Selected Publications

• Simon, Jacob B., Blum, Jürgen, Birnstiel, Til, Nesvorny, David, "Comets and Planetesimal Formation", to appear in Comets III. ArXiv Link

• Carrera, Daniel, Simon, Jacob B., “The Streaming Instability Cannot Form Planetesimals from Millimeter-size Grains in Pressure Bumps”, 2022, ApJ Letters, 933, L10. Link

• Carrera, Daniel, Simon, Jacob B., Li, Rixin, Kretke, Katherine A., Klahr, Hubert “Protoplanetary Disk Rings as Sites for Planetesimal Formation”, 2021, AJ, 161, 96-113. Link

• Nesvorny, David, Li, Rixin, Simon, Jacob B., Youdin, Andrew N., Richardson, Derek C., Marschall, Raphael, Grundy, William M. “Binary Planetesimal Formation from Gravitationally Collapsing Pebble Clouds”, 2021, PSJ, 2, 27-47. Link

• Gole, Daniel A., Simon, Jacob B., Li, Rixin, Youdin, Andrew N., Armitage, Philip J. "Turbulence Regulates the Rate of Planetesimal Formation via Gravitational Collapse", 2020, ApJ, 904, 132-146. Link

• Nesvorny, David, Li, Rixin, Youdin, Andrew N., Simon, Jacob B., Grundy, William M. “Trans-Neptunian Binary Evidence for Planetesimal Formation by the Streaming Instability”, 2019, Nature Astronomy, Vol. 3, 808-812, Link

• Simon, Jacob B., Bai, Xue-Ning, Flaherty, Kevin M., Hughes, A. Meredith, ``Origin of Weak Turbulence in the Outer Regions of Protoplanetary Disks”, 2018, ApJ, 865, 10-20, Link

• Flaherty, Kevin M., Hughes, A. Meredith, Rosenfeld, Katherine A., Andrews, Sean M., Chiang, Eugene, Simon, Jacob B., Kerzner, Skylar, Wilner, David J. “Weak Turbulence in the HD 163296 Protoplanetary Disk Revealed by ALMA CO Observations”, 2015, ApJ, 813, 99-119, Link

• Simon, Jacob B., Lesur, Geoffroy, Kunz, Matthew W., Armitage, Philip J. "Magnetized accretion in protoplanetary discs", 2015, MNRAS, 454, 1117-1131, Link

• Stone, James M., Gardiner, Thomas A., Teuben, Peter, Hawley, John F., Simon, Jacob B., "Athena: A New Code for Astrophysical MHD", 2008, ApJS, 178, 137-177, Link