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Past efforts to interrogate the mantle's contribution to Earth's topography suffer from inadequate in-situ measurements of true bathymetry and the involvement of an empirical plate model whose presumed lithospheric density profile…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-06-27 Adam J. Stewart , Yanchong Li , Zebin Cao , Lijun Liu

We investigate the interaction history of the M31 sub-group of galaxies by comparing surface photometry of its two nearest satellites, M32 and NGC 205, with N-body simulations of satellite destruction. The recent discovery of a giant stream…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Philip I. Choi , Puragra Guhathakurta , Kathryn V. Johnston

Main Belt comets represent a recently discovered class of objects. They are quite intriguing because, while having a Tisserand invariant value higher than 3, are showing cometary activity. We study the activity of the Main Belt comets…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Maria Teresa Capria , Simone Marchi , Maria Cristina De Sanctis , Angioletta Coradini , Eleonora Ammannito

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a key component of the climate system and considered to be a tipping element. There is still a large uncertainty on the critical global warming level at which the AMOC will start to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 René M. van Westen , Elian Y. P. Vanderborght , Michael Kliphuis , Henk A. Dijkstra

We study hysteresis properties of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) under a slowly-varying North Atlantic (20$^{\circ}$N -- 50$^{\circ}$N) freshwater flux forcing in state-of-the-art Global Climate Model (GCM), the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 René M. van Westen , Henk A. Dijkstra

Whether there is a cosmic shoreline that divides terrestrial planets which have atmospheres from those that don't is one of the biggest open questions in exoplanet science. Most atmosphere searches have focused on terrestrial planets around…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Michael Radica

It has been suggested that the comet-like activity of Main Belt Comets is due to the sublimation of sub-surface water-ice that is exposed when these objects are impacted by meter-sized bodies. We recently examined this scenario and showed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Nader Haghighipour , Thomas I. Maindl , Christoph M. Schaefer , Oliver J. Wandel

This preliminary investigation addresses the discovery of an unidentified crater located south of the Sahara Desert between Qaret Had El Bahr and Qaret El Allafa, Egypt. The unidentified crater (hereafter tentatively named El Bahr Crater)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-28 Antonia Paris , Shalabiea Osama M , Ahmed Mohamed , Evan Davies

Surface photometry of the M31 satellites M32 and NGC 205 is compared to numerical simulations of satellite destruction to constrain orbital parameters and the interaction history of the M31 subgroup. Our analysis reveals the following…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Philip I. Choi , Puragra Guhathakurta , Kathryn V. Johnston

The Earth's Moon is thought to have formed from a circumterrestrial disk generated by a giant impact between the proto-Earth and an impactor approximately 4.5 billion years ago. Since the impact was energetic, the disk would have been hot…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-31 Miki Nakajima , David J. Stevenson

Predicting the shape of a crater formed by high velocity impact is of interest in several fields. It can aid in design of more efficient protective structures, in forensic analysis of bullet holes, and in understanding the effects of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Tal Cohen

In this paper we discuss hypotheses on formation of ocean skeletal structures. These structures entered the ocean together with atmospheric precipitation and were assembled from fragments of skeletal structures present in clouds. We base…

General Physics · Physics 2010-04-21 V. A. Rantsev-Kartinov , C. G. Parigger

The analysis of databases of photographic images of the Sun (obtained in region of soft x-ray) by means of a method of multilevel dynamical contrasting, has shown presence of skeletal structures of the Sun as outside (chromo-sphere flashes…

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The processes and instabilities occurring at the ocean surface in the northern Gulf of Mexico are investigated with a regional model at submesoscale-permitting horizontal grid resolution (i.e., HR with dx = 1.6 km) over a three-year period,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Hao Luo , Annalisa Bracco , Yuley Cardona , Jim C. McWilliams

Lithosphere is an outer rigid part of the terrestrial body, usually consisting of the crust and part of the mantle. Characterizing the physical properties of the lithosphere is critical in investigating its evolution. By modeling…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-14 Qingyun Deng , Zhen Zhong , Mao Ye , Wensen Zhang , Denggao Qiu , Chong Zheng , Jianguo Yan , Fei Li , Jean-Pierre Barriot

We provide a homogeneous set of structural parameters of 83 star clusters located at the periphery of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The clusters' stellar density and surface brightness profiles were…

The Earth--Moon system has been experiencing impacts from asteroids and comets for billions of years. The Moon, as an airless body, has preserved a distinct record of these events in form of impact craters and ejecta deposits, offering…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Yifei Jiao , Bin Cheng , Hexi Baoyin

Cliff collapses on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko expose relatively pristine nucleus matter and offer rare opportunities to characterise ice-rich comet material. Here, Microwave Instrument for \emph{Rosetta} Orbiter (MIRO) observations of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-22 Björn J. R. Davidsson

We present analysis of the proper-motion (PM) field of the red clump stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) disk using the Gaia Early Data Release 3 catalog. Using a kinematic model based on old stars with 3D velocity measurements, we…

Over the last five years, studies of the kinematics in protoplanetary disks have led to the discovery of new protoplanet candidates and several structures linked to possible planet-disk interactions. We detect a localized kinematic bipolar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 Felipe Alarcón , Edwin Bergin , Richard Teague