325 citations · 933 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for
11 papers
Merging stellar-mass binary black holes
Ilya Mandel, Alison Farmer
The LIGO and Virgo detectors have directly observed gravitational waves from mergers of pairs of stellar-mass black holes, along with a smaller number of mergers involving neutron…
Magnetic braking in ultracompact binaries
Alison Farmer, Gijs Roelofs
Angular momentum loss in ultracompact binaries, such as the AM Canum Venaticorum stars, is usually assumed to be due entirely to gravitational radiation. Motivated by the outflows…
Saturn in hot water: viscous evolution of the Enceladus torus
Alison J. Farmer
The detection of outgassing water vapor from Enceladus is one of the great breakthroughs of the Cassini mission. The fate of this water once ionized has been widely studied; here w…
Spontaneous axisymmetry breaking of Saturn's external magnetic field
Peter Goldreich, Alison J. Farmer
Saturn's magnetic field is remarkably axisymmetric. Its dipole axis is inclined by less than 0.2 deg with respect to its rotation axis. Rotationally driven convection of magnetosph…
Understanding the behavior of Prometheus and Pandora
Alison J. Farmer, Peter Goldreich
We revisit the dynamics of Prometheus and Pandora, two small moons flanking Saturn's F ring. Departures of their orbits from freely precessing ellipses result from mutual interacti…
Spoke formation under moving plasma clouds
Alison J. Farmer, Peter Goldreich
Goertz and Morfill (1983) propose that spokes on Saturn's rings form under radially moving plasma clouds produced by meteoroid impacts. We demonstrate that the speed at which a pla…