Publications

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Exoplanets & Planet formation theory


Ali-Dib, M., Cumming, A.; Lin, D. N. C. 2022. The effect of late giant collisions on the atmospheres
of protoplanets and the formation of cold sub-Saturns. MNRAS Volume 509, Issue 1, pp.1413-1431

Ali-Dib, M., Cumming, A.; Lin, D. N. C. 2021. The Imprint of the Protoplanetary Disk in the
Accretion of Super-Earth Envelopes. MNRAS Volume 494, Issue 2, pp.2440-2448

Ali-Dib, M. & Petrovich, C. 2020. Constraining protoplanetary discs with exoplanetary dynamics:
Kepler-419 as an example. MNRAS Volume 499, Issue 1, pp.106-115

Ali-Dib, M., & Thompson., C. 2019. Limit to Protoplanet Growth by Accretion of Small Solids.
ApJ Volume 900, Issue 2, id.96, 24 pp.

Ali-Dib, M., Lakhlani, G. 2018a. Possible formation pathways for the low density Neptune-mass
planet HAT-P-26b. MNRAS Volume 473, issue 1, pp. 1325-1331.

Ali-Dib, M., Johansen, A., Huang, C. X. 2017c. The origin of the occurrence rate profile of gas
giants inside 100 d . MNRAS, Volume 464, Issue 4, p.4282-4298

Ali-Dib, M. 2017b. Disentangling Hot Jupiters formation location from their chemical composition.
MNRAS, Volume 467, Issue 4, p.2845-2854

Ali-Dib, M. 2017a. A pebbles accretion model with chemistry and implications for the solar system.
MNRAS, Volume 464, Issue 4, p.4282-4298

Ali-Dib, M., Martin, R. G., Petit, J.-M., Mousis, O., Vernazza, P., Lunine, J. I. 2015. Nebular dead
zone effects on the D/H ratio in chondrites and comets. A&A 583, A58.

Ali-Dib, M., Mousis, O., Petit, J.-M., Lunine, J. I. 2014b. Carbon-rich Planet Formation in a Solar
Composition Disk. ApJ 785, 125.

Ali-Dib, M., Mousis, O., Pekmezci, G. S., Lunine, J. I., Madhusudhan, N., Petit, J.-M. 2014a.
Influence of the C/O ratio on titanium and vanadium oxides in protoplanetary disks. A&A 561, A60.

Peterson, M. , Benneke, B., Collins, K., Crossfield, I., Piaulet, C., Ali-Dib, M., et al. 2022.
Atemperate Earth-sized planet with tidally-heated interior transiting an M6 star. Nature, accepted
(under embargo).

Petrovich, C.; Wu, Y.; Ali-Dib, M., 2019. Secular Transport during Disk Dispersal: The Case of
Kepler-419. AJ, V157, Issue 1, article id. 5, 13 pp.

Jackson, A. P., Tamayo, D., Hammond, N., Ali-Dib, M., and Rein, H. 2018. Ejection of rocky and
icy material from binary star systems: implications for the origin and composition of 1I/‘Oumuamua.
MNRAS V478, Issue 1, p.L49-L53

Mousis, O.; Lunine, J. I.; Luspay-Kuti, A.; Guillot, T.; Marty, B.; Ali-Dib, M., and 7 colleagues 2016.
A Protosolar Nebula Origin for the Ices Agglomerated by Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ApJ
819, L33.

Guilbert-Lepoutre, A., Besse, S., Mousis, O., Ali-Dib, M., Hofner, S., Koschny, D., Hager, P. 2015.
On the Evolution of Comets. Space Science Reviews 197, 271-296.

Willacy, K.; Alexander, C.; Ali-Dib, M., and 12 colleagues 2015.
The Composition of the Protosolar
Disk and the Formation Conditions for Comets. Space Science Reviews 197, 151-190.

Ellinger, Y., Pauzat, F., Mousis, O., Guilbert-Lepoutre, A., Leblanc, F., Ali-Dib, M., Doronin, M.,
Zicler, E., Doressoundiram, A. 2015. Neutral Na in Cometary Tails as a Remnant of Early Aqueous
Alteration. ApJ 801, L30.

Mousis, O., and 50 colleagues 2014. Scientific rationale for Saturn’s in situ exploration. Planetary and
Space Science 104, 29-47.

Mousis, O., Lunine, J. I., Fletcher, L. N., Mandt, K. E., Ali-Dib, M., Gautier, D., Atreya, S. 2014.
New Insights on Saturn’s Formation from its Nitrogen Isotopic Composition. ApJ 796, L28. 

Pauzat, F., Ellinger, Y., Mousis, O., Ali-Dib, M., Ozgurel, O. 2013. Gas-phase Sequestration of Noble
Gases in the Protosolar Nebula: Possible Consequences on the Outer Solar System Composition. ApJ
777, 29.

Solar System


Ali-Dib, M., Marsset, M., Wong, M., Dbouk, R.; 2021. The Rarity of Very Red Trans-Neptunian
Objects in the Scattered Disk. The Astronomical Journal, Volume 162, Issue 1, id.19, 20 pp.

Ali-Dib, M., Lakhlani, G. 2018b. What is Neptune’s D/H ratio really telling us about its water
abundance? MNRAS, Volume 476, Issue 1, p.1169-1173.

Ali-Dib, M., Mousis, O., Petit, J.-M., Lunine, J. I. 2014c. The Measured Compositions of Uranus
and Neptune from their Formation on the CO Ice Line. ApJ 793, 9.

Lellouch, E., Ali-Dib, M., Jessup, K.-L., Smette, A., K ̈aufl, H.-U., Marchis, F. 2015. Detection and
characterization of Io’s atmosphere from high-resolution 4-μm spectroscopy. Icarus 253, 99-114.

Mousis, O.; Chassefi`ere, E.; Holm, N. G.; Bouquet, A.; Waite, J. H.; Geppert, W. D.; Picaud, S.;
Aikawa, Y.; Ali-Dib, M.; , and 2 colleagues 2015. Methane Clathrates in the Solar System. Astrobi-
ology 15, 308-326.

Mousis, O.; Hueso, R.; Beaulieu, J.-P.; Bouley, S.; Carry, B.; Colas, F.; Klotz, A.; Pellier, C.; Petit,
J.-M.; Rousselot, P.; Ali-Dib, M., and 49 colleagues 2014. Instrumental methods for professional
and amateur collaborations in planetary astronomy. Experimental Astronomy 38, 91-191.

Machine Learning


Ali-Dib, M., et al., (2022). Constraining the turbulent power spectrum of Jupiter from Juno data
with machine learning. In preparation.

Ali-Dib, M., (2022). A machine-generated catalogue of Charon’s craters and implications for the
Kuiper belt. Icarus, in revision.

Ali-Dib, M., Menou, Kristen; Zhu, Chenchong; Hammond, Noah; Jackson, Alan P. (2020). Auto-
mated crater shape retrieval using weakly-supervised deep learning. Icarus, Volume 345, article id.
113749. arXiv.

Maccio, A. V., Ali-Dib, M., Vulanovic, P., Al Noori, H., Walter, F., Krieger, N., Buck, T. (2022).
Using Artificial Intelligence and real galaxy images to constrain parameters in galaxy formation sim-
ulations. MNRAS, in press. arXiv.

Silburt, A., Ali-Dib, M., Zhu, C., Jackson, A. et al. (2019). Lunar Crater Identification via Deep
Learning. Icarus, Volume 317, p. 27-38 arXiv1.

Tamayo, D.; Silburt, A.; Valencia, D.; Menou, K.; Ali-Dib, M.; and 7 colleagues (2016). A Machine
Learns to Predict the Stability of Tightly Packed Planetary Systems. ApJ 832, L22. arXiv.