Konstantin Batygin @kbatygin Twitter profile

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Konstantin Batygin

2 months

I am beyond thrilled to announce that our band's new album, Starlight, is officially out today. It's been a labor of love and we can't wait for you to hear it. Check it out on your favorite streaming platforms, including: Spotify: 1/3

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

4 years

. @yurydud Юра - это было так весело! Спасибо за все хорошо продуманные вопросы и юмор ;-)

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4 years

Константин Батыгин - астроном, автор гипотезы о Девятой планете, рок-музыкант и много кто еще. Выпуск о том, какой бывает наука в 2019 году Велкоме!

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Konstantin Batygin

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4 years

Я искренне впечатлен всей позитивностью - особенно из России - за последние пару дней, в моей Twitter/Facebook ленте. Замечательно видеть так много положительных мыслей одновременно!

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Konstantin Batygin

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5 years

The Planet Nine Hypothesis -- out now: Accompanying thoughts: , ,

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3 years

new planet nine stuff soon

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4 years

My cat and I wish you a #happynewyear2020 of the rat

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4 years

I always admire people that find innovative solutions to important everyday problems. Like this guy, for example, has figured out how to dress properly for the airport #LAX #bathtime

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Konstantin Batygin

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4 years

@salnkv @a_konyaev Андрей - спасибо за отличное объяснение научного процесса. Я не мог бы сказать это лучше ;-)

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4 years

Sunset over Hermosa Beach tonight. Wow! Compare with the utterly shitty sunset on Mars. #Earth >> #Mars

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

4 years

A ~year ago, my family & I packed up and went to Nice, France for a few months with two simple goals: (1) drink a ton of Rose, (2) work with Morby to figure out how the satellites of Jupiter & Saturn formed. Final product published in ApJ today.

A New Theory for the Formation of Jupiter's Moons

Though they are all of similar sizes—about one fourth of Earth's radius—the four major moons of Jupiter are diverse: Io is violently volcanic, Europa is encr...

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Konstantin Batygin

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23 days

New P9 evidence comes from a population of dynamically unstable long-period TNOs that cross Neptune's orbit. Full paper here: and a brief thread below.

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

2 years

Whenever I have the chance, I like to drink beer with my dad and talk about protons (he knows a lot about protons). During the pandemic, we did this more than a couple of times, and the results are now published in Physics of Plasmas: Thread below.

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

4 years

Infinitely proud of my 2nd PhD student @Caltech Dr. Elizabeth Bailey, who defended her thesis today! Elizabeth — it was so awesome working with you these past 6 years. Gonna dearly miss our discussions. Now go kick as at @ucsc as a @HSFdn 51peg fellow!

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

6 years

This morning, my daughter and I made a quadruple pendulum. Check out #chaos (unpredictable circulation-libration switching) in slow-mo!

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4 years

Year after year, I realize that the only way to truly understand something is to teach a class about it. Hopefully, the students will also get something out of lectures. #academiclife

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

4 years

Our new paper on the solar system's infancy is out: Based on the dynamical structure of the cold classical Kuiper belt, we conclude that the closest approach of a passing star within the solar system’s birth cluster must have been greater than ~240 AU!

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

4 years

Originally, we had two fish in the aquarium. But last week, one fish ate the other fish. Its self-imposed #quarantine , however, was short-lived: last night our cat - shown below - ate the remaining (cannibalistic) fish. Now I'm keeping a close eye on our dog...

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

4 years

Training at the Fight Academy today was remarkably simple from a theoretical point of view: a full ~hour of continuous sparring. It was awesome — My ability to think (or stand for that matter) has been comprised for the rest of the day. #kickboxing #muaythai

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

4 years

When writing a manuscript, it helps to bounce ideas off your colleagues that are experts in the field #AcademicChatter

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

8 months

🪐Planet 9's been back in the news, so let's dive back in for a bit. Since we proposed the P9 model in '16, numerous alternative theories have emerged. However, the recent one by Lykawka & Ito is unusual in that they propose to replace the planet with… a planet. Thread below.

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

3 years

driving back from conf. spent night in an airbnb. in the vertical direction it was a perfect fit

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

4 years

My 7 y.o. daughter and I grew a quartz crystal in a glass. She now officially knows more about crystallography than me (which is not hard to do). All that’s left is to take it to Venice beach and charge it in the moonlight! ;)

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#backstage our work is never done...

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3 years

(1/8) New P9 stuff: Injection of Inner Oort Cloud Objects Into the Distant Kuiper Belt by Planet Nine, published in ApJL, on #arxiv tonight: Writeup: Thread below…

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

3 years

This is awe-inspiring. A couple giant planets, carving a great gap in the disk, one of them encircled by a mini-disk of its own, hard at work making its satellites. Sort of like looking at the solar system ~4.5 billion years of ago. We truly live in an amazing time...

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@ESO

3 years

1/ Astronomers made the first clear detection of a moon-forming disc around an exoplanet, using @ALMAObs , in which ESO is a partner. 🔗 Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Benisty et al.

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

6 years

My twitter feed over the last 3 days reminded me of something @KPHickerson once told me. He said: “ #Pluto is a lot like #Russia . Similar in surface area, cold AF, and exerts an unjustifiably strong influence on social media.”

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Konstantin Batygin

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4 years

Although ʻOumuamua is well on its way out of the solar system, basic questions regarding its nature linger. In a new #arXiv post, Seligman&Laughlin argue something wild: that it is a Hydrogen iceberg. Remarkably, this explanation seems to fit the data well

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

3 years

In an attempt to retain/regain some sanity, I've been trying to stay away from social media over the last ~month. The upshot is that I've gotten notably better at making Negronis and slightly better at guitar (at least it seems that way to me when I drink and play simultaneously)

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

4 years

Got my new custom #planetnine PepperBoards longboard set up, just in time for #socialdistancing

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Konstantin Batygin

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5 years

Forget front page of NYT! We've made the front page of #wikipedia ! #achievementunlocked #PlanetNine Beyond just being super cool, it's a very well written and detailed article. Huge kudos to the editors! @plutokiller @Caltech

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

4 years

“I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.” —Bagheera #dogsoftwitter

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Konstantin Batygin

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3 years

debugging on a Sunday night...

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

3 months

Thrilled to share that after 5 incredible years, my grad student Max Goldberg has defended his PhD thesis @Caltech . Excited for his next chapter as a postdoc at @ObsCoteAzur , where he will continue to make amazing discoveries. The journey continues, and the best is yet to come!

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

5 years

Three years (and 2 fortnights) ago @plutokiller and I published our first #PlanetNine paper. But science is an iterative process, and since then we've made more progress. The result: an updated P9 Hypothesis (w/ Adams, Becker): . Highlights in thread below.

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

6 years

The answer to why giant planets rotate significantly below breakup is summarized in this beautiful sketch (Fig. 2 of the paper, courtesy of the one and only @jtuttlekeane ). The full story will be up on the arXiv tonight.

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

3 years

Today, for the first time 19 months, I gave a talk. At a conference. In person! It was awesome.

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

1 year

doing our vocal warmups for the gig tomorrow

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

3 years

After a year of not playing together, we sound twice as shitty as before and thrice as loud. Refreshing!

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

6 years

An #EXOPLANET result I’m real proud of: my graduate student Elizabeth Bailey and I realized that if Hot Jupiters form in situ, the inner boundary of the population in a-m space should follow a power-law with index -2/7 (black line on plot). More details:

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

4 years

Found a fake account impersonating me on instagram. OMG! #achievementunlocked . Нашел поддельный аккаунт, выдававший себя за меня в Instagram. #достижениеразблокировано. But if you want to follow the real me on #Instagram , the account is:

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

6 years

A key prediction of the #Planet9 hypothesis is the existence of long-period, high-inclination KBOs. The first bona fide detection of such an object was announced today by @theDESurvey Mega-proud of my former undergrad students Juliette Becker & Tali Khain!

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@kbatygin

4 years

In terms of dress code, this was our best show. Photo by @miquai

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4 years

#LA #Detroit

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Konstantin Batygin

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3 years

Ok, this is for real y'all: I'm totally stoked -- over the next few months, I will be collaborating with @LandonRoss to create a series of blackboard hieroglyphs that will collectively tell the story of planet formation. Online lectures & a review article will accompany.

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

4 years

Back in LA from the @Genius100Vision summit in #Mexico . It was awesome, and I got to have a fun discussion with Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski about planets, chaos, and the origins of the laws of physics.

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

5 years

That's right: the size of the shadow is about ~2.5 x the event horizon (40 billion km) which is about 670 au -- comparable to P9's aphelion distance.

Justin Bartel

@cephalopernicus

5 years

If I've done my math right, and @kbatygin and @plutokiller are right about #Planet9 , then the size of Planet Nine's orbit is somewhat similar in size to the photon ring around the @ehtelescope #EHTBlackHole .

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Konstantin Batygin

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3 years

There's a ton of icy debris living beyond Neptune. So, it’s important to remember that the Kuiper belt is not one thing: it is composed of many sub-groups of objects. The most prominent population of trans-Neptunian objects (in terms of mass and radius) is the scattered disk.

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

4 years

I’m spending the day in gorgeous Ithaca NY. Giving the Planet Nine talk at @Cornell Astro in 45 mins. If you’re in the area, come say hi!

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

3 years

Spent the week writing a paper about the early solar system with Marvin Morgan @Marv0828 and Darryl Seligman IN PERSON. In Philadelphia. As in, NOT over zoom. It was awesome. Paper might even be right!

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

3 years

It's hard to believe (in part because @plutokiller and my combined mental age is 3), but we're coming up on a 5-year Planet 9 anniversary. So instead of drinking alone, join us this Friday with @christianready , as we discuss the search, etc.

Planet 9 with Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin

Astronomers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin will join us on January 15 to tell us why they're convinced there's a Planet 9 lurking in the outer solar syste...

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

4 years

It is a great pleasure to welcome Mr. John Zink (formerly of filmspeed) into the band! His beats are righteous, and his drink preferences are fully compatible with the rest of the group. Good to have you with us bro

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

7 years

On set w/ @RobertPicardo at the Planetary Society @exploreplanets . Look out for our #PlanetNine themed episode coming out this Halloween 👻

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

5 years

Yo #Planet9 fans, @novapbs has created a really neat series of short vids, documenting the history, evidence & search for #P9 . There's even footage from our Dec'18 observing run featuring yours truly, @plutokiller & @astrosumo . Check it out here: @Caltech

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

3 years

I routinely hear people say "easier said than done," but writing an explanation of what I did in the paper draft is taking way longer than the calculation itself. Research is sometimes easier done than said. #AcademicChatter

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@kbatygin

5 years

Gave a #PlanetNine talk at Mt. Wilson Observatory last night, and it was so much fun! Got to sit in Einstein’s chair, look at neat astro stuff from a century ago, and they even let me drive the telescope (I didn’t break it, which is A+ for a theorist)

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Konstantin Batygin

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6 years

Looks like the "Pluto is a planet" thing is coming around again... So for fun, I integrated the solar system forward for 10 million years with (red) and without (blue) Pluto's gravity. Strikingly, Pluto's own orbit is keenly unaware of its own gravitational pull...

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5 years

Uranus and Neptune appear to be the closest solar system analogues to the standard outcome of planet formation in the galaxy. If we want to better understand the physics of planet conglomeration, this is the way forward.

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The window to launch a mission to the outer planets is closing. In order to steal some of Jupiter’s massive gravitational force to use as a slingshot, we'd need a mission ready by the 2030s.

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Konstantin Batygin

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6 years

When I was an undergrad, I was really confused as to where Schrodinger's equation comes from. Now I kinda get it...

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Konstantin Batygin

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3 years

Ok... the P9-is-not-real-because-of-observational-bias story has made another comeback, this time as a re-analysis. Interesting stuff, but inconclusive. While no longer staying up at night to look for the damn thing has undeniable appeal, we press on. Why? thread below

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A few news articles have popped up about Planet Nine over the last few days. To set the record straight: no P9 is not hiding, it’s not invisible, and it’s not going to destroy the Earth. It’s dim, but within our grasp - the beauty of the P9 theory is that it’s directly testable.

Fox News

@FoxNews

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Planet Nine may exist, but it might be hiding behind Neptune

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5 years

A really clever approach to finding Planet Nine (and a bunch of other cool stuff) using occultations! @greg_laughlin_

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@kbatygin

6 years

Tonight on the arxiv: discovery of a new long-period KBO adds to the growing ledger of Kuiper Belt Objects that show #PlanetNine ’s influence. Orbit is exactly where the P9 theoretical model says it should be!

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@kbatygin

4 years

One of the best things about my job is that I get to work with brilliant students and postdocs at @Caltech !

Juliette Becker

@jcbastro

4 years

Spent an awesome Thursday evening lab meeting / science party at the Hayman lounge with (most of) the Batygin lab group discussing solar system and exoplanet mysteries. Hearing about everyone's progress always makes me SO excited about the work being done in our group!

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Konstantin Batygin

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4 years

(1/5) well..the recurring planet-nine-is-not-real-because-of-observational-bias narrative has made its comeback yet again (+new KBOs that actually also cluster...). Obs bias is important, and @plutokiller & I looked into this back in '18. And the probability that this is a fluke:

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4 years

One of my friends once told me: "in celestial mechanics, there are no new results -- there are only authors unfamiliar with the literature." An example of this is up on arXiv tonight. Indeed, might be time to rename Kozai-Lidov cycles to von Zeipel cycles.

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4 years

I've always dreamt of visiting Rio de Janeiro. In 90mins, my dreams will virtually come true. Tune in for a bit of P9 and lots of satellites!

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4 years

While in Mexico, jammed with a local band -- forgot what they are called, but super nice guys

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5 years

Ever since my undergrad days at @ucsc , Urbain Le Verrier (who mathematically discovered Neptune) was a huge inspiration to me. Last week I got to visit both his grave and the Paris Observatory where he spent his career. It was kinda awesome.

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Konstantin Batygin

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1 year

new live dates + new albums in '23 -- details soon

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

3 years

I had the honor of recording the #Planet9 composition - written by Maestro @EduardoMarturet - together w/ the amazing @MiamiSymphony . Yesterday, @Astro_Soichi blasted it at the @Space_Station . Thank you @Genius100Vision for making this a reality! check it:

Eduardo Marturet - Planet 9

Celebrating Einstein’s Birthday, inaugurating Astronaut Soichi Noguchi as G100 VisionaryPLANET 9 OP. 3 by EDUARDO MARTURETInspired by Konstantin, Helen, Rami...

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4 years

Jupiter has many Trojan asteroids, but one of them is retrograde. In a new paper led by Tobias Kohne, we argue that this body could be a temporarily captured high-inclination Centaur. Interestingly, high-inc Centaurs are readily created in Planet 9 sims..

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Had the pleasure of catching up with my former student Noah Marx yesterday. Back in 2018, @ChrisCrossSci , Noah, and I wrote a cool paper about the threshold of dynamical instabilities that are triggered by fading quadrupole fields of young stars:

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6 years

Oh, no big deal. Just me next to bongos that belonged to my #physics #hero @ProfFeynman . So star-struck! Pic-cred: @quantum_spiros @Caltech

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Konstantin Batygin

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6 years

As suggested by @ColdDimSum , here is Mercury's orbital evolution treated self-consistently (red) as opposed to in the test particle limit (blue). Totally different. Unlike the case of Pluto, removing Mercury's mass alters the secular architecture of the inner solar system.

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5 years

Today at the grocery store I bumped into none other than my former postdoc, Kat Deck. Back in ‘15, we wrote a really fun paper on resonant over-stability (). She is one of the most brilliant dynamicists I’ve ever had the pleasure of collaborating with!

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4 years

Even "semi-active" particles whose direct gravitational coupling is turned off, can still interact with one-another within standard N-body simulations by perturbing the central body. For details, check out our new paper, led by Shirui Peng: @Caltech

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7 years

Between observing runs we hiked up to lake Waiau at 13000ft. @plutokiller got so excited his head fell off. Back on now. P9 search continues

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after a run with Morby at Nice Obs., where the temperature was ~10000000 degrees and humidity ~10000000%

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5 years

Exactly a year ago, I started a set of ~200 new #P9 simulations. By June, a couple hundred turned into a couple thousand, and it was clear that a notable change in P9 mass/orbit was in order. A new paper with F. Adams, @plutokiller , J. Becker on Arxiv by end of Jan. Stay tuned!

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Our new paper on the universality in the inner edges of planetary systems (ApJ Letters) is up on the Arxiv: . Thread on the relevant physics below. 🧵

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Back in 2011 me, @plutokiller & @wtfastro wrote a paper suggesting that the cold classical Kuiper belt is the only truly primordial population of TNOs. If correct, tonight’s #UltimaFlyby by @NewHorizons2015 will image one of the most pristine bodies in the solar system...

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4 years

#soundcheck complete! @Caltech

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4 years

When you can’t go inside the studio, the obvious solution is to take the studio outside #bandlife #recordingsessions #covid19

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1 year

Every time we play, our noises sound more and more like music. Stoked for the gig on the 24th!

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5 years

Fight Academy in Pasadena is the shit. Training kicked my ass yesterday (literally) and now parts of my body hurt that I didn't know existed. Can't wait to go back!

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2 years

A 10^3-mile road trip is only fun if you've got good company

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6 years

From the orbits of distant KBOs, it is possible to predict the orbit and mass of #PlanetNine . But it’s impossible to know where P9 is along its orbit (which is why the search is so hard). My grad student Elizabeth Bailey (+ @plutokiller & me) explain here:

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

5 years

I’m spending the last of 2018 with my dad, turning gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

2 years

There are pros and cons, but in-person is more fun

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6 years

The short answer is 'yes'

Is Planet Nine Even Real?

A year and a half after it was proposed, astronomers are still debating whether the giant mystery planet actually exists.

www.theatlantic.com

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

5 years

I spent the last 10 weeks at Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur in Nice FR, working on a problem I knew nothing about. And it was awesome. So much fun to fantasize about planets in excellent company (Morby+), powered by great Rosé. Paper coming soon. #travel #blessed #academiclife

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

2 years

Taught the first lecture of my planet formation class today @Caltech . Every year I begin the class with one of my favorite quotes: “Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.” -- Giordano Bruno (he died by being burned at the stake)

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Preliminary calculations - done. The new Sheppard et al. object affects the inferred #PlanetNine parameters more than I initially anticipated. Not a big change by any account, but noticeable. Just in time for P9 observing season!

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@kbatygin

7 years

Filmed today for "How the Universe Works" today. Realized halfway through I didn't fully understand how it works... Back to research then

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

4 years

The unraveling of the sol system has fascinated mathematicians for centuries. Newton himself believed the Jupiter-Saturn "great inequality" (5:2 near-resonance) held the key to the sol system's demise. In a new paper led by @jonKzink , we show he was right:

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

5 years

It was indeed somewhat of a communication breakdown

Alex Teachey 齊孝嵐 🇹🇼

@alexteachey

5 years

At The Yale Origin of Earth symposium @kbatygin referenced Stairway to Heaven to a room of scientists who clearly never listened to Zeppelin

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

5 years

Powered by collective family #jetlag , we took our kids to the playground early in the am. I fell asleep on the bench. Some woman came up to my wife and asked if she should call the cops because “that weird creep with no kids keeps opening his eyes and looking at your children”

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

8 years

In response to the astonishing number of emails and phone calls I got today about the impending doom of #PlanetNine

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

6 years

Infinitely proud of my first PhD student @Caltech , Dr. @ChrisCrossSci ! Chris - it’s been so much fun science-ing and making music together with you these past 5 years. gonna miss you man. Now go kick ass @Yale !!! #Caltech2018

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Konstantin Batygin

@kbatygin

5 years

Hung out last night with former NASA director Dan Goldin and big wave surfing legend @chris_bertish . It was awesome — thanks @Genius100Vision for bringing us together!

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