Publications

Peer-reviewed publications:

  • Kavelaars et al., 2021. OSSOS finds an Exponential Cutoff in the Size Distribution of the Cold Classical Kuiper belt. Submitted to AAS journals (arXiv link)
  • Fink et al., 2021. Dust outburst dynamics and hazard assessment for close spacecraft-comet encounters. AAS journals, accepted.
  • Fraser et al., 2021. Col-OSSOS: The Distinct Colour Distribution of Single and Binary Cold Classical KBOs. PSJ, in press (ADS Link)
  • Abedin et al., 2021. Collision Probabilities in the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. AJ (ADS link)
  • Lin, Chen, Volk, et al., 2021. OSSOS: The Eccentricity and Inclination Distributions of the Stable Neptunian Trojans. Icarus (ADS link)
  • Hardegree-Ullman et al., 2021. K2-138 g: Spitzer Spots a Sixth Planet for the Citizen Science System. AJ (ADS link)
  • Kareta et al., 2021. Contemporaneous Multi-Wavelength and Precovery Observations of Active Centaur P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS). PSJ (ADS link)
  • Ashton et al., 2021. OSSOS: XVII. An upper limit on the number of distant planetary objects in the Solar System. Icarus (ADS link).
  • Steckloff, Sarid, Volk, et al., 2020. P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS): An Active Centaur in Imminent Transition to the Jupiter Family. ApJ Letters (ADS link)
  • Smullen & Volk, 2020. Machine Learning Classification of Kuiper Belt Populations. MNRAS (ADS link)
  • Volk & Malhotra, 2020. Dynamical instabilities in systems of multiple short-period planets are likely driven by secular chaos: a case study of Kepler-102. AJ (ADS link)
  • Nesvorný et al., 2020. OSSOS XX: The Meaning of Kuiper Belt Colors. AJ (ADS link)
  • Kareta, Volk, et al., 2020. An Extremely Temporary Co-orbital: The Dynamical State of Active Centaur 2019 LD2. RNAAS (link)
  • Marsset et al., 2020. Col-OSSOS: Compositional homogeneity of three Kuiper belt binaries. PSJ (ADS link)
  • Kareta et al., 2020. Carbon Chain Depletion of 2I/Borisov. ApJ Letters (ADS link)
  • Pike et al., 2020. A dearth of small members in the Haumea family revealed by OSSOS. Nature Astronomy (ADS link)
  • Kareta et al., 2019. Physical Characterization of the December 2017 Outburst of the Centaur 174P/Echeclus. AJ (ADS link)
  • Chen, Gladman, Volk, et al., 2019. OSSOS XVIII: Constraining migration models with the 2:1 resonance using the Outer Solar System Origin Survey. AJ (ADS link)
  • Sarid, Volk, Steckloff, Harris, Womack, & Woodney, 2019. 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, A Centaur in the Gateway to the Jupiter-Family Comets. ApJ Letters (ADS link)
  • Nesvorný et al., 2019. OSSOS XIX: Testing Early Solar System Dynamical Models using OSSOS Centaur Detections. AJ (ADS link)
  • Volk & Malhotra, 2019. Not a simple relationship between Neptune’s migration speed and Kuiper belt inclination excitation. AJ (ADS link)
  • Van Laerhoven, Gladman, Volk, et al., 2019. OSSOS: XIV. The plane of the Kuiper Belt. AJ (ADS link)
  • Schwamb, Fraser, Bannister, et al., 2019. Col-OSSOS: The Colours of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey. ApJS (ADS link)
  • Lawler et al., 2019. OSSOS: XIII. Fossilized resonant dropouts tentatively confirm Neptune’s migration was grainy and slow. AJ (ADS link)
  • Alexandersen et al., 2019. OSSOS XII: Variability studies of 65 Trans-Neptunian Objects using the Hyper Suprime-Cam. ApJS. (ADS link)
  • Marsset et al., 2019. Col-OSSOS: Color and Inclination are Correlated Throughout the Kuiper Belt. AJ (ADS link)
  • Schwamb et al., 2019. A Software Roadmap for Solar System Science with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. RNAAS (ADS link)
  • Cabral, Guilbert-Lepoutre, Fraser, Marsset, Volk, et al., 2019. OSSOS: XI. No active Centaurs in the Outer Solar System Origins Survey. A&A (ADS link)
  • Volk et al., 2018. OSSOS IX: two objects in Neptune’s 9:1 resonance — implications for resonance sticking in the scattering population. AJ (ADS link)
  • Malhotra, Lan, Volk, & Wang, 2018. Neptune’s 5:2 Resonance in the Kuiper Belt. AJ (ADS link)
  • Yu, Murray-Clay, & Volk, 2018. Trans-Neptunian Objects Transiently Stuck in Neptune’s Mean Motion Resonances: Numerical simulations of the current population. AJ (ADS link)
  • Lawler et al., 2018. OSSOS VIII. The transition between two size distribution slopes in the scattering disk. AJ (ADS link)
  • Bannister, Gladman, Kavelaars, Petit, Volk, & the OSSOS Collaboration, 2018. OSSOS: VII. 800+ trans-Neptunian objects — the full data release. ApJS (ADS link).
  • Volk & Malhotra, 2017. The curiously warped mean plane of the Kuiper belt. AJ (ADS link)
  • Pike et al., 2017. Col-OSSOS: Z band photometry reveals three distinct TNO surface types. AJ (ADS link)
  • Shankman et al., 2017. OSSOS: VI. Striking biases in the detection of large semimajor axis trans-Neptunian objects. AJ (ADS link)
  • Bannister, Shankman, Volk, et al., 2017. OSSOS: V. Diffusion in the orbit of a high-perihelion distant Solar System object. AJ (ADS link)
  • Fraser et al., 2017. All Planetesimals born near the Kuiper belt formed as binaries. Nature Astronomy (ADS link)
  • Bannister et al., 2016. OSSOS: IV. Discovery of a dwarf planet candidate in the 9:2 resonance. AJ (ADS link)
  • Volk et al., 2016.  OSSOS III – Resonant Trans-Neptunian Populations: Constraints from the first quarter of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey. AJ (ADS link)
  • Malhotra, Volk, & Wang, 2016. Corralling a distant planet with extreme resonant Kuiper belt objects. ApJ Letters (ADS link)
  • Bannister, Kavelaars, Petit, Gladman, Gwyn, Volk, Chen, Alexandersen, & the OSSOS collaboration, 2016. The Outer Solar System Origins Survey I: design and first-quarter discoveries. AJ  (ADS link)
  • Shankman et al., 2016. OSSOS II: A sharp transition in the absolute magnitude distribution of the Kuiper belt’s scattering population.  AJ  (ADS link)
  • Volk & Gladman, 2015.  Consolidating and Crushing Exoplanets: Did it Happen Here? ApJ Letters (ADS link)
  • Pike, Kavelaars, Petit, Gladman, Alexandersen, Volk, & Shankman, 2015. The 5:1 Neptune Resonance as Probed by CFEPS: Dynamics and Population. AJ (ADS link)
  • Volk & Malhotra, 2013.  Do Centaurs preserve their source inclinations?  Icarus (ADS link)
  • Volk & Malhotra, 2012.  The effect of orbital evolution on the Haumea (2003 EL61) collisional family. Icarus (ADS link)
  • Volk & Malhotra, 2011.  Inclination Mixing in the Classical Kuiper Belt. ApJ (ADS link)
  • Volk & Malhotra, 2008.  The Scattered Disk as the Source of the Jupiter Family Comets. ApJ (ADS link)
  • Cui, Yelle, & Volk, 2008.  Distribution and escape of molecular hydrogen in Titan’s thermosphere and exosphere. JGR (ADS link)

White papers:

  • Harris et al., 2020. Active Primordial Bodies: Exploration of the primordial composition of ice-rich planetesimals and early-stage evolution in the outer solar system. White Paper submitted for the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032 (ADS link)
  • Woodney et al., 2020. Strength In Diversity: Small Bodies as the Most Important Objects in Planetary Sciences. White Paper submitted for the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032 (arXiv link)
  • Volk, Schwamb, Fraser, et al., 2018. The Effects of Filter Choice on Outer Solar System Science with LSST. LSST Cadence Optimization White Paper (ADS link)
  • Schwamb, Volk, Lin, et al., 2018. A Northern Ecliptic Survey for Solar System Science. LSST Cadence Optimization White Paper (ADS link)

Selected recent conference proceedings:

  • 2021: Volk, Malhotra, & Graham, Mapping Neptune’s resonances into the distant solar system. DDA Meeting (ADS; link to recording)
  • 2020: Volk, Active Centaurs in Context: understanding future members of the Jupiter family comets. Invited plenary talk, DPS Meeting (ADS)
  • 2020: Volk & Malhotra, Characterizing and predicting dynamical instabilities in multiplanet systems. DPS Meeting (ADS)
  • 2020: Volk & Malhotra, Kepler-102: a case study for using dynamical constraints to characterize exoplanet systems. AAS Meeting, Honolulu, HI (ADS)
  • 2019: Volk & Malhotra, Not a simple relationship between Neptune’s migration speed and Kuiper belt inclination excitation. DDA Meeting, Boulder, CO (ADS)
  • 2018: Volk & Malhotra, A statistical exploration of the dynamical stability of Kepler and K2 multi-planet systems. DPS Meeting, Knoxville, TN (ADS)
  • 2018: Volk et al., Two objects in Neptune’s 9:1 resonance — implications for resonance sticking in the scattering population. DDA Meeting, San Jose, CA (ADS)
  • 2017: Volk et al., OSSOS: constraints on resonant trans-Neptunian populations from the full survey sample. DPS Meeting, Provo, UT. (ADS)
  • 2017: Volk & Malhotra, The curiously warped mean plane of the Kuiper belt. ACM Meeting, Montevideo, Uruguay.