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Rossby Wave Instability and Long-Term Evolution of Dead Zones in Protoplanetary Discs
Ryan Miranda, Dong Lai, Heloise Meheut
The physical mechanism of angular momentum transport in poorly ionized regions of protoplanetary discs, the dead zones (DZs), is not understood. The presence of a DZ naturally lead…
New constraints on Saturn's interior from Cassini astrometric data
Valéry Lainey, Robert A. Jacobson, Radwan Tajeddine +15
Using astrometric observations spanning more than a century and including a large set of Cassini data, we determine Saturn's tidal parameters through their current effects on the o…
Titan Science with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Conor A. Nixon, Richard K. Achterberg, Mate Adamkovics +12
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scheduled for launch in 2018, is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) but with a significantly larger aperture (6.5 m) and advan…
The Pluto system: Initial results from its exploration by New Horizons
S. A. Stern, F. Bagenal, K. Ennico +148
The Pluto system was recently explored by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, making closest approach on 14 July 2015. Pluto's surface displays diverse landforms, terrain ages, albedos…
The fate of ethane in Titan's hydrocarbon lakes and seas
Olivier Mousis, Jonathan I. Lunine, Alexander G. Hayes +1
Ethane is expected to be the dominant photochemical product on Titan's surface and, in the absence of a process that sequesters it from exposed surface reservoirs, a major constitu…
The Transit Transmission Spectrum of a Cold Gas Giant Planet
Paul A. Dalba, Philip S. Muirhead, Jonathan J. Fortney +3
We use solar occultations observed by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer aboard the Cassini Spacecraft to extract the 1 to 5 micron transmission spectrum of Saturn, as if…
Direct imaging of an asymmetric debris disk in the HD 106906 planetary system
Paul G. Kalas, Abhijith Rajan, Jason J. Wang +53
We present the first scattered light detections of the HD 106906 debris disk using Gemini/GPI in the infrared and HST/ACS in the optical. HD 106906 is a 13 Myr old F5V star in the…
Formation and Stellar Spin-Orbit Misalignment of Hot Jupiters from Lidov-Kozai Oscillations in Stellar Binaries
Kassandra R. Anderson, Natalia I. Storch, Dong Lai
Observed hot Jupiter (HJ) systems exhibit a wide range of stellar spin-orbit misalignment angles. The origin of these HJs remains unclear. This paper investigates the inward migrat…
How Janus' Orbital Swap Affects the Edge of Saturn's A Ring?
Maryame El Moutamid, Philip D. Nicholson, Richard G. French +6
We present a study of the behavior of Saturn's A ring outer edge, using images and occultation data obtained by the Cassini spacecraft over a period of 8 years from 2006 to 2014. M…
Meridional variation in tropospheric methane on Titan observed with AO spectroscopy at Keck and VLT
Máté Ádámkovics, Jonathan L. Mitchell, Alexander G. Hayes +10
The spatial distribution of the tropospheric methane on Titan was measured using near-infrared spectroscopy. Ground-based observations at 1.5 (H-band) were performed duri…
Enceladus's measured physical libration requires a global subsurface ocean
P. C. Thomas, R. Tajeddine, M. S. Tiscareno +5
Several planetary satellites apparently have subsurface seas that are of great interest for, among other reasons, their possible habitability. The geologically diverse Saturnian sa…
The effects of a magnetic field on planetary migration in laminar and turbulent discs
M. L. Comins, M. M. Romanova, A. V. Koldoba +2
We investigate the migration of low-mass planets ( and ) in accretion discs threaded with a magnetic field using 2D MHD code in polar coordinates. We o…
Nebular dead zone effects on the D/H ratio in chondrites and comets
Mohamad Ali-Dib, Rebecca G. Martin, Jean-Marc Petit +3
Comets and chondrites show non-monotonic behaviour of their Deuterium to Hydrogen (D/H) ratio as a function of their formation location from the Sun. This is difficult to explain w…
Discovery and spectroscopy of the young Jovian planet 51 Eri b with the Gemini Planet Imager
B. Macintosh, J. R. Graham, T. Barman +85
Directly detecting thermal emission from young extrasolar planets allows measurement of their atmospheric composition and luminosity, which is influenced by their formation mechani…
Observational Signatures of Self-Destructive Civilisations
Adam Stevens, Duncan Forgan, Jack O'Malley-James
We address the possibility that intelligent civilisations that destroy themselves could present signatures observable by humanity. Placing limits on the number of self-destroyed ci…
Testing the Early Mars H2-CO2 Greenhouse Hypothesis with a 1-D Photochemical Model
Natasha Batalha, Shawn D. Domagal-Goldman, Ramses Ramirez +1
A recent study by Ramirez et al. (2014) demonstrated that an atmosphere with 1.3-4 bar of CO2 and H2O, in addition to 5-20% H2, could have raised the mean annual and global surface…
Survival of Planets Around Shrinking Stellar Binaries
Diego J. Muñoz, Dong Lai
The discovery of transiting circumbinary planets by the Kepler mission suggests that planets can form efficiently around binary stars. None of the stellar binaries currently known…
Effect of UV Radiation on the Spectral Fingerprints of Earth-like Planets Orbiting M dwarfs
S. Rugheimer, L. Kaltenegger, A. Segura +2
We model the atmospheres and spectra of Earth-like planets orbiting the entire grid of M dwarfs for active and inactive stellar models with = 2300K to = 3800K a…
UV Surface Environment of Earth-like Planets Orbiting FGKM Stars Through Geological Evolution
S. Rugheimer, A. Segura, L. Kaltenegger +1
The UV environment of a host star affects the photochemistry in the atmosphere, and ultimately the surface UV environment for terrestrial planets and therefore the conditions for t…
How Sedna and family were captured in a close encounter with a solar sibling
Lucie Jilkova, Simon Portegies Zwart, Tjibaria Pijloo +1
The discovery of 2012VP113 initiated the debate on the origin of the Sedna family of planetesimals in orbit around the Sun. Sednitos roam the outer regions of the Solar System betw…
Stability of rings around a triaxial primary
Antoine Lehébel, Matthew S. Tiscareno
Generally, the oblateness of a planet or moon is what causes rings to settle into its equatorial plane. However, the recent suggestion that a ring system might exist (or have exist…
Tidal Truncation of Inclined Circumstellar and Circumbinary Discs in Young Stellar Binaries
Ryan Miranda, Dong Lai
Recent observations have shown that circumstellar and circumbinary discs in young stellar binaries are often misaligned with respect to the binary orbital plane. We analyze the tid…
A nearby M star with three transiting super-Earths discovered by K2
Ian J. M. Crossfield, Erik Petigura, Joshua Schlieder +24
Small, cool planets represent the typical end-products of planetary formation. Studying the archi- tectures of these systems, measuring planet masses and radii, and observing these…
Analytical Model of Tidal Distortion and Dissipation for a Giant Planet with a Viscoelastic Core
Natalia I. Storch, Dong Lai
We present analytical expressions for the tidal Love numbers of a giant planet with a solid core and a fluid envelope. We model the core as a uniform, incompressible, elastic solid…