
“At night astronomers agree.”
PUBLICATIONS
- Matthew Prior -
Journal Publications

2025 Volatile enrichment in low-mass planets: Signatures of past planetary disruption?
M Sucerquia, M Montesinos, AM Agudelo, N Cuello
arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.11693
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2025 Orbital Decay of the Ultra-hot Jupiter TOI-2109b: Tidal Constraints and Transit-timing Analysis
JA Alvarado-Montes, M Sucerquia, JI Zuluaga, C Schwab
The Astrophysical Journal 988 (1), 66
2025 Ionized envelopes around protoplanets and the role of radiative feedback in gas accretion
M Montesinos, J Garrido-Deutelmoser, J Cuadra, M Sucerquia, N Cuello, ...
The Astrophysical Journal 985 (1), 36
2025 Extreme exomoons in WASP-49 Ab: Dynamics and detectability
M Sucerquia, N Cuello
Astronomy & Astrophysics 694, L8
2025 A general polarimetric model for transiting and nontransiting ringed exoplanets
AK Veenstra, JI Zuluaga, JA Alvarado-Montes, M Sucerquia, DM Stam
Astronomy & Astrophysics 693, A310
2025 The missing rings around Solar System moons
M Sucerquia, JA Alvarado-Montes, JI Zuluaga, N Cuello, J Cuadra, ...
Astronomy & Astrophysics 691, A74
2024 Alpha Centauri: Disc Dynamics, Planet Stability, Detectability
N Cuello, M Sucerquia
Universe 10 (2), 64
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2022 The bright side of the light curve: A general photometric model of non-transiting exorings
JI Zuluaga, M Sucerquia, JA Alvarado-Montes
Astronomy and Computing 40, 100623
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2022 Cronomoons: origin, dynamics, and light-curve features of ringed exomoons
M Sucerquia, JA Alvarado-Montes, A Bayo, J Cuadra, N Cuello, ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 512 (1), 1032-1044
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2021 The impact of tidal friction evolution on the orbital decay of ultra-short period planets
JA Alvarado-Montes, M Sucerquia, C García-Carmona, JI Zuluaga, ...
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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2020 - Dust trapping around Lagrangian points in protoplanetary disks
M Montesinos, J Garrido-Deutelmoser, J Olofsson, CA Giuppone, ...
Astronomy & Astrophysics 642, A224
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2020 - Scattered light may reveal the existence of ringed exoplanets
M Sucerquia, JA Alvarado-Montes, JI Zuluaga, M Montesinos, A Bayo
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 496 (1), L85-L90
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2020 - Can close-in giant exoplanets preserve detectable moons?
M Sucerquia, V Ramírez, JA Alvarado-Montes, JI Zuluaga
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 492 (3), 3499-3508
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2019 - Ploonets: formation, evolution, and detectability of tidally detached exomoons
M Sucerquia, JA Alvarado-Montes, JI Zuluaga, N Cuello, C Giuppone
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 489 (Issue 2), Pages 2313–2322
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2019 - Can we predict the impact conditions of meter-sized meteoroids?
JI Zuluaga, PA Cuartas-Restrepo, J Ospina, M Sucerquia
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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2018 - Ploonets: Shadows of a Co-Orbital Transiting Companion
M Sucerquia, J Alvarado, N Cuello, J Zuluaga
Diversis Mundi: The Solar System in an Exoplanetary Context
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2018 - Constraints for Exomoon Detectability via Tidal Migration
V Ramírez, M Sucerquia, J Alvarado, J Zuluaga
Diversis Mundi: The Solar System in an Exoplanetary Context
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JI Zuluaga, O Sánchez-Hernández, M Sucerquia, I Ferrín
The Astronomical Journal 155 (6), 236
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JI Zuluaga, M Sucerquia
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 477 (2), 1970-1983
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2017 - Anomalous light curves of young tilted exorings
M Sucerquia, JA Alvarado-Montes, V Ramírez, JI Zuluaga
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 472 (1), L120-L124
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2017 - The effect of close-in giant planets’ evolution on tidal-induced migration of exomoons
JA Alvarado-Montes, JI Zuluaga, M Sucerquia
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 471 (3), 3019-3027
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PA Cuartas-Restrepo, M Melita, JI Zuluaga, B Portilla-Revelo, M. Sucerquia
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 463 (2), 1592-1604
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2015 - A novel method for identifying exoplanetary rings
JI Zuluaga, DM Kipping, M Sucerquia, JA Alvarado
The Astrophysical Journal Letters 803 (1), L14

Academic Publications
2018 -Doctoral Thesis: Adventures in Pandora's Land: Evolution, behavior and detection of moons and rings around close-in exoplanets
2016 - Master Thesis: An Overview to Some Open Problems in Planetary Sciences
2012 - Bachelor thesis: Ploonets: ¿Pueden los satélites expulsados de los planetas gigantes convertirse en embriones planetarios?
2012 "Lunas y Exolunas ¿posibles lugares para la vida? - Revista Mínima Acción" 2012. p. Exolunas, http://goo.gl/HHhse3
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