SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Probing the icy shell structure of ocean worlds with gravity-topography admittance

Akiba, R., Ermakov, A.I., and Militzer, B.  

Submitted to Planetary Science Journal, 2021, arXiv 2105.02790.

The science case for spacecraft exploration of the Uranian satellites: Candidate ocean worlds in an ice giant system.

Cartwright, R.J., Beddingfield, C.B., Nordheim, T.A., Elder, C.M., Castillo-Rogez, J.C., Neveu, M., Bramson, A.M., Sori, M.M., Buratti, B.J., Pappalardo, R.T., Roser, J.E., Cohen, I.J., Leonard, E.J., Ermakov, A.I., Showalter, M.R., Grundy, W.M., Turtle, E.P., and Hofstadter, M.D.

in press, Planetary Science Journal, 2021.

Internal structure of Vesta and Ceres

Ermakov, A.I. and Raymond, C.A. In Book: Vesta and Ceres: Insights into the Dawn of the Solar System, Editors: Marchi, S., Raymond, C.A., Russell, C.T., 2021.

A recipe for geophysical exploration of Enceladus

Ermakov, A.I., Park, R.S., Roa, J, Castillo Rogez, J.C., Keane, J.T., Nimmo, F., Kite, E., et al. In review, Planetary Science Journal, 2021, arXiv:2008.02887.

Requirements for gravity measurements on the anticipated Artemis III mission

James, P.B., Ermakov, A.I., and Michael, M.M. arXiv:2009.03514, 2020.

Impact-driven mobilization of deep crustal brines on dwarf planet Ceres

Raymond, C.A., Ermakov, A.I., Castillo Rogez, J.C., Marchi, S., Johnson, B.C., Hesse, M.A., Scully, J.E.C., Buczkowski, D.L., Sizemore, H.G., Schenk, P.M., et al. Nature Astronomy, 4(8):741–747, 2020.

Evidence of non-uniform crust of Ceres from Dawn’s high-resolution gravity data

Park, R.S., Konopliv, A.S., Ermakov, A.I., Castillo-Rogez, J.C., Fu, R.R., Hughson, K.H.G., Prettyman, T.H., Raymond, C.A., Scully, J.E.C., Sizemore, H.G., et al. Nature Astronomy, 4(8):748–755, 2020.

Gravitational signatures of atmospheric thermal tides on Venus.

Bills, B.G., Navarro, T., Schubert, G., Ermakov, A.I., and Górski, K.M. Icarus, page 113568, 2019.

Simple models of error spectra for planetary gravitational potentials as obtained from a variety of measurement configurations

Bills, B.G. and Ermakov, A.I. 

from a variety of measurement configurations. Planetary and Space Science, page 104744, 2019.

Surface roughness and gravitational slope distributions of Vesta and Ceres

Ermakov, A.I., Kreslavsky, M.A., Scully, J.E.C., Hughson, K.H.G., and Park, R.S.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 123, 2018.

Power laws of topography and gravity spectra of the Solar System bodies. 

Ermakov, A.I., Park, R.S., and Bills, B.G. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 123(8):2038–2064, 2018.

Constraints on Ceres’ internal structure and evolution from its shape and gravity measured by the  Dawn spacecraft.

Ermakov, A.I., Fu, R.R., Castillo-Rogez, J.C., Raymond, C.A., Park, R.S., Preusker, F., Russell, C.T., Smith, D.E., and Zuber, M.T. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 122(11):2267–

2293, 2017.

Ceres’s obliquity history and its implications for the permanently shadowed regions

Ermakov, A.I., Mazarico, E., Schroder, S.E., Carsenty, U., Schorghofer, N., Preusker, F., Raymond, C.A., Russell, C.T., and Zuber, M.T. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(6):2652–2661, 2017.

Constraints on Vesta’s interior structure using gravity and shape models from the Dawn mission.

Ermakov, A.I., Zuber, M.T., Smith, D.E., Raymond, C.A., Balmino, G., Fu, R.R., and Ivanov, B.A. Icarus, 240:146–160, 2014.