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Research Interests
Professor Lithwick works on a variety of topics in theoretical and computational astrophysics. He is especially interested in planet formation, including both the early and late stages of this process, and planetary dynamics. For the early stages, he is interested in the dynamics of the gas disk that surrounds a newly-formed star, and for the late stages he is interested in how planetesimals accumulate into planets, and what sets the architecture of the resulting planetary system. Other topics he works on include the formation of cosmological dark matter haloes, MHD turbulence, and gamma-ray bursts.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Physics, PhD, California Institute of Technology
… → 2002
Physics, MSc, University of Toronto
… → 1995
Engineering Science, BASc, University of Toronto
… → 1994
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Planets in Long-Lived Accretion Disks
Lithwick, Y. (PD/PI) & Munoz, D. J. (Co-Investigator)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
7/13/23 → 7/12/26
Project: Research project
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Accurate TTV characterization of Kepler planetary systems, and the implications for their dynamics and formation
Lithwick, Y. (PD/PI)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
9/1/15 → 8/31/17
Project: Research project
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CAREER: Planet Formations in the Age of Kepler
Lithwick, Y. (PD/PI)
6/1/14 → 8/31/20
Project: Research project
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Deciphering Kepler's Planetary Systems
Lithwick, Y. (PD/PI)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
1/1/14 → 12/31/19
Project: Research project
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Architecture of Planetary Systems: Solar and Extrasolar
Lithwick, Y. (PD/PI)
9/1/11 → 8/31/15
Project: Research project
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Extreme Scale Height Variations and Nozzle Shocks in Warped Disks
Kaaz, N., Lithwick, Y., Liska, M. & Tchekhovskoy, A., Feb 1 2025, In: Astrophysical Journal. 979, 2, 192.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Irradiated Disks May Settle into Staircases
Kutra, T., Wu, Y. & Lithwick, Y., Apr 1 2024, In: Astrophysical Journal. 964, 2, 165.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Scopus citations -
Repelling Planet Pairs by Ping-pong Scattering
Wu, Y., Malhotra, R. & Lithwick, Y., Aug 1 2024, In: Astrophysical Journal. 971, 1, 5.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access4 Scopus citations -
The Criterion for Chaos in Three-planet Systems
Rath, J., Hadden, S. & Lithwick, Y., Jun 1 2022, In: Astrophysical Journal. 932, 1, 61.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access11 Scopus citations -
Long-lived Eccentric Modes in Circumbinary Disks
Munoz, D. J. & Lithwick, Y., Dec 20 2021, In: Astrophysical Journal. 905, 2, 106.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access11 Scopus citations
Datasets
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Transit timing variations of 145 Kepler planets
Hadden, S. (Creator) & Lithwick, Y. (Creator), Centre de Donnees Strasbourg (CDS), 2017
DOI: 10.26093/cds/vizier.51540005, https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/AJ/154/5
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139 Kepler planets transit time variations
Hadden, S. (Creator) & Lithwick, Y. (Creator), Centre de Donnees Strasbourg (CDS), 2017
DOI: 10.26093/cds/vizier.17870080, https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/787/80
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