9 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…