Matthew Belyakov

First Author Publications:

  1. Belyakov, M., Davis, M. R., Wong, I., Batygin, K., and Brown, M.E. (2026) “Nereid as a Regular Satellite of Neptune”. Science Advances. Vol. 12, Issue 21.
  2. Belyakov*, M., Wong* I., et al. (2026) “The Volatile Inventory of 3I/ATLAS as seen with JWST/MIRI”. ApJL, 1001, L11 (*Authors Contributed Equally)
  3. Belyakov, M. and Batygin, K. (2025) “The Perturbation Theory Approach to Stability in the Scattered Disk.” Icarus, 443, 116773
  4. Belyakov, M., et al. (2025) “Palomar and Apache Point Spectrophotometry of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS.” RNAAS, 9, 194
  5. Belyakov, M., Brown, M. E. (2025) “Saturnian Irregular Satellites as a Probe of Kuiper Belt Surface Evolution.” PSJ, 6(4), 97
  6. Belyakov, M., Brown, M. E., and Al-Kibbi, A. (2024). “The Trojan-like colors of low-perihelion Kuiper Belt Objects.” PSJ, 5(9), 193.
  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”. PSJ, 5(5), 119.
  8. Belyakov, M., Bernardinelli P. H., and Brown M. E. (2022), “Limits on the Detection of Planet Nine in the Dark Energy Survey”. AJ, 163, 216.

Co-author publications:

  1. Rahatgaonkar R. et al. (inc. Belyakov, M.) (2025). “VLT observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS II. From quiescence to glow: Dramatic rise of Ni I emission and incipient CN outgassing at large heliocentric distances”. ApJL, 995, L34.
  2. B.J. Holler, et al. (inc. Belyakov, M.) (2025). “A Descriptive Taxonomic Nomenclature for Intermediate-sized Trans-Neptunian Object Spectra“. Research Notes of the AAS 9 (9), 241
  3. Brown, M. E., Trumbo, S.K., Belyakov, M., Davis, M.R., Pandya, A., (2025). “A JWST Study of CO2 on the Satellites of Saturn.” PSJ 6(7), 180.
  4. Bolin*, B.,Belyakov*, M., Fremling*, C., Graham, M.J., et al. (2025). “Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS: discovery and physical description”, MNRAS, (*Authors Contributed Equally)
  5. Bolin, B.T., Fremling, C., Belyakov, M. et al. (2025). “Keck and Gemini Characterization of Hayabusa2 Rendezvous Target 1998 KY26“, AJ, 169, 303.
  6. Davis, M.R., Brown, M. E., Trumbo, S.K., Belyakov, M., (2025). Spectroscopic Mapping of Callisto with HST/STIS and Implications for its Surface Composition.” PSJ, 6(7), 161.
  7. Brown, M. E., Wong, I., and Belyakov, M. (2025). “JWST Near-infrared Spectroscopy of High-albedo Jupiter Trojans: A New Surface Type in the Trojan Belt.” PSJ, 6(1), 22.
  8. Dacunha T., Belyakov M., Adhikari S., Shin T., Goldstein S., and Jain B. (2022), “Connecting galaxy evolution in clusters with their radial profiles and phase space distribution: results from the IllustrisTNG hydrodynamical simulations“. MNRAS, Vol. 512, Issue 3, 4378–4393.
  9. Bernardinelli P. H. et al. (inc. Belyakov, M.) (2020) “Trans-Neptunian objects in the first four years of the Dark Energy Survey”. ApJS, 247, 32.