Dimitri Veras, Ph.D.

Last updated: Oct. 16th, 2009

Hi, I am a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Florida, and work with Eric B. Ford on the dynamics and evolution of planetary systems. I attained my undergraduate degree at Yale University and I conducted my graduate research in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder with Philip J. Armitage.  My Ph.D. dissertation is entitled, "The Orbital Evolution of Extrasolar Planets After Formation." A list of my refereed journal publications is below. If you cannot access the papers through your institution but wish to do so, email me! Feel free to contact me at: veras at astro dot ufl dot edu. In addition to research, I have a keen interest in astronomical trivia and associated outreach activities, and am always looking for new applications.



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REFEREED PUBLICATIONS (email me if you would like a PDF):


-- Veras, D., Crepp, J.R., Ford, E.B., 2009. "Formation, Survival, and Detectability of Planets Beyond 100 AU", Astrophysical Journal, 696, pp. 1600-1611.  

-- Veras, D., Ford, E.B., 2009. "Secular Evolution of HD 12661: a System Caught at an Unlikely Time", Astrophysical Journal Letters, 690, pp. L1-L4.  

-- Dodson-Robinson, S.E., Veras, D., Ford, E.B., Beichman, C.A., 2009. "The Formation Mechanisms of Gas Giants on Wide Orbits" , Astrophysical Journal, 707, pp. 79-88.  

-- Raymond, S.N., Barnes, R., Veras, D., Armitage, P.J., Gorelick, N., Greenberg, R., 2009. "Planet-planet Scattering Leads to Tightly Packed Planetary Systems", Astrophysical Journal Letters, 696, pp. L98-L101.  

-- Wright, J.T., Fischer, D.A., Ford, E.B., Veras, D., Wang, J., Henry, G.W., Marcy, G.W., Howard, A.W., Asher, J., 2009. "A Third Planet Orbiting HIP 14810", Astrophysical Journal Letters, 699, pp. L97-L101.  

-- Ford, E.B., Quinn, S.N., Veras, D., 2008. "Characterizing the Orbital Eccentricities of Transiting Extrasolar Planets with Photometric Observations", Astrophysical Journal, 678, pp. 1407-1418.  

-- Veras, D., 2007. "A Resonant Term-Based-Model Including a Nascent Disk, Precession, and Oblateness: Application to GJ 876", Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 99, pp. 197-243.  

-- Veras, D., Armitage, P.J., 2007. "Extrasolar planetary dynamics with a generalized planar Laplace-Lagrange secular theory", Astrophysical Journal, 661, pp. 1311-1322.  

-- Veras, D., Armitage P.J., 2006. "Predictions for the correlation between giant and terrestrial extrasolar planets in dynamically evolved systems", Astrophysical Journal, 645, pp. 1509-1515.  

-- Veras, D., Armitage P.J., 2005. "The influence of massive planet scattering on nascent terrestrial planets", Astrophysical Journal Letters, 620, pp. L111-L114.  

-- Veras, D., Armitage P.J., 2004. "The dynamics of two massive planets on inclined orbits", Icarus, 172, pp. 349-371.  

-- Veras, D., Armitage P.J., 2004. "Outward migration of extrasolar planets to large orbital radii", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 347, pp. 613-624.  

-- Asghari, N., et al. 2004. "Stability of terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of Gl 777 A, HD 72659, Gl 614, 47 Uma and HD 4208", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 426, pp. 353-365.