Selected Publications

• Nakajima, Miki; Atkins, Jeremy; Simon, Jacob B.; Quillen, Alice C., "The Limited Role of the Streaming Instability During Moon and Exomoon Formation", 2024, PSJ, 5, 145, 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", submitted to ApJ, ArXiv 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, 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, Link
  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