Publications

Lead author

  • Origin of Mars’s moons by disruptive partial capture of an asteroid. Kegerreis, J. A., Lissauer, J. J., Eke, V. R., Sandnes, T. D., Elphic, R. C. Icarus, 425:116337, Nov. 2024. doi:~10.1016/j.icarus.2024.116337.

  • A recent impact origin of Saturn’s rings and mid-sized moons. Teodoro, L. F. A, Kegerreis, J. A. (corr. author), Estrada, P. R., Ćuk, M., Eke, V. R., Cuzzi, J. N., Massey, R. J., Sandnes, T. D. Astrophys. J., 955:2, Oct. 2023. doi:~10.3847/1538-4357/acf4ed.

  • Immediate origin of the Moon as a post-impact satellite. J. A. Kegerreis, S. Ruiz-Bonilla, V. R. Eke, R. J. Massey, T. D. Sandnes, L. F. A. Teodoro. ApJL 937:L40, Oct. 2022. doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac8d96.

  • Atmospheric Erosion by Giant Impacts onto Terrestrial Planets: A Scaling Law for any Speed, Angle, Mass, and Density. J. A. Kegerreis, V. R. Eke, D. C. Catling, R. J. Massey, L. F. A. Teodoro, K. J. Zahnle. ApJL 901:2, Oct. 2020. doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/abb5fb.

  • Atmospheric Erosion by Giant Impacts onto Terrestrial Planets. J. A. Kegerreis, V. R. Eke, R. J. Massey, L. F. A. Teodoro. ApJ, 897:2, July 2020. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab9810.

  • Planetary Giant Impacts: Convergence of High-Resolution Simulations using Efficient Spherical Initial Conditions and SWIFT.
    J. A. Kegerreis, V. R. Eke, P. G. Gonnet, D. G. Korycansky, R. J. Massey, M. Schaller, L. F. A. Teodoro.
    Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 487:4, August 2019. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stz1606.

  • Consequences of Giant Impacts on Early Uranus for Rotation, Internal Structure, Debris, and Atmospheric Erosion.
    J. A. Kegerreis, L. F. A. Teodoro, V. R. Eke, R. J. Massey, D. C. Catling, C. L. Fryer, D. G. Korycansky, M. S. Warren, K. J. Zahnle.
    Astrophys. J., 861:52, July 2018. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aac725.

  • Evidence for a Localized Source of the Argon in the Lunar Exosphere.
    J. A. Kegerreis, V. R. Eke, R. J. Massey, S. K. Beaumont, R. C. Elphic, L. F. Teodoro.
    J. Geophys. R. (Planets), 122:2163-2181, Oct. 2017. doi: 10.1002/2017JE005352.

Supervised PhD students

  • REMIX SPH – improving mixing in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations using a generalised, material-independent approach. Sandnes, T. D., Eke, V. R., Kegerreis, J. A., Massey, R. J., Ruiz-Bonilla, S., Schaller, M., Teodoro, L. F. A. J. Comp. Phys., in review, July 2024. arxiv:2407.18587.

  • Dealing with density discontinuities in planetary SPH simulations. S. Ruiz-Bonilla, J. Borrow, V. R. Eke, J. A. Kegerreis, R. J. Massey, T. D. Sandnes, L. F. A. Teodoro. MNRAS 512:3, May 2022. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stac857.

  • The effect of pre-impact spin on the Moon-forming collision. S. Ruiz-Bonilla, V. R. Eke, J. A. Kegerreis, R. J. Massey, L. F. A. Teodoro. MNRAS 500:3, Jan. 2021. doi: 10.1093/mnras/staa3385.

Co-author

  • SWIFT: A modern highly-parallel gravity and smoothed particle hydrodynamics solver for astrophysical and cosmological applications. Schaller, M. et al. MNRAS, 530:2, May 2023. doi~10.1093/mnras/stae922.

  • Moon-forming impactor as a source of Earth’s basal mantle anomalies. Yuan, Q. et al. Nature, 623:7985, Nov. 2023. doi~10.1038/s41586-023-06589-1.

  • Abell 1201: detection of an ultramassive black hole in a strong gravitational lens. Nightingale, J. W. et al. MNRAS, 521:3, May 2023. doi~10.1093/mnras/stad587.

  • Measurement of the free neutron lifetime using the neutron spectrometer on NASA’s Lunar Prospector mission. J. T. Wilson, D. J. Lawrence, P. N. Peplowski, V. R. Eke, J. A. Kegerreis. Phys. Rev. C 104:4, Oct. 2021. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.104.045501.

  • Space-based measurement of the neutron lifetime using data from the neutron spectrometer on NASA’s MESSENGER mission. J. T. Wilson, D. J. Lawrence, P. N. Peplowski, V. R. Eke, J. A. Kegerreis. Phys. Rev. Res., 2:2, June 2020. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023316.

Books and Chapters