10 papers
On the Secular Evolution of Inclinations Among the Classical Belt TNOs
Dallin Spencer, Darin Ragozzine, Kat Volk +1
Proper orbital elements have been used in diverse ways to study the dynamical architecture of transneptunian objects (TNOs), providing insights into Solar System evolution and migr…
Producing planetary debris exterior to white dwarf Roche radii through sublimative rotational fission
Dimitri Veras, Jordan K. Steckloff, Kathryn Volk
The majority of white dwarfs that host periodic transiting planetary debris do so at distances that exceed the rubble-pile Roche limit, in disagreement with canonical formation mod…
Small Body Dynamics with SBDynT: Proper Elements and Chaos Analysis
Dallin Spencer, Kat Volk, Darin Ragozzine +1
The Small Body Dynamics Tool (SBDynT) is software written for the community of Solar System small body researchers to perform dynamical classification, characterization, and invest…
LiDO: Discovery of a 10:1 Resonator with a Novel Libration State
Rosemary E. Pike, Ruth Murray-Clay, Kathryn Volk +9
The Large inclination Distant Objects LiDO survey has discovered the first securely classified object in the 10:1 mean motion resonance of Neptune. This object, 2020 VN40, is short…
Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Discovery Rates and Characterizations of Centaurs
Joseph Murtagh, Megan E. Schwamb, Stephanie R. Merritt +16
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will start by the end of 2025 and operate for ten years, offering billions of observations of the southern nigh…
Forcing Planets to Evolve: Interactions Between Uranus and Neptune at Late Stages of Dynamical Evolution
Arcelia Hermosillo Ruiz, Ruth Murray-Clay, Kathryn Volk +1
In early Solar System numerical simulations, where chaos is a primary driver, it is difficult to explore parameter space in a systematic way. In such simulations, stable configurat…
Machine Learning Assisted Dynamical Classification of Trans-Neptunian Objects
Kathryn Volk, Renu Malhotra
Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are small, icy bodies in the outer solar system. They are observed to have a complex orbital distribution that was shaped by the early dynamical hist…
Jupiter Co-Orbital Comet P/2023 V6 (PANSTARRS): Orbital History and Modern Activity State
Theodore Kareta, John W. Noonan, Kathryn Volk +2
The discovery of the transient Jupiter co-orbital comet P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS) drew significant interest. Not only will LD2 transition between being a Centaur and a Jupiter Family Come…
Differences between Stable and Unstable Architectures of Compact Planetary Systems
Kathryn Volk, Renu Malhotra
We present a stability analysis of a large set of simulated planetary systems of three or more planets based on architectures of multiplanet systems discovered by \textit{Kepler} a…
Uranus's influence on Neptune's exterior mean motion resonances
Severance Graham, Kathryn Volk
Neptune's external mean motion resonances play an important role in sculpting the observed population of transneptunian objects (TNOs). The population of scattering TNOs are known…