Astro 6516: Astrophysical Dynamics: Student project

Here are some papers of interest. Each student will choose a subject to study over the next few weeks (may also want to study some recent follow-up works if relevant). In the week of Dec.6, each student (taking grade or SU option) will give a presentation (30 min) on their chosen topic.

1. Asteroid belt:

  • Wisdom, J. 1983 "Chaotic behavior and the origin of the 3/1 Kirkwood gap"
  • Nature of the Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt, by Dermott and Murray

    2. Comets: (Olive Ross)

  • Duncan, Quinn and Tremaine 1988 "The Origin of Short-Period Comets"
  • Quinn, Tremaine and Duncan 1990 "Planetary perturbations and The Origin of Short-Period Comets"

    3. Outer solar system:

  • Malhotra, R. 1995 "The Origin of Pluto’s Orbit: Implications for the Solar System Beyond Neptune"
  • Malhotra: Resonant Kuiper Belt Objects - a Review

    4. Distant planets ?

  • Producing Distant Planets by Mutual Scattering of Planetary Embryos by Solsbee and Tremaine

    5. Migration due to planet-debris scatterings

  • Murray, Hansen, Holman, Tremaine "Migrating Planets"

    6. TTV: (Alex Duquette)

  • "On detecting terrestrial planets with timing of giant planet transits" Agol, Eric; Steffen, Jason; Sari, Re'em; Clarkson, Will
  • "Extracting Planet Mass and Eccentricity from TTV Data" Lithwick, Xie and Wu

    7. Formation of KBO binaries

  • "Formation of Kuiper-belt binaries by dynamical friction and three-body encounters" by Goldreich et al.

    8. The origin of Saturn's rings and moons: (Sashabaw Niedbalski)

  • "The origin of Saturn's rings and moons" by S.Ida

    9. Evolution of Earth-Moon system (Chad Popik)

  • "Tidal Evolution of the Earth-Moon System with a High Initial Obliquity" by Cuk et al

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