Renu Malhotra: List of Publications

• Minton, D.A., Malhotra, R., 2009, A record of planet migration in the main asteroid belt, Nature, 457:1109-111
  
• Bailey, B.L., Malhotra, R., 2009, Two dynamical classes of Centaurs, Icarus, in press.
• Tiscareno, M.S., Malhotra, R., 2009, Chaotic diffusion of resonant Kuiper Belt objects, AJ, in press.
• Volk, K., Malhotra, R., 2008, The Scattered Disk as the source of the Jupiter family comets, ApJ, 687:714-725.
• Malhotra, R., Minton, D.A., Prospects for the habitability of OGLE-2006-BLG-109L, ApJ-Letters, 683:L67-L70 (2008).
• 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.
• Moro-Martin, A., Malhotra, R., et al., The dust, planetesimals and planets of HD 38529, ApJ, 668:1165-1173 (2007).
• Minton, D.A., and Malhotra, R., Assessing the massive young Sun hypothesis to solve the warm young Earth puzzle, ApJ, 660:1700-1706 (2007).
• Moro-Martin, A., et al., Are Debris Disks and Massive Planets Correlated?, ApJ, 658:1312-1321 (2007).
• Ito, T., and Malhotra, R., Dynamical transport of asteroid fragments from the nu6 resonance, Advances in Space Research, 38(4), 817-825 (2006). 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).
• Moro-Martin, A., Wolf, S., and Malhotra, R., Signatures of planets in spatially unresolved debris disks, ApJ, 621:1079-1097 (2005).
• Kim, J.S., et al., Formation and evolution of planetary systems: cold outer disks associated with sun-like stars, ApJ, 632:659-669 (2005).
• Moro-Martin, A. and Malhotra, R., Dust outflows and inner gaps generated by massive planets in debris disks, ApJ, 633:1150-1167 (2005).
• 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).
• 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). Preprint (pdf)

• Kortenkamp, S.J., Malhotra, R., and Michtchenko, T., Survival of Trojan-Type Companions of Neptune During Primordial Planet Migration, Icarus, 167:347-359 (2004). Preprint (pdf,1.5Mb)

• Michtchenko, T., and Malhotra, R., Secular Dynamics of the Three-Body Problem: Application to the upsilon Andromedae Planetary System, Icarus, 168:237-248 (2004). Preprint (pdf,0.5Mb)

• Meyer, M., et al., The formation and evolution of planetary systems: First results from a Spitzer Legacy Science Program, ApJS, 154, 422--427 (2004). Preprint

• Bernstein, G.M., D.E. Trilling, R.L. Allen, M.E. Brown, M. Holman, R. Malhotra, The Size Distribution of Trans-Neptunian Bodies, AJ 128:1364-1390 (2004). Erratum.

• Yoshida, F., et al, Photometric observation of a very young family-member asteroid (832) Karin, Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 56, 1105-1113, (2004). Preprint (pdf)

• Moro-Martin, A. and Malhotra, R., Dynamical models of Kuiper Belt Dust in the inner and outer Solar system, AJ, 125:2255-2265 (2003).

• Tiscareno, M., and Malhotra, R., The dynamics of known Centaurs, AJ, 126:3122-3131 (2003).

• Allen, R.L., Bernstein, G.M. and Malhotra, R., Observational Limits on a Distant Cold Kuiper Belt, AJ, 124, 2949-2954 (2002).

• Malhotra, R., A dynamical mechanism for establishing apsidal resonance, ApJ, 575:L33-L36 (2002 August 10).

• Moro-Martin, A. and Malhotra, R., A Study of the Dynamics of Dust from the Kuiper Belt: Spatial Distribution and Spectral Energy Distribution, Astron. J., 124:2305-2321 (2002).

• Allen, R.L., Bernstein, G.M. and Malhotra, R., The edge of the Solar system, ApJ 549:L241-L244 (2001).

• Malhotra, R., Duncan, M. and Levison, H., Dynamics of the Kuiper Belt, in Protostars and Planets IV , University of Arizona Press-Tucson, p. 1231-1254 (2000). Preprint (pdf,0.9Mb)

• Malhotra, R., Holman, M., and Ito, T., Chaos and stability in the Solar system, PNAS, 98(22):12342-12343 (2001).

• Stepinski, T.F., Malhotra, R., and Black, D.C., The Upsilon Andromedae System: Models and Stability, ApJ 545:1044-1053 (2000).

• Malhotra, R., Migrating Planets, Scientific American 281(3):56-63 (1999). Article

• Hahn, J.M., and Malhotra, R., Orbital evolution of planets embedded in a massive planetesimal disk, AJ 117:3041-3053 (1999).

• Malhotra, R., Chaotic planet formation, Nature 402:599-600 (1999).

• Showman, A. and Malhotra, R., The Galilean Satellites, Science 286:77 (1999).

• Malhotra, R., Orbital resonances and chaos in the Solar system, Invited lecture at the International Workshop on Planetary Sciences, Solar System Formation and Evolution, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ASP Conference Series vol. 149 (1998). Preprint (pdf,1.4Mb)

• Malhotra, R. and J. Williams, The heliocentric motion of Pluto, in Pluto and Charon, D.J. Tholen and S.A. Stern, eds., Arizona Space Science Series, Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson (1997).

• Liou, J.C. and R. Malhotra, Depletion of the outer asteroid belt, Science 275:375-377 (1997).

• Showman, A., D.J. Stevenson and R. Malhotra, Coupled orbital and thermal evolution of Ganymede, Icarus 129:367-383 (1997).

• Showman, A. and Malhotra, R., Tidal evolution into the Laplace resonance and the resurfacing of Ganymede, Icarus 127:93-111 (1997).

• Malhotra, R., The phase space structure in the Kuiper Belt, AJ 111:504-516 (1996).

• Malhotra, R., The origin of Pluto's orbit: implications for the Solar system beyond Neptune, AJ 110:420-429 (1995).

• Malhotra, R., Dynamical model of pulsar-planet systems, in Millisecond Pulsars -- A Decade of Surprise, M. Tavani, D. Backer & A. Fruchter, eds. Pub.: Astronomical Society of the Pacific. p. 399-410 (1995).

• Malhotra, R., Nonlinear Resonances in the Solar System, Physica D 77:289-304 (1994)

• Malhotra, R., A mapping method for the gravitational few-body problem with dissipation, Cel. Mech. & Dyn. Astron. 60:373-385 (1994).

• Malhotra, R., The origin of Pluto's peculiar orbit, Nature 365:819-821 (1993).

• Malhotra, R., Orbital resonances in the Solar Nebula: strengths and weaknesses, Icarus 106:264-73 (1993).

• Malhotra, R., Orbital dynamics of PSR1257+12 and its two planetary companions, ASP Conf. Proc. # 36 (1993)

• Malhotra, R., Three-body effects in the planetary system of PSR1257+12, ApJ 407:266-275 (1993).

• Malhotra, R., D. Black, A. Eck and A. Jackson, Resonant orbital evolution of the putative planetary system of PSR1257+12, Nature 356:583-35 (1992).

• Malhotra, R., Tidal origin of the Laplace resonance and the resurfacing of Ganymede, Icarus 94:399-412 (1991).

• Malhotra, R., Capture probabilities for secondary resonances, Icarus 87:249--264 (1990). Erratum

• Malhotra, R., and S.F. Dermott, The role of secondary resonances in the orbital history of Miranda, Icarus 85:444--480 (1990).

• Dermott, S.F., P.D. Nicholson, R. Gomes and R. Malhotra, Modelling the IRAS Solar System dust bands, Advances in Space Research 10(3):171--180 (1990).

• Malhotra, R., K. Fox, C.D. Murray and P.D.~Nicholson, Secular perturbations of the Uranian satellites: Theory and practice, Astron. & Astrophys. 221:348--358 (1989).

• Dermott, S.F., Malhotra, R., and Murray, C.D., Dynamics of the Saturnian and Uranian satellites: A chaotic route to melting Miranda? Icarus 76:295-334 (1988). Scanned Article (pdf,4Mb)

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