Portrait of Adeline Gicquel-Brodtke

Adeline Gicquel-Brodtke

Senior Faculty Specialist

Senior Faculty Specialist

626 491 1945
agicquel@umd.edu Physical Sciences Complex

I'm a planetary scientist and my work focuses on small bodies in the Solar System. I have expertise in the development of numerical models and in the acquisition and analysis of infrared, visible, and radio to sub-millimeter data. My main activities are to support efforts at the Planetary Data System (PDS) Small Bodies Node (SBN) to successfully migrate, archive, and preserve large quantities of scientific data for current and future studies. I'm creating data dictionaries for the Rosetta mission and migrate the Rosetta and New Horizons PDS3 datasets to PDS4 standard. My research currently focuses on the jets, outbursts and other activity of gases and dust, which are primarily composed of water. I'm analyzing NEOWISE data to derive the CO+CO2 production rates, which are known to be the most abundant volatiles on comets after water, and the dust production rate. I’m also using complementary ground-based observations to determine the extent to which CO or CO2 is the dominant species in cometary composition.

Research Areas:
Solar System
Research Centers & Collaborations:
Small Bodies Node

Latest Papers

CO and CO2 Productions Rates of Comets Observed by NEOWISE within Year 1 of the Reactivated Mission

| The Planetary Science Journal
Author(s): Adeline Gicquel, James M. Bauer, Emily A. Kramer, et. al
UMD Author(s): Adeline Gicquel-Brodtke, James M. Bauer


NEOWISE Observed CO and CO2 Production Rates of 46P/Wirtanen During the 2018–2019 Apparition*

| The Planetary Science Journal
Author(s): James M. Bauer, Adeline Gicquel, Emily Kramer, et. al
UMD Author(s): Adeline Gicquel-Brodtke, James M. Bauer


THE EVOLUTION OF VOLATILE PRODUCTION IN COMET C/2009 P1 (GARRADD) DURING ITS 2011–2012 APPARITION

| The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): A. Gicquel, S. N. Milam, I. M. Coulson, et. al
UMD Author(s): Adeline Gicquel-Brodtke


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