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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…