Email: renu
With LPL since: August 2000
Classes taught
Graduate Students
Research Associates
- Steve Kortenkamp (currently at Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ)
- Takashi Ito (currently at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo)
Spacecraft involvement
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
- Moro-Martin, A., Malhotra, R., et al., 2007,
The dust, planetesimals and planets of HD 38529, ApJ, in press.
Preprint
- Moro-Martin, A. Wyatt, M.C., Malhotra, R., Trilling, D.E.,
Extra-Solar Kuiper Belt Dust Disks,
Chapter in the book "Kuiper Belt", edited by A. Barucci, H. Boehnhardt, D. Cruikshank and A. Morbidelli, in press.
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;
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)
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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.
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ISP Meeting, Tucson, AZ, Nov 2004
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TPF-Darwin Conf., San
Diego, CA, July 2004
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Astrophysics of
Planetary Systems Conf., Harvard U., May 2004
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Planet Formation Conf., KITP, Mar 2004
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