Margaret Pan

NASA Goddard - Postdoctoral Researcher

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Years: 2009-2012

Biography

Hi there.

I’m a research scientist in EAPS(specifically planetary science) at MIT. I’m interested in planetary dynamics, debris disks, extrasolar planets, the Kuiper belt, planetary rings, and relativistic self-similar solutions; some of what I’ve been working on is on astro-ph and/orADS. But I’m curious to hear about new things as well….

Before this I was at Toronto,NASA Goddard, UC Berkeley,IAS, and Caltech — a few more details are in my CV.

Publications

“No evidence for two regimes of giant planet formation in the metallicities of host stars”. E. R. Newton, J. Burt, J. Dittmann, C. X. Huang, and M. Pan. ApJL, submitted (2017)
“Avoiding resonance capture in multi-planet extrasolar systems”. M. Pan and H. E. Schlichting. ApJ, submitted (2017)
“A complete ALMA map of the Fomalhaut debris disk”. M. A. MacGregor, L. Matra, P. Kalas, D. J. Wilner, M. Pan, G. M. Kennedy, M. C. Wyatt, G. Duchene, A. M. Hughes, G. H. Rieke, M. Clampin, M. P. Fitzgerald, . R. Graham, W. S. Holland, O. Panic, A. Shannon, and K. Su. ApJ 842, 8 (2017) (NRAO press release)
“Detection of exocometary CO within the 440 Myr-old Fomalhaut belt: a similar CO ice abundance in exocomets and solar system comets”. L. Matra, M. A. MacGregor, P. Kalas, M. C. Wyatt, G. M. Kennedy, D. J. Wilner, G. Duchene, A. M. Hughes, M. Pan, A. Shannon, M. Clampin, M. P. Fitzgerald, J. R. Graham, W. S. Holland, O. Panic, and K. Su. ApJ 842, 9 (2017)
“Apocenter glow in eccentric debris disks: applications to Fomalhaut and epsilon Eridani”. M. Pan, E. R. Nesvold, and M. J. Kuchner. ApJ 832, 81 (2016)
“On the mass and origin of Chariklo’s rings”. M. Pan and Y. Wu. ApJ 821, 1 (2016)
“SMACK: A New Algorithm for Modeling Collisions and Dynamics of Planetesimals in Debris Disks”. E. R. Nesvold, M. J. Kuchner, H. Rein, and M. Pan. ApJ 777, 144 (2013)
“Stochastic migration of propellers”. M. Pan, H. Rein, E. I. Chiang, and S. N. Evans. MNRAS 427, 4 (2012)
“Self-consistent size and velocity distributions of collisional cascades”. M. Pan and H. E. Schlichting. ApJ 747, 113 (2012)
“Care and feeding of frogs”. M. Pan and E. I. Chiang. AJ 143, 9 (2012)
“Observational biases in determining extrasolar planet eccentricities in single-planet systems”. N. Zakamska, M. Pan, and E. B. Ford. MNRAS 410, 1895 (2011)
“The propeller and the frog”. M. Pan and E. I. Chiang. ApJ 722L, 178 (2010)
“Composite self-similar solutions for relativistic shocks: The transition to cold fluid temperatures”. M. Pan and R. Sari. Physics of Fluids 21, 6101 (2009)
“Rotation rates in the Koronis family, complete to H = 11.2”. S. M. Slivan, R. P. Binzel, S. C. Boroumand, M. Pan, C. M. Simpson, J. T. Tanabe, R. M. Villastrigo, L. L. Yen, R. P. Ditteon, D. P. Pray, and R. D. Stephens, Icarus 195, 226 (2008)
“Physical models of ten asteroids from an observers’ collaboration network”. J. Durech, M. Kaasalainen, A. Marciniak, W. H. Allen, R. Behrend, C. Bembrick, T. Bennett, L. Bernasconi, J. Berthier, G. Bolt, S. Boroumand, L. Crespo da Silva, R. Crippa, M. Crow, R. Durkee, R. Dymock, M. Fagas, M. Fauerbach, S. Fauvaud, M. Frey, R. Goncalves, R. Hirsch, D. Jardine, K. Kaminski, R. Koff, T. Kwiatkowski, A. Lopez, F. Manzini, T. Michalowski, R. Pacheco, M. Pan, F. Pilcher, R. Poncy, D. Pray, W. Pych, R. Roy, G. Santacana, S. Slivan, S. Sposetti, R. Stephens, B. Warner, and M. Wolf, A&A 465, 331 (2007)
“Self-similar solutions for relativistic shocks emerging from stars with polytropic envelopes”. M. Pan and R. Sari, ApJ 643, 416 (2006)
“Shaping the Kuiper belt size spectrum by shattering large but strengthless bodies”. M. Pan and R. Sari, Icarus 173, 342 (2005)
“A generalization of the Lagrangian points: studies of resonance for highly eccentric orbits”. M. Pan and R. Sari, AJ 128, 1418 (2004)
“The plane of the Kuiper belt”. M. E. Brown and M. Pan, AJ 127, 2418 (2004)
“Testing models of stellar evolution for metal-poor stars: an interferometric-spectroscopic orbit for the binary HD 195987”. G. Torres, A. F. Boden, D. W. Latham, M. Pan, R. P. Stefanik, AJ 124, 1716 (2002)