Current Grants

• Dynamical structure and evolution of the young solar system: NSF
• Planetary migration and Kuiper belt dynamics: NASA
• Distribution of planet masses, planet-planet separations and dynamical lifetimes of planetary systems: NASA

Current Spacecraft Involvement

• OSIRIS-REx

Student Collaborations/Advising

• Saverio Cambioni (PTYS)
• Michael Hammer (ASTR)
• Hamish Hay (PTYS)
• Nathan Hendler (PTYS)
• Youngmin JeongAhn, (PTYS)
• Lei Lan (Tsinghua University)
• David Minton, (PTYS)Jessica Pillow (APPMATH)
• Amaya Moro-Martin, (Astronomy)
• Sarah Morrison (PTYS)
• Rachel Smullen (ASTR)
• Adam Sutherland (ASTR)
• Matthew Tiscareno, (PTYS)
• Kathryn Volk,  ( PTYS)
• Xianyu Wang

Former Postdocs

• Kathryn Volk
• Joseph Hahn
• Stephen Kortenkamp

Complete publications list available from: NASA ADS Author search: Renu Malhotra

Refereed publications (NASA ADS): Calendar Year 2016 through July 2018

Malhotra, R., Lan, L., Volk, K., Wang, X. Neptune's 5:2 Resonance in the Kuiper Belt 2018AJ....156...55M

Trilling, D. E., Bellm, E. C., Malhotra, R. On the Detectability of Planet X with LSST 2018AJ....155..243T

Strom, R. G., Marchi, S., Malhotra, R. Ceres and the terrestrial planets impact cratering record 2018Icar..302..104S

Cambioni, S., Malhotra, R. The Mid-plane of the Main Asteroid Belt 2018AJ....155..143C

Su, K. Y. L., MacGregor, M. A., Booth, M., Wilner, D. J., Flaherty, K., Hughes, A. M., Phillips, N. M., Malhotra, R., Hales, A. S., Morrison, S., Ertel, S., Matthews, B. C., Dent, W. R. F., Casassus, S.  ALMA 1.3 mm Map of the HD 95086 System 2017AJ....154..225S

Volk, K., Malhotra, R.  Erratum: “The Curiously Warped Mean Plane of the Kuiper Belt” (2017, AJ, 154, 62) 2017AJ....154..212V

Volk, K., Malhotra, R.  The Curiously Warped Mean Plane of the Kuiper Belt 2017AJ....154...62V

Wang, X., Malhotra, R.  Mean Motion Resonances at High Eccentricities: The 2:1 and the 3:2 Interior Resonances 2017AJ....154...20W

JeongAhn, Y., Malhotra, R.  Simplified Derivation of the Collision Probability of Two Objects in Independent Keplerian Orbits 2017AJ....153..235J

Malhotra, R., Wang, X.  Eccentricity distribution in the main asteroid belt 2017MNRAS.465.4381M

Malhotra, R., Volk, K., Wang, X.  Corralling a Distant Planet with Extreme Resonant Kuiper Belt Objects 2016ApJ...824L..22M

Yoshida, F., Ito, T., Dermawan, B., Nakamura, T., Takahashi, S., Ibrahimov, M. A., Malhotra, R., Ip, W.-H., Chen, W.-P., Sawabe, Y., Haji, M., Saito, R., Hirai, M.  Lightcurves of the Karin family asteroids 2016Icar..269...15Y