Student Collaborators and Their Papers

G stands for Graduate, U stands for Undergraduate. The number following the letter represents the year in which we worked together.

Open positions available for graduate students and undergraduates.

Current students and some of their research topics:

14. Jonathan Lin (U2): Planet formation

13. Benjamin Vinson (U3): Three-body problem

 

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Former students and some of their research topics:

12. Eve J. Lee (G1/G2/G3/G4/G5): Planet and star formation. Sherman Fairchild Fellow in Theoretical Physics at Caltech.

• Magnetospheric Truncation, Tidal Inspiral, and the Creation of Short-Period and Ultra-Short-Period Planets, Eve J. Lee & Eugene Chiang, ApJ, 842, 40 (2017)

• A Primer for Unifying Debris Disk Morphologies, Eve J. Lee & Eugene Chiang, ApJ, 827, 125 (2016)

• Breeding Super-Earths and Birthing Super-Puffs in Transitional Disks, Eve J. Lee & Eugene Chiang, ApJ, 817, 90 (2016)

• Correlations Between Compositions and Orbits Established by the Giant Impact Era of Planet Formation, Rebekah I. Dawson, Eve J. Lee & Eugene Chiang, ApJ, 822, 54 (2016)

• A Metallicity Recipe for Rocky Planets, Rebekah I. Dawson, Eugene Chiang & Eve J. Lee, MNRAS, 453, 1471 (2015)

• To Cool is to Accrete: Analytic Scalings for Nebular Accretion of Planetary Atmospheres, Eve J. Lee & Eugene Chiang, ApJ, 811, 41 (2015)

• Make Super-Earths, Not Jupiters: Accreting Nebular Gas onto Solid Cores at 0.1 AU and Beyond, Eve J. Lee, Eugene Chiang, & Chris W. Ormel, ApJ, 797, 95 (2014)

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11. Tushar Mittal (G1/G2): Planetesimal formation, debris disks, mantle plumes

• Fast Modes and Dusty Horseshoes in Transitional Disks, Tushar Mittal & Eugene Chiang, ApJ Letters, 798, L25 (2015)

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10. Skylar Kerzner (U2): Protoplanetary disk rotation curves, with application to the Atacama Large Millimeter Array. Department of Astronomy Student Commencement Speaker.

• Weak Turbulence in the HD 163296 Protoplanetary Disk Revealed by ALMA CO Observations, Kevin M. Flaherty, Meredith A. Hughes, Katherine A. Rosenfeld, Sean M. Andrews, Eugene Chiang, Jacob B. Simon, Skylar Kerzner, & David J. Wilner, ApJ, 813, 99 (2015)

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9. Daniel Perez-Becker (G3/G4/G5/G6/G7): Ionization chemistry of protoplanetary disks, hot Jupiter hydrodynamics, disintegrating rocky planets. Data Scientist at Microsoft, Boston.

• Catastrophic Evaporation of Rocky Planets, Daniel Perez-Becker & Eugene Chiang, MNRAS, 433, 2294-2309 (2013)

• Atmospheric Heat Redistribution on Hot Jupiters, Daniel Perez-Becker & Adam P. Showman, ApJ, 776:134 16pp (2013)

• Surface Layer Accretion in Conventional and Transitional Disks Driven by Far-Ultraviolet Ionization, Daniel Perez-Becker & Eugene Chiang, ApJ, 735:8 13pp (2011)

• Surface Layer Accretion in Transitional and Conventional Disks: From Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons to Planets, Daniel Perez-Becker & Eugene Chiang, ApJ, 727:2 20pp (2011)

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8. Ruth A. Murray-Clay (G2/G3/G4/G5/G6): Planetary dynamics, planet formation, hot Jupiter atmospheres, pre-main-sequence phenomena. Awarded 2015 AAS Warner Prize. Associate Professor, UC Santa Cruz Astronomy.

• Atmospheric Escape from Hot Jupiters, R. A. Murray-Clay, E. I. Chiang, & N. Murray, ApJ, 693, 23-42 (2009)

• Inside-Out Evacuation of Transitional Protoplanetary Discs by the Magneto-Rotational Instability, E. Chiang & R. Murray-Clay, Nature Physics, 3, 604 (2007)

• The Origin of the Young Stars in the Nucleus of M31, P. Chang, R. Murray-Clay, E. Chiang, & E. Quataert, ApJ, 668, 236 (2007)

• Brownian Motion in Planetary Migration, R. A. Murray-Clay & E. I. Chiang, ApJ, 651, 1194-1208 (2006)

• A Brief History of Trans-Neptunian Space, E. Chiang, Y. Lithwick, R. Murray-Clay, M. Buie, W. Grundy, & M. Holman, invited review chapter for Protostars and Planets V, 895-909 (2007)

• A Signature of Planetary Migration: The Origin of Asymmetric Capture in the 2:1 Resonance, Ruth A. Murray-Clay & Eugene I. Chiang, 619, 623-638 (2005)

• The Circumbinary Ring of KH 15D, E. I. Chiang & R. A. Murray-Clay, ApJ, 617, 913-920 (2004)

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7. Hyomin Choi (U2/U3/U4): Oort Cloud, Kuiper Belt

• The Plane of the Classical Kuiper Belt, Eugene Chiang & Hyomin Choi, AJ, 136, 350-357

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6. Aaron T. Lee (G1/G2): Planetesimal formation, star formation

• Forming Planetesimals by Gravitational Instability: I. The Role of the Richardson Number in Triggering the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability , Aaron T. Lee, Eugene Chiang, Xylar Asay-Davis, & Joseph Barranco, ApJ, 718, 1367-1377 (2010)

• Forming Planetesimals by Gravitational Instability: II. How Dust Settles to its Marginally Stable State, Aaron T. Lee, Eugene Chiang, Xylar Asay-Davis, & Joseph Barranco, ApJ, 725, 1938-1954 (2010)

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5. Linda E. Strubbe (G2/G3): Debris disks, planetary dynamics, galaxy formation

• Dust Dynamics, Surface Brightness Profiles, and Thermal Emission Spectra of Debris Disks: The Case of AU Mic, Linda E. Strubbe & Eugene I. Chiang, ApJ, 648, 652-665 (2006)

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4. Jessica R. Lovering (U1/U2/U3): Observations of the Kuiper Belt, astrometry, origin of Trojan librators

• Resonant and Secular Families of the Kuiper Belt , E. I. Chiang, J.R. Lovering, R. L. Millis, M. W. Buie, L. H. Wasserman, & K. J. Meech, Earth, Moon, & Planets, as part of First Decadal Review of the Kuiper Belt special issue, 92, 49-62 (2003)

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3. Christopher J. Culter (U1/U2/U3/U4): Narrow ring dynamics, chaos

• Three-Dimensional Dynamics of Narrow Planetary Rings, E. I. Chiang & C. J. Culter, ApJ, 599, 675-685 (2004)

• The 1/5 Law for Chaos in the Three-Body Problem at Moderate Eccentricity, Christopher Culter, Honors Thesis in Physics (2005)

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2. Amy Jordan (U3/U4): Observations of the Kuiper Belt, astrometry, resonance dynamics

• On the Plutinos and Twotinos of the Kuiper Belt, E. I. Chiang & A. B. Jordan, ApJ, 124, 3430-3444 (2002)

• Resonance Occupation in the Kuiper Belt: Case Examples of the 5:2 and Trojan Resonances, E. I. Chiang, A. B. Jordan, R. L. Millis, M. W. Buie, L. H. Wasserman, J. L. Elliot, S. D. Kern, D. E. Trilling, K. J. Meech, & R. M. Wagner, AJ, 126, 430-443 (2003)

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1. Ryan Moo Kwang Joung (U3/U4): Thermodynamics and spectra of protoplanetary disks

• Spectral Energy Distributions of Passive T Tauri and Herbig Ae Disks: Grain Mineralogy, Parameter Dependences, and Comparison with ISO LWS Observations, E. I. Chiang, M.K. Joung, M.J. Creech-Eakman, C. Qi, J. Kessler, G.A. Blake, & E.F. van Dishoeck, ApJ, 547, 1077-1089 (2001)

• ISO LWS Spectra of T Tauri and Herbig AeBe Stars, M.J. Creech-Eakman, E.I. Chiang, R.M.K. Joung, G.A. Blake, & E.F. van Dishoeck, A & A, 385, 546-562 (2002)