Publications

Selected Publications (see my CV for a complete list)

M. Vick, Y. Su, and D. Lai, "High-eccentricity Migration with Disk-induced Spin-Orbit Misalignment: A Preference for Perpendicular Hot Jupiters," 2023 ApJ Letters, 943, 2.

M. Vick, M. MacLeod, D.Lai, and A. Loeb, "Tidal Dissipation Impact on the Eccentric Onset of Common Envelope Phases in Massive Binary Star Systems," 2021 MNRAS, 503, 5569.

M. Vick & D. Lai, "Tidal Evoluation of Eccentric Binaries Driven by Convective Turbulent Viscosity," 2020 MNRAS, 496, 3767.

M. Vick & D. Lai, "Tidal Effects in in Eccentric Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries,"  2019 PRD,  100,  063001.

M. MacLeod, M. Vick, D. Lai,  & J. M. Stone, "Polygram Stars: Resonant Tidal Excitation of Fundamental Oscillation Modes in Asynchronous Stellar Coalescence," 2019 ApJ, 877, 28.

M. Vick, D. Lai, & K. R. Anderson, "Chaotic Tides in Migrating Gas Giants: Forming Hot and Transient Warm Jupiters via Lidov-Kozai Migration," 2019 MNRAS, 484, 5645.

M. Vick  & D. Lai, "Dynamical Tides in Highly Eccentric Binaries: Chaos, Dissipation, and Quasi-Steady State," 2018 MNRAS, 476, 482.

M. Vick, D. Lai, & J. Fuller,  "Tidal Dissipation and Evolution of White Dwarfs Around Massive Black Holes: an Eccentric Path to Tidal Disruption," 2017 MNRAS, 468, 2296.