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A Spectroscopically Unique Main Belt Asteroid: 10537 (1991 RY16)
Nicholas A. Moskovitz, Samuel Lawrence, Robert Jedicke +4
We present visible and near-infrared reflectance spectra and interpreted surface mineralogy for asteroid 10537 (1991 RY16). The spectrum of this object is without precedent amongst…
A Region Void of Irregular Satellites Around Jupiter
N. Haghighipour, D. Jewitt
An interesting feature of the giant planets of our solar system is the existence of regions around these objects where no irregular satellites are observed. Surveys have shown that…
Habitable Planet Formation in Extreme Planetary Systems: Systems with Multiple Stars and/or Multiple Planets
Nader Haghighipour
Understanding the formation and dynamical evolution of habitable planets in extrasolar planetary systems is a challenging task. In this respect, systems with multiple giant planets…
Extreme Habitability: Formation of Habitable Planets in Systems with Close-in Giant Planets and/or Stellar Companions
Nader Haghighipour
With more than 260 extrasolar planetary systems discovered to-date, the search for habitable planets has found new grounds. Unlike our solar system, the stars of many of these plan…
New Worlds on the Horizon: Earth-Sized Planets Close to Other Stars
Eric Gaidos, Nader Haghighipour, Eric Agol +3
The search for habitable planets like Earth around other stars fulfils an ancient imperative to understand our origins and place in the cosmos. The past decade has seen the discove…
Habitability of Planets in Binaries
Nader Haghighipour
A survey of currently known extrasolar planets indicates that close to 20% of their hosting stars are members of binary systems. While the majority of these binaries are wide (i.e.…
Terrestrial and Habitable Planet Formation in Binary and Multi-star Systems
Nader Haghighipour, Steinn Sigurdsson, Jack Lissauer +1
One of the most surprising discoveries of extrasolar planets is the detection of planets in moderately close binary star systems. The Jovian-type planets in the two binaries of Gam…
Irregular Satellites of the Planets: Products of Capture in the Early Solar System
David Jewitt, Nader Haghighipour
All four giant planets in the Solar system possess irregular satellites, characterized by large, highly eccentric and/or inclined orbits that are distinct from the nearly circular,…
Habitable Planet Formation in Binary-Planetary Systems
Nader Haghighipour, Sean N. Raymond
Recent radial velocity observations have indicated that Jovian-type planets can exist in moderately close binary star systems. Numerical simulations of the dynamical stability of t…
Dynamical Stability and Habitability of Gamma Cephei Binary-Planetary System
Nader Haghighipour
It has been suggested that the long-lived residual radial velocity variations observed in the precision radial velocity measurements of the primary of Gamma Cephei (HR8974, HD22240…
On the Growth of Dust Particles in a Non-Uniform Solar Nebula
Nader Haghighipour
A summary of the results of a numerical study of the growth of solid particles in the vicinity of an azimuthally symmetric density enhancement of a protostellar disk are presented.…
On the Stability of Test Particles in Extrasolar Multiple Planet Systems
Eugenio J. Rivera, Nader Haghighipour
We present results of extensive numerical studies of the stability of non-interacting particles in the planetary systems of stars Upsilon Andromedae, GJ 876, 47 UMa, and 55 Cancri.…
On the Dynamical Stability of Gamma Cephei, an S-Type Binary Planetary System
Nader Haghighipour
Precision radial velocity measurements of the Gamma Cephei (HR8974) binary system suggest the existence of a planetary companion with a minimum mass of 1.7 Jupiter-mass on an ellip…
On the Stability of a Planetary System Embedded in the Beta Pictoris Debris Disk
Jared H. Crossley, Nader Haghighipour
It has recently been stated that the warp structure observed around the star Beta Pictoris may be due to four planets embedded in its debris disk (Wahhaj et al., 2003). It, therefo…
Rapid Growth of Dust Particles in the Vicinity of Local Gas Density Enhancements in a Solar Nebula
Nader Haghighipour
The results of a numerical study of the growth of solid particles, ranging from 1 micron to 1 millimeter in size, in the vicinity of an azimuthally symmetric density enhancement of…
On Gas-Drag Induced Rapid Migration of Solids in a Non-Uniform Solar Nebula
Nader Haghighipour, Alan P. Boss
We study the motions of small solids, ranging from micron-sized dust grains to meter-sized objects, in the vicinity of local pressure enhancements of a gaseous nebula. Integrating…
Stable 1:2 Resonant Periodic Orbits in Elliptic Three-Body Systems
Nader Haghighipour, Jocelyn Couetdic, Ferenc Varadi +1
The results of an extensive numerical study of the periodic orbits of planar, elliptic restricted three-body planetary systems consisting of a star, an inner massive planet and an…
Dynamical Evolution of Solids Subject to the Drag Force and the Self-Gravity of an Inhomogeneous and Marginally- Gravitationally Unstable Disk
Nader Haghighipour
The results of an extensive numerical study of the orbital dynamics of small bodies ranging from micron-sized dust grains to 1 km objects subject to gas drag and also the gravitati…
On Pressure Gradients and Rapid Migration of Solids in an Inhomogeneous Solar Nebula
Nader Haghighipour, Alan P. Boss
We study the motions of small solids, ranging from micron-sized dust grains to 100-m objects, in the vicinity of a local density enhancement of an isothermal gaseous solar nebula.…
Rapid Formation of Ice Giant Planets
Alan P. Boss, George W. Wetherill, Nader Haghighipour
The existence of Uranus and Neptune presents severe difficulties for the core accretion model for the formation of ice giant planets. We suggest an alternative mechanism, namely di…
Partial Averaging and Resonance Trapping in a Restricted Three-Body System
Nader Haghighipour
Based on the value of the orbital eccentricity of a particle and also its proximity to the exact resonant orbit in a three-body system, the Pendulum Approximation (Dermott & Murray…
Partial Averaging Near a Resonance in Planetary Dynamics
Nader Haghighipour
Following the general numerical analysis of Melita and Woolfson (1996), I showed in a recent paper that a restricted, planar, circular planetary system consisting of Sun, Jupiter a…
Dynamical Friction and Resonance Trapping in Planetary Systems
Nader Haghighipour
A restricted planar circular three-body system, consisting of the Sun and two planets, is studied as a simple model for a planetary system. The mass of the inner planet is consider…