Recent Publications

Primitive Object Volatile Explorer (PrOVE) — Waypoints and Opportunistic Deep Space Missions to Comets

March 1, 2018 | Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Author(s): Hewagama, T., Aslam, S., Clark, P., et. al
UMD Author(s): Jessica M Sunshine

The 105-Month Swift-BAT All-sky Hard X-Ray Survey

March 1, 2018 | The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Author(s): Kyuseok Oh, Michael Koss, Craig B. Markwardt, et. al
UMD Author(s): Richard Mushotzky

NASA's DART Mission to Didymos: The Effect of Shape Deformation of the Primary and Ellipticity of the Secondary on Post-Impact Orbital Period

March 1, 2018 | Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Author(s): Hirabayashi, M., Davis, A. B., Nadiu, S. P., et. al
UMD Author(s): Derek Charles Richardson

The Character of South Pole‐Aitken Basin: Patterns of Surface and Subsurface Composition

March 1, 2018 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Author(s): D. P. Moriarty, III, C. M. Pieters
UMD Author(s): Daniel Patrick Moriarty III

Hitomi X-ray studies of giant radio pulses from the Crab pulsar

March 1, 2018 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Author(s): Hitomi Collaboration, Aharonian, Felix, Akamatsu, Hiroki, et. al
UMD Author(s): Christopher S. Reynolds

Temperature structure in the Perseus cluster core observed with Hitomi

March 1, 2018 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Author(s): Hitomi Collaboration, Aharonian, Felix, Akamatsu, Hiroki, et. al
UMD Author(s): Richard Mushotzky, Christopher S. Reynolds

The Lunar WATER Mission: A PSDS3 Feasibility Study of a Solar-Electric Propulsion Small Sat Mission to Characterize the Water on the Moon

March 1, 2018 | Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Author(s): Hibbitts, C. A., Clyde, B., Blewett, D., et. al
UMD Author(s): Jessica M Sunshine

A fast-evolving luminous transient discovered by K2/Kepler

March 1, 2018 | Nature Astronomy
Author(s): Rest, A., Garnavich, P. M., Khatami, D., et. al
UMD Author(s): Richard Mushotzky

Numerical Simulations of Asteroid Reaccumulation: Improving the SPH to N-Body Handoff Using Alpha Shapes

March 1, 2018 | Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Author(s): Ballouz, R. -L., Walsh, K. J., Richardson, D. C., et. al
UMD Author(s): Derek Charles Richardson

Near- and Extended-Edge X-Ray-Absorption Fine-Structure Spectroscopy Using Ultrafast Coherent High-Order Harmonic Supercontinua

March 1, 2018 | Physical Review Letters
Author(s): Popmintchev, Dimitar, Galloway, Benjamin R., Chen, Ming-Chang, et. al
UMD Author(s): Lia Hankla

Hitomi observations of the LMC SNR N 132 D: Highly redshifted X-ray emission from iron ejecta

March 1, 2018 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Author(s): Hitomi Collaboration, Aharonian, Felix, Akamatsu, Hiroki, et. al
UMD Author(s): Christopher S. Reynolds

Exoplanet Diversity in the Era of Space-based Direct Imaging Missions

March 1, 2018 | arXiv e-prints
Author(s): Kopparapu, Ravi, Hebrard, Eric, Belikov, Rus, et. al
UMD Author(s): Joe P. Renaud

Detection of variable VHE γ-ray emission from the extra-galactic γ-ray binary LMC P3

March 1, 2018
Author(s): HESS Collaboration, Abdalla, H., Abramowski, A., et. al
UMD Author(s): Zorawar Wadiasingh

Cumulative probability for the sum of exponentially-distributed variables

March 1, 2018 | arXiv e-prints
Author(s): Chirenti, Cecilia, Miller, M. Coleman
UMD Author(s): Michael Coleman Miller

Metal Deficiency in Two Massive Dead Galaxies at z ̃ 2

March 1, 2018 | The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Morishita, T., Abramson, L. E., Treu, T., et. al

Atmospheric gas dynamics in the Perseus cluster observed with Hitomi

The Asteroid Probe Experiment (APEX): Seismology at 99942 Apophis

March 1, 2018 | Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Author(s): Schmerr, N. C., Lekic, V., Mautino, A., et. al
UMD Author(s): Derek Charles Richardson

Search for thermal X-ray features from the Crab nebula with the Hitomi soft X-ray spectrometer

March 1, 2018 | Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Author(s): Hitomi Collaboration, Aharonian, Felix, Akamatsu, Hiroki, et. al
UMD Author(s): Christopher S. Reynolds

APEX: Asteroid Probe Experiment Mission

March 1, 2018 | Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Author(s): Plescia, J. B., Barnouin, O., Paul, M., et. al
UMD Author(s): Derek Charles Richardson

Relevance of tidal heating on large TNOs

March 1, 2018 | Icarus
Author(s): Prabal Saxena, Joe P. Renaud, Wade G. Henning, et. al
UMD Author(s): Joe P. Renaud

Atomic data and spectral modeling constraints from high-resolution X-ray observations of the Perseus cluster with Hitomi

The jet/wind outflow in Centaurus A: a local laboratory for AGN feedback

March 1, 2018 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Author(s): McKinley, B., Tingay, S.~J., Carretti, E., et. al
UMD Author(s): Sylvain Veilleux

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART): Overview and Update

March 1, 2018 | Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Author(s): Rivkin, A. S., Cheng, A. F., Stickle, A. M., et. al
UMD Author(s): Derek Charles Richardson

Asteroid (93) Minerva: Spectral Evidence of Primitive, Amorphous Materials, and Implications

March 1, 2018 | Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
Author(s): McAdam, M. M., Sunshine, J. M., Howard, K. T., et. al
UMD Author(s): Jessica M Sunshine

Ultrafast outflow in tidal disruption event ASASSN-14li

March 1, 2018 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Author(s): Kara, E., Dai, L., Reynolds, C. S., et. al
UMD Author(s): Christopher S. Reynolds