Selected Publications

• Lim, Jeonghoon; Simon, Jacob B.; Li, Rixin; Brouillette, Olivia; Rea, David G.; Lyra, Wladimir; “The Streaming Instability in 3D: Conditions for Strong Clumping”, 2026, ApJ, 1000, 156. Link⁠

• Godines, Daniel; Lyra, Wladimir; Ricci, Luca; Yang, Chao-Chin; Simon, Jacob B.; Lim, Jeonghoon; Carrera, Daniel; “On the Mass Budget Problem of Protoplanetary Disks: Streaming Instability and Optically Thick Emission”, 2026, ApJ, 997, 192.  Link⁠

• Carrera, Daniel; Davenport, Abigail; Simon, Jacob B.; Baehr, Hans; Birnstiel, Til; Hall, Cassandra; Rea, David; Stammler, Sebastian; “Turbulence Inhibits Planetesimal Formation in Class 0/I Disks Subject to Infall”, 2025, ApJ, 990, 39.  Link⁠

• Rea, David G.; Simon, Jacob B.; Carrera, Daniel; Lesur, Geoffroy; Lyra, Wladimir; Sengupta, Debanjan; Yang, Chao-Chin; Youdin, Andrew N.; “Magnetically Driven Turbulence in the Inner Regions of Protoplanetary Disks”, 2024, ApJ, 972, 128.  Link⁠

• 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”, 2024, ApJ, 969, 130.  Link⁠

• Simon, Jacob B.; Blum, Jürgen; Birnstiel, Til; Nesvorný, David; “Comets and Planetesimal Formation”, chapter in Comets III, University of Arizona Space Science Series, edited by Karen J. Meech, R. Combi, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan, Sean N. Raymond, and Michael E. Zolensky, 2024.  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.  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 Nondetections around MWC 480 and V4046 Sgr”, 2020, ApJ, 895, 109.  Link⁠
  Winner of IOP Publishing Top Cited Paper Award (2020 to 2022)

• Nesvorný, David; Li, Rixin; Youdin, Andrew N.; Simon, Jacob B.; Grundy, William M.; “Trans-Neptunian Binaries as Evidence for Planetesimal Formation by the Streaming Instability”, 2019, Nature Astronomy, 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.  Link⁠