Selected Publications

• Lim, Jeonghoon, Simon, Jacob B., Li, Rixin, Armitage, Philip J., Carrera, Daniel, Lyra, Wladimir, Rea, David G., Yang, Chao-Chin, Youdin, Andrew N., “Streaming Instability and Turbulence: Conditions for Planetesimal Formation”, submitted to ApJ, ArXiv Link

• 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

• Flaherty, Kevin M., Hughes, A. Meredith, Simon, Jacob B., Qi, Chunhua, Bai, Xue-Ning, Bulatek, Alyssa, Andrews, Sean M., Wilner, David J., Kóspál, Ágnes, “Measuring turbulent motion in planet- forming disks with ALMA: A detection around DM Tau and non-detections around MWC 480 and V4046 Sgr”, 2020, ApJ, 895, 109-126.
  Winner of IOP Publishing Top Cited Paper Award (2020 to 2022)

• 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

• 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