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Combined Orbital and Thermal Evolution of Oort Cloud Comets
Adam Parhi, Dina Prialnik
We present a fully integrated model of comet evolution that couples thermal and compositional processes with dynamical processes continuously, from formation to present-day activit…
Sublimation of ices during the early evolution of Kuiper belt objects
Adam Parhi, Dina Prialnik
Kuiper belt objects, such as Arrokoth, the probable progenitors of short-period comets, formed and evolved at large heliocentric distances, where the ambient temperatures appear to…
About the loss of a primordial atmosphere of super-Earths by planetesimal impacts
Michael Lozovsky, Dina Prialnik, Morris Podolak
We consider planets composed of water ice and rock, located far from a central star. In an earlier study, computing the growth of planets by continuous accretion, we found that a l…
29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann: A Rosetta Stone for Amorphous Water Ice and CO <-> CO2 Conversion in Centaurs and Comets?
C. M. Lisse, J. K. Steckloff, D. Prialnik +12
Centaur 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 (SW1) is a highly active object orbiting in the transitional Gateway region (Sarid et al. 2019) between the Centaur and Jupiter Family Comet regi…
Amorphous ice in comets: evidence and consequences
Dina Prialnik, David Jewitt
Ice naturally forms in the disordered or ``amorphous'' state when accreted from vapor at temperatures and pressures found in the interstellar medium and in the frigid, low density…
The Effect of Accretion Rate and Composition on the Structure of Ice-rich Super-Earths
Michael Lozovsky, Dina Prialnik, Morris Podolak
It is reasonable to assume that the structure of a planet and the interior distribution of its components are determined by its formation history. We thus follow the growth of a pl…