PTYS/LPL Research Scientists
Kathryn Volk
Ph.D., 2013, University of Arizona
Orbital Dynamics, Theoretical Astrophysics
Kuiper belt objects, planetary dynamics, exoplanets
Complete publications list available from: Kathryn Volk
Recent refereed publications (NASA ADS): Years 2019 through May 2023
Fraser, Wesley C., Pike, Rosemary E., Marsset, Michaël, Schwamb, Megan E., Bannister, Michele T., Buchanan, Laura, Kavelaars, J. J., Benecchi, Susan D., Tan, Nicole J., Peixinho, Nuno, Gwyn, Stephen D. J., Alexandersen, Mike, Chen, Ying-Tung, Gladman, Brett, & Volk, Kathryn 2023, The Planetary Science Journal. Col-OSSOS: The Two Types of Kuiper Belt Surfaces
Petit, Jean-Marc, Gladman, Brett, Kavelaars, J. J., Bannister, Michele T., Alexandersen, Mike, Volk, Kathryn, & Chen, Ying-Tung 2023, The Astrophysical Journal. The Hot Main Kuiper Belt Size Distribution from OSSOS
Abedin, Abedin Y., Kavelaars, J. J., Petit, Jean-Marc, Gladman, Brett, Bannister, Michele, Alexandersen, Mike, Chen, Ying-Tung, Gwyn, Stephen, & Volk, Kathryn 2022, The Astronomical Journal. OSSOS. XXVI. On the Lack of Catastrophic Collisions in the Present Kuiper Belt
Lisse, C. M., Steckloff, J. K., Prialnik, D., Womack, M., Harrington Pinto, O., Sarid, G., Fernandez, Y. R., Schambeau, C. A., Kareta, T., Samarasinha, N. H., Harris, W., Volk, K., Woodney, L. M., Cruikshank, D. P., & Sandford, S. A. 2022, The Planetary Science Journal. 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1: A Rosetta Stone for Amorphous Water Ice and CO ↔ CO<SUB>2</SUB> Conversion in Centaurs and Comets?
Volk, Kathryn & Malhotra, Renu 2022, The Astrophysical Journal. Orbital Dynamics Landscape near the Most Distant Known Trans-Neptunian Objects
Crompvoets, B. L., Lawler, S. M., Volk, K., Chen, Y. -T., Gladman, B., Peltier, L., Alexandersen, M., Bannister, M. T., Gwyn, S., Kavelaars, J. J., & Petit, J. -M. 2022, The Planetary Science Journal. OSSOS XXV: Large Populations and Scattering-Sticking in the Distant Trans-Neptunian Resonances
Huang, Yukun, Gladman, Brett, & Volk, Kathryn 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. Free Inclinations for Trans-Neptunian Objects in the Main Kuiper Belt
Buchanan, Laura E., Schwamb, Megan E., Fraser, Wesley C., Bannister, Michele T., Marsset, Michaël, Pike, Rosemary E., Nesvorný, David, Kavelaars, J. J., Benecchi, Susan D., Lehner, Matthew J., Wang, Shiang-Yu, Peixinho, Nuno, Volk, Kathryn, Alexandersen, Mike, Chen, Ying-Tung, Gladman, Brett, Gwyn, Stephen, & Petit, Jean-Marc 2022, The Planetary Science Journal. Col-OSSOS: Probing Ice Line/Color Transitions within the Kuiper Belt's Progenitor Populations
Alexandersen, Mike, Greenstreet, Sarah, Gladman, Brett J., Bannister, Michele T., Chen, Ying-Tung, Gwyn, Stephen D. J., Kavelaars, JJ, Petit, Jean-Marc, Volk, Kathryn, Lehner, Matthew J., & Wang, Shiang-Yu 2021, The Planetary Science Journal. OSSOS. XXIII. 2013 VZ<SUB>70</SUB> and the Temporary Coorbitals of the Giant Planets
Kavelaars, J. J., Petit, Jean-Marc, Gladman, Brett, Bannister, Michele T., Alexandersen, Mike, Chen, Ying-Tung, Gwyn, Stephen D. J., & Volk, Kathryn 2021, The Astrophysical Journal. OSSOS Finds an Exponential Cutoff in the Size Distribution of the Cold Classical Kuiper Belt
Gladman, Brett & Volk, Kathryn 2021, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Transneptunian Space
Fraser, Wesley C., Benecchi, Susan D., Kavelaars, J. J., Marsset, Michaël, Pike, Rosemary E., Bannister, Michele T., Schwamb, Megan E., Volk, Kathryn, Nesvorny, David, Alexandersen, Mike, Chen, Ying-Tung, Gwyn, Stephen, Lehner, Matthew J., & Wang, Shiang-Yu 2021, The Planetary Science Journal. Col-OSSOS: The Distinct Color Distribution of Single and Binary Cold Classical KBOs
Lin, Hsing Wen, Chen, Ying-Tung, Volk, Kathryn, Gladman, Brett, Murray-Clay, Ruth, Alexandersen, Mike, Bannister, Michele T., Lawler, Samantha M., Ip, Wing-Huen, Lykawka, Patryk Sofia, Kavelaars, J. J., Gwyn, Stephen D. J., & Petit, Jean-Marc 2021, Icarus. OSSOS: The eccentricity and inclination distributions of the stable Neptunian Trojans
Hardegree-Ullman, Kevin K., Christiansen, Jessie L., Ciardi, David R., Crossfield, Ian J. M., Dressing, Courtney D., Livingston, John H., Volk, Kathryn, Agol, Eric, Barclay, Thomas, Barentsen, Geert, Benneke, Björn, Gorjian, Varoujan, & Kristiansen, Martti H. 2021, The Astronomical Journal. K2-138 g: Spitzer Spots a Sixth Planet for the Citizen Science System
Kareta, Theodore, Woodney, Laura M., Schambeau, Charles, Fernandez, Yanga, Pinto, Olga Harrington, Wierzchos, Kacper, Womack, M., Bus, S. J., Steckloff, Jordan, Sarid, Gal, Volk, Kathryn, Harris, Walter M., & Reddy, Vishnu 2021, The Planetary Science Journal. Contemporaneous Multiwavelength and Precovery Observations of the Active Centaur P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS)
Abedin, Abedin Y., Kavelaars, J. J., Greenstreet, Sarah, Petit, Jean-Marc, Gladman, Brett, Lawler, Samantha, Bannister, Michele, Alexandersen, Mike, Chen, Ying-Tung, Gwyn, Stephen, & Volk, Kathryn 2021, The Astronomical Journal. OSSOS. XXI. Collision Probabilities in the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt
Ashton, Edward, Gladman, Brett, Kavelaars, J. J., Jones, R. Lynne, Krughoff, K. Simon, Alexandersen, Mike, Bannister, Michele T., Chen, Ying-Tung, Gwyn, Stephen, Petit, Jean-Marc, & Volk, Kathryn 2021, Icarus. OSSOS. XVII. An upper limit on the number of distant planetary objects in the Solar System
Steckloff, J. K., Sarid, G., Volk, K., Kareta, T., Womack, M., Harris, W., Woodney, L., & Schambeau, C. 2020, The Astrophysical Journal. P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS): An Active Centaur in Imminent Transition to the Jupiter Family
Smullen, Rachel A. & Volk, Kathryn 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Machine learning classification of Kuiper belt populations
Volk, Kathryn & Malhotra, Renu 2020, The Astronomical Journal. Dynamical Instabilities in Systems of Multiple Short-period Planets Are Likely Driven by Secular Chaos: A Case Study of Kepler-102
Szczerba, R., Hajduk, M., Pavlenko, Ya. V., Hrivnak, B. J., Kaminsky, B. M., Volk, K., Siódmiak, N., Gezer, I., Začs, L., Pych, W., & Sarna, M. 2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics. Validating post-AGB candidates in the LMC and SMC using SALT spectra
Nesvorný, David, Vokrouhlický, David, Alexandersen, Mike, Bannister, Michele T., Buchanan, Laura E., Chen, Ying-Tung, Gladman, Brett J., Gwyn, Stephen D. J., Kavelaars, J. J., Petit, Jean-Marc, Schwamb, Megan E., & Volk, Kathryn 2020, The Astronomical Journal. OSSOS XX: The Meaning of Kuiper Belt Colors
Marsset, Michaël, Fraser, Wesley C., Bannister, Michele T., Schwamb, Megan E., Pike, Rosemary E., Benecchi, Susan, Kavelaars, J. J., Alexandersen, Mike, Chen, Ying-Tung, Gladman, Brett J., Gwyn, Stephen D. J., Petit, Jean-Marc, & Volk, Kathryn 2020, The Planetary Science Journal. Col-OSSOS: Compositional Homogeneity of Three Kuiper Belt Binaries
Kareta, Theodore, Andrews, Jennifer, Noonan, John W., Harris, Walter M., Smith, Nathan, O'Brien, Patrick, Sharkey, Benjamin N. L., Reddy, Vishnu, Springmann, Alessondra, Lejoly, Cassandra, Volk, Kathryn, Conrad, Albert, & Veillet, Christian 2020, The Astrophysical Journal. Carbon Chain Depletion of 2I/Borisov
Pike, Rosemary E., Proudfoot, Benjamin C. N., Ragozzine, Darin, Alexandersen, Mike, Maggard, Steven, Bannister, Michele T., Chen, Ying-Tung, Gladman, Brett J., Kavelaars, J. J., Gwyn, Stephen, & Volk, Kathryn 2020, Nature Astronomy. A dearth of small members in the Haumea family revealed by OSSOS
Chen, Ying-Tung, Gladman, Brett, Volk, Kathryn, Murray-Clay, Ruth, Lehner, Matthew J., Kavelaars, J. J., Wang, Shiang-Yu, Lin, Hsing-Wen, Lykawka, Patryk Sofia, Alexandersen, Mike, Bannister, Michele T., Lawler, Samantha M., Dawson, Rebekah I., Greenstreet, Sarah, Gwyn, Stephen D. J., & Petit, Jean-Marc 2019, The Astronomical Journal. OSSOS. XVIII. Constraining Migration Models with the 2:1 Resonance Using the Outer Solar System Origins Survey
Alexandersen, Mike, Benecchi, Susan D., Chen, Ying-Tung, Eduardo, Marielle R., Thirouin, Audrey, Schwamb, Megan E., Lehner, Matthew J., Wang, Shiang-Yu, Bannister, Michele T., Gladman, Brett J., Gwyn, Stephen D. J., Kavelaars, JJ., Petit, Jean-Marc, & Volk, Kathryn 2019, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. OSSOS. XII. Variability Studies of 65 Trans-Neptunian Objects Using the Hyper Suprime-Cam
Sarid, G., Volk, K., Steckloff, J. K., Harris, W., Womack, M., & Woodney, L. M. 2019, The Astrophysical Journal. 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, A Centaur in the Gateway to the Jupiter-family Comets
Nesvorný, David, Vokrouhlický, David, Stern, Alan S., Davidsson, Björn, Bannister, Michele T., Volk, Kathryn, Chen, Ying-Tung, Gladman, Brett J., Kavelaars, J. J., Petit, Jean-Marc, Gwyn, Stephen D. J., & Alexandersen, Mike 2019, The Astronomical Journal. OSSOS. XIX. Testing Early Solar System Dynamical Models Using OSSOS Centaur Detections
Volk, Kathryn & Malhotra, Renu 2019, The Astronomical Journal. Not a Simple Relationship between Neptune’s Migration Speed and Kuiper Belt Inclination Excitation
Schwamb, Megan E., Fraser, Wesley C., Bannister, Michele T., Marsset, Michaël, Pike, Rosemary E., Kavelaars, J. J., Benecchi, Susan D., Lehner, Matthew J., Wang, Shiang-Yu, Thirouin, Audrey, Delsanti, Audrey, Peixinho, Nuno, Volk, Kathryn, Alexandersen, Mike, Chen, Ying-Tung, Gladman, Brett, Gwyn, Stephen D. J., & Petit, Jean-Marc 2019, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. Col-OSSOS: The Colors of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey
Van Laerhoven, Christa, Gladman, Brett, Volk, Kathryn, Kavelaars, J. J., Petit, Jean-Marc, Bannister, Michele T., Alexandersen, Mike, Chen, Ying-Tung, & Gwyn, Stephen D. J. 2019, The Astronomical Journal. OSSOS. XIV. The Plane of the Kuiper Belt
Lawler, S. M., Pike, R. E., Kaib, N., Alexandersen, M., Bannister, M. T., Chen, Y. -T., Gladman, B., Gwyn, S., Kavelaars, J. J., Petit, J. -M., & Volk, K. 2019, The Astronomical Journal. OSSOS. XIII. Fossilized Resonant Dropouts Tentatively Confirm Neptune’s Migration Was Grainy and Slow
Gładkowski, M., Szczerba, R., Sloan, G. C., Lagadec, E., & Volk, K. 2019, Astronomy and Astrophysics. 30-micron sources in galaxies with different metallicities
Marsset, Michaël, Fraser, Wesley C., Pike, Rosemary E., Bannister, Michele T., Schwamb, Megan E., Volk, Kathryn, Kavelaars, J. J., Alexandersen, Mike, Chen, Ying-Tung, Gladman, Brett J., Gwyn, Stephen D. J., Lehner, Matthew J., Peixinho, Nuno, Petit, Jean-Marc, & Wang, Shiang-Yu 2019, The Astronomical Journal. Col-OSSOS: Color and Inclination Are Correlated throughout the Kuiper Belt
Cabral, Nahuel, Guilbert-Lepoutre, Aurélie, Fraser, Wesley C., Marsset, Michaël, Volk, Kathryn, Petit, Jean-Marc, Rousselot, Philippe, Alexandersen, Mike, Bannister, Michele T., Chen, Ying-Tung, Gladman, Brett, Gwyn, Stephen D. J., & Kavelaars, John J. 2019, Astronomy and Astrophysics. OSSOS. XI. No active centaurs in the Outer Solar System Origins Survey
- Vera Rubin Early Career Prize to Dr. Kathryn Volk - April 28, 2022
- Beyond Jupiter, Researchers Discovered a 'Cradle of Comets' - October 22, 2019
- UA Scientists and the Curious Case of the Warped Kuiper Belt - June 20, 2017
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View LPL Evening Lecture from November 1, 2017, Are There Unseen Planets Lurking in the Kuiper Belt?
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