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Megan Schwamb

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4365-1455

  • Room 02.014 - New Physics

    United Kingdom

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I am open to PhD projects in planetary science, planetary astronomy, small body astronomy, and Mars seasonal processes.

20092026

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Dr. Schwamb's research focuses on how planets and their building blocks form and evolve. With ground-based surveys, she studies our Solar System's small body reservoirs, in particular focusing on the Kuiper belt beyond Neptune. She also utilizes citizen science to mine large datasets for Solar System science.

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  • Col-OSSOS: investigating the origins of different surfaces in the primordial kuiper belt

    Buchanan, L. E., Schwamb, M. E., Fraser, W. C., Bannister, M. T., Kavelaars, J. J., Marsset, M., Pike, R. E., Nesvorný, D., Lawler, S. M., Benecchi, S. D., Peixinho, N., Tan, N. J., Volk, K., Alexandersen, M. & Petit, J.-M., 30 Jan 2026, In: The Planetary Science Journal. 7, 1, 15 p., 25.

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  • Coma physics of an interstellar object: JWST spatial–spectral mapping of 3I/ATLAS

    Roth, N. X., Cordiner, M. A., Milam, S. N., Villanueva, G. L., Charnley, S. B., Biver, N., Bockelée-Morvan, D., Bodewits, D., Bromley, S. J., Crovisier, J., Drozdovskaya, M. N., Faggi, S., Farnocchia, D., Furuya, K., Kelley, M. S. P., Micheli, M., Noonan, J. W., Opitom, C., Schwamb, M. E. & Thomas, C. A., 01 Jul 2026, In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 1005, 1, 16 p., L5.

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  • Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Neptune Trojans

    Murtagh, J., Schwamb, M. E., Bernardinelli, P. H., Lin, H. W., Kurlander, J. A., Merritt, S. R., Cornwall, S., Jurić, M., Fedorets, G., Holman, M. J., Eggl, S., Jones, R. L., Yoachim, P., Moeyens, J., Kubica, J., Oldag, D., West, M. & Chandler, C. O., Feb 2026, In: The Astronomical Journal. 171, 2, 21 p., 90.

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  • JWST detection of a carbon-dioxide-dominated gas coma surrounding interstellar object 3I/ATLAS

    Cordiner, M. A., Roth, N. X., Kelley, M. S. P., Bodewits, D., Charnley, S. B., Drozdovskaya, M. N., Farnocchia, D., Micheli, M., Milam, S. N., Opitom, C., Schwamb, M. E., Thomas, C. A. & Bagnulo, S., 01 Oct 2025, In: The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 991, 2, 10 p., L43.

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  • NGTS-EB-8: a double-lined eclipsing M+M binary discovered by citizen scientists

    O’Brien, S. M., Schwamb, M. E., Watson, C. A., Nielsen, L. D., Bryant, E. M., Casewell, S. L., Burleigh, M. R., Fortson, L., Gill, S., Lintott, C. J., Hobbs, K. L., Apergis, I., Bayliss, D., Fernández Fernández, J., Günther, M. N., Hawthorn, F., Jenkins, J. S., Kendall, A., McCormac, J. & de Mooij, E. J. W. & 37 others, Rodel, T., Saha, S., Trouille, L., West, R. G., Wheatley, P. J., Agafitei, M. C., Apaydın, D. R., Baeten, E., Baller, B., Carabott, J., Chesson, S., Freigeiro, S. A., Gonano, V., Hanke, M., Hermes, P., Hildebrand, A., Langley, J. S., Lim, S. M., McCarthy, L. R., Mitchell, G., O’Neill, K., Pearson, C. R., Reket, N., Riethmiller, J., Saeftel, J., Sainio, A., Steiner, C., Strickland, A., Tanner, C., Terentev, I. A., Tiu, E. J. P., Tumanov, S. Y., Urszula, M., Vahlenkamp, P., de Vroome, F., Wantuch, P. & Woodruff, T., 01 Dec 2025, In: The Astronomical Journal. 170, 6, 25 p., 316.

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