so t = 0 marks the end of mass loss. Visually pristine systems can carry Gyr-delayed instabilities; at fiducial Mej, crossing and swapped configurations exist already at the moment of white dwarf formation.

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