Ryleigh Davis

Planetary Science Ph.D. Candidate

Publications

  1. Davis, M.R., Belyakov, M.E., Wong, I., Milby, Z., and Brown, M.E. (2025). “Triton’s Wake: Neptune’s Destroyed Inner Moons Reveal Icy Satellite Interior Compositions” (in prep)
  2. Belyakov, M.E., Davis, M.R., Wong, I., Batygin, K., and Brown, M.E. (2025). “Nereid as a Regular Satellite of Neptune” (in prep)
  3. Brown, M.E, Trumbo, S.K., Belyakov, M., Davis, M.R., and Pandya, A. (2025). “Deuterated water on the satellites of Saturn”. The Planetary Science Journal (submitted).
  4. Brown, M.E., Trumbo, S.K., Belyakov, M., Davis, M.R., and Pandya, A. (2025). “A JWST study of CO2 on the satellites of Saturn”, The Planetary Science Journal (in press)
  5. Belyakov, M. et al. (inc. Davis, M.R.) (2025). “Palomar and Apache Point Spectrophotometry of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS”, Research Notes of the AAS, 9, 194.
  6. Davis, M.R., Trumbo, S.K., Brown, M.E., and Belyakov, M. (2025). “Spectroscopic Mapping of Callisto with HST/STIS and Implications for its Surface Composition”, The Planetary Science Journal, 6, 161.
  7. Belyakov, M., Davis, M.R., Milby, Z., Wong, I., and Brown, M.E. (2024). “JWST Spectrophotometry of the Small Satellites of Uranus and Neptune”. The Planetary Science Journal, 5(5), 119.
  8. Davis, M.R. and Brown, M.E. (2024). “Pwyll and Manannán Craters as a Laboratory for Constraining Irradiation Timescales on Europa”. The Planetary Science Journal, 5, 107.
  9. Davis, M.R., Brown, M.E., & Trumbo, S.K. (2023). “The Spatial Distribution of the Unidentified 2.07 μm Absorption Feature on Europa and Implications for its Origin”. The Planetary Science Journal, 4(8), 148.
  10. Kunimoto, M., Vanderburg, A., Huang, C.X., Davis, M.R., et al. (2023). “TOI-4010: A System of Three Large Short-period Planets with a Massive Long-period Companion”. The Astronomical Journal, 166(1), 7.
  11. Trumbo, S.K., Davis, M.R., Cassese, B., and Brown, M. E. (2022). “Spectroscopic Mapping of Io’s Surface with HST/STIS: SO2 Frost, Sulfur Allotropes, and Large-scale Compositional Patterns”, The Planetary Science Journal, 3(12), 272.
  12. Davis, M.R., Meier, R.M., Cooper, J.F., and Loeffler, M.J. (2021). “The contribution of electrons to the sputter-produced O2 exosphere on Europa” The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 908(2), L53.
  13. Fitzpatrick (Davis), M.R. (2020). “Low Energy Electron Sputtering of Water Ice” (M.Sc. Thesis, Northern Arizona University).
  14. Zellem, R.T. et al. (inc. Fitzpatrick (Davis), M.R.) (2015). “XO-2b: A hot jupiter with a variable host star that potentially affects its measured transit depth”, The Astrophysical Journal, 810(1), 11.