With LPL since: August 2000

Classes taught

• PTYS 195A New Views of the Solar System
• NATS 101 Planet Earth: Evolution of a Habitable World
• PTYS 553 Solar System Dynamics
  

Graduate Students

• Brenae Bailey (Applied Math)
• David Minton (LPL)
• Kathryn Volk (LPL)

• Amaya Moro-Martin , Ph.D. (2004), Dissertation: Signatures of planets in circumstellar debris disks (pdf.gz,11.7Mb)
  (Currently at Princeton University)
• Matthew Tiscareno , Ph.D. (2004), Dissertation: Chaotic diffusion in the outer solar system and other topics
  (Currently at Cornell University)

Research Associates

• Steve Kortenkamp (currently at Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ)
• Takashi Ito (currently at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo)

Spacecraft involvement

• InterStellar Probe
• Hubble Space Telescope
• Spitzer Space Telescope Legacy Science: Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems

Awards

• Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 2006
• Harold C. Urey Prize, AAS-Division for Planetary Sciences, 1997
• Asteroid 6698 named Malhotra, International Astronomical Union, 1997

Recent Publications/Preprints

• Tiscareno, M.S., Malhotra, R., 2008, Chaotic diffusion of resonant Kuiper Belt objects, AJ, submitted.
  Preprint
• Volk, K., Malhotra, R., 2008, The Scattered Disk as the source of the Jupiter family comets, ApJ, in press.
  Preprint
• Malhotra, R., Minton, D.A., 2008, Prospects for the habitability of OGLE-2006-BLG-109L, ApJ-Letters, in press.
  Preprint
• Moro-Martin, A. Wyatt, M.C., Malhotra, R., Trilling, D.E., Extra-Solar Kuiper Belt Dust Disks, Chapter in the book "The solar system beyond Neptune", edited by A. Barucci, H. Boehnhardt, D. Cruikshank and A. Morbidelli, The University of Arizona Press, 2008.
  Preprint
• Moro-Martin, A., Malhotra, R., et al., The dust, planetesimals and planets of HD 38529, ApJ, 668:1165-1173 (2007).
  Preprint
• Minton, D.A., and Malhotra, R., Assessing the massive young Sun hypothesis to solve the warm young Earth puzzle, ApJ, 660:1700-1706 (2007).
  Preprint
• Moro-Martin, A., et al., Are Debris Disks and Massive Planets Correlated?, ApJ, 658:1312-1321 (2007).
  Preprint
• Ito, T., and Malhotra, R., Dynamical transport of asteroid fragments from the nu6 resonance, Advances in Space Research, 38(4), 817-825 (2006).
  Journal Article; Preprint (pdf)
• Pascucci, I., et al., Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Upper Limits to the Gas Mass in Disks Around Sun-like Stars, ApJ, 651:1177-1193 (2006).
  Preprint
• Moro-Martin, A., Wolf, S., and Malhotra, R., Signatures of planets in spatially unresolved debris disks, ApJ, 621:1079-1097 (2005).
  Journal Article ; Preprint
• Kim, J.S., et al., Formation and evolution of planetary systems: cold outer disks associated with sun-like stars, ApJ, 632:659-669 (2005).
  Preprint
• Moro-Martin, A. and Malhotra, R., Dust outflows and inner gaps generated by massive planets in debris disks, ApJ, 633:1150-1167 (2005).
  Preprint
• Hahn, J.M., and Malhotra, R., Neptune's Migration into a Stirred-Up Kuiper Belt: A Detailed Comparison of Simulations to Observations, AJ, 130:2392-2414 (2005).
  Preprint
• Strom, R.G., Malhotra, R., Ito, T., Yoshida, F., Kring, D.A., The origin of planetary impactors in the inner solar system, Science 309, 1847-1850 (2005).
  Abstract Full Text Preprint (pdf)

• ...More publications

Recent presentations

• Secular resonances in planetary systems, Annual Meeting of the AAS Division for Dynamical Astronomy--American Astronomical Society, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 2006.

• Eccentric extra-solar planets, Harvard University, Institute for Theory and Computation, September 2005

• Planets in debris disks, May Symposium: A decade of extra-solar planets around normal stars, Space Telescope Science Institute, May 2005.

• The bombardment history of the terrestrial planets:
  University of Arizona, Theoretical Astrophysics, February 2006
  Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics, September 2005
  Southwest Research Institute, Boulder CO, May 2005
  Caltech, April 2005
  University of California, Santa Cruz CA, April 2005
  National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson AZ, April 2005
  

• Exo-planetary debris disks, Planet Formation Conference, Aspen Institute for Physics, Aspen, CO, Feb 8-12, 2005.

• ISP Meeting, Tucson, AZ, Nov 2004

• TPF-Darwin Conf., San Diego, CA, July 2004

• Astrophysics of Planetary Systems Conf., Harvard U., May 2004

• Planet Formation Conf., KITP, Mar 2004

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