Recent Publications

Life Detection Knowledge Base: A Community Tool for Knowledge Management and Representation

July 1, 2025 | Astrobiology
Author(s): Andrew Pohorille, Graham Lau, Stanislaw Gliniewicz, et. al
UMD Author(s): Svetlana Shkolyar

Surface activity of H2O and CO2 on comet 103P/Hartley2 derived from EPOXI/HRI images

July 1, 2025 | Icarus
Author(s): Yinsi Shou, Michael Combi, Lori Feaga, et. al
UMD Author(s): Lori M. Feaga

Dissecting Reionisation with the Cosmic Star Formation and AGN Luminosity History

July 1, 2025 | arXiv e-prints
Author(s): D'Silva, Jordan C. J., Driver, Simon P., Lagos, Claudia D. P., et. al
UMD Author(s): Massimo Ricotti

Structural Biosignatures—A Category of Potential Biosignatures in the Life Detection Knowledge Base

July 1, 2025 | Astrobiology
Author(s): Svetlana Shkolyar, Leslie Bebout, Jennifer G. Blank, et. al
UMD Author(s): Svetlana Shkolyar

Simulating dust transport during lunar landings: Sensitivity to lander characteristics and modeled physics

July 1, 2025 | Physics of Fluids
Author(s): C. Sunday, P. Prem, C. M. Hartzell
UMD Author(s): Christine M Hartzell

Introduction to the Life Detection Knowledge Base Project

June 26, 2025 | Astrobiology
Author(s): Tori M. Hoehler, Alfonso Davila, Niki Parenteau, et. al
UMD Author(s): Marc Neveu, Svetlana Shkolyar

Siderite and ferric oxyhydroxides imply interlinked carbon, iron, and halogen cycles on Mars

June 24, 2025 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Author(s): Kaushik Mitra, Lauren A. Malesky, Michael T. Thorpe, et. al
UMD Author(s): Michael Terrance Thorpe

The First Detection of Molecular Activity in the Largest Known Oort Cloud Comet: ALMA Imaging of C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli–Bernstein) at 16.6 au from the Sun

June 20, 2025 | The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): Nathan X. Roth, Stefanie N. Milam, Martin A. Cordiner, et. al
UMD Author(s): Michael S Kelley

Out on a Limb: The Signatures of East–West Asymmetries in Transmission Spectra from General Circulation Models

June 20, 2025 | The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Anastasia Triantafillides, Arjun B. Savel, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, et. al
UMD Author(s): Eliza Kempton

Towards modelling AR Sco: calibration – reproducing high-energy pulsar emission and testing convergence to Aristotelian electrodynamics

June 14, 2025 | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Author(s): L Du Plessis, C Venter, A K Harding, et. al
UMD Author(s): Zorawar Wadiasingh

The Origin of the Cluster of Local Interstellar Clouds

June 10, 2025 | The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Catherine Zucker, Seth Redfield, Sara Starecheski, et. al
UMD Author(s): Sara Starecheski

XRISM Reveals a Remnant Torus in the Low-luminosity AGN M81*

June 1, 2025 | The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): Jon M. Miller, Ehud Behar, Hisamitsu Awaki, et. al
UMD Author(s): Richard Mushotzky

X-Ray Polarization of the Magnetar 1E 1841‑045

June 1, 2025 | The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Stewart, Rachael, Younes, George A., Harding, Alice K., et. al
UMD Author(s): Zorawar Wadiasingh

Computation of magnetohydrodynamic equilibria with Voigt regularization

June 1, 2025 | Physics of Plasmas
Author(s): Yi-Min Huang, Justin Kin Jun Hew, Andrew Brown, et. al
UMD Author(s): Yi-Min Huang

Halfway to the Peak: Ice Absorption Bands at z ≈ 0.5 with JWST MIRI/MRS

June 1, 2025 | The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Anna Sajina, Alexandra Pope, Henrik Spoon, et. al
UMD Author(s): Sylvain Veilleux

High‐Ti Melts From the Taurus‐Littrow Valley (TLV). A Product of Volcanism or Impact? An ANGSA Investigation Using the Station 3 Double Drive Tube 73001/73002

June 1, 2025 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Author(s): C. K. Shearer, S. B. Simon, T. M. Erickson, et. al
UMD Author(s): Daniel Patrick Moriarty III

Examples of QPOs in Gamma-Ray Bursts: discoveries and interpretation

June 1, 2025 | 246th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
Author(s): Chirenti, Cecilia, Dichiara, Simone, Lien, Amy
UMD Author(s): Cecilia Chirenti, Michael Coleman Miller

Integrated Seismic Refraction, Reflection, and Rayleigh Wave Imaging at Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico: Implications for Lunar Subsurface Exploration

June 1, 2025 | Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
Author(s): Jingchuan Wang, Nicholas C. Schmerr, Ernest R. Bell, Jr., et. al
UMD Author(s): Patrick Whelley, Stephen Scheidt

Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation on Sub-Neptune Exoplanet Hazes through Laboratory Experiments

June 1, 2025 | The Planetary Science Journal
Author(s): Lori Huseby, Sarah E. Moran, Neil Pearson, et. al
UMD Author(s): Sarah E. Moran

A Multiwavelength Technique for Estimating Galaxy Cluster Mass Accretion Rates

June 1, 2025 | The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): John Soltis, Michelle Ntampaka, Benedikt Diemer, et. al
UMD Author(s): Benedikt Diemer

A JWST Study of the Remarkable Oort Cloud Comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS)

June 1, 2025 | The Planetary Science Journal
Author(s): Charles E. Woodward, Dominique Bockélee-Morvan, David E. Harker, et. al
UMD Author(s): Michael S Kelley

The ALMA-CRISTAL Survey: Weak Evidence for Star-formation-driven Outflows in z ∼ 5 Main-sequence Galaxies

June 1, 2025 | The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Jack E. Birkin, Justin S. Spilker, Rodrigo Herrera-Camus, et. al
UMD Author(s): Alberto Daniel Bolatto

VizieR Online Data Catalog: MUSE NGC 253 planetary nebulae (Congiu+, 2025)

June 1, 2025 | VizieR Online Data Catalog
Author(s): Congiu, E., Scheuermann, F., Kreckel, K., et. al
UMD Author(s): Serena A. Cronin

PEARLS: Twenty-One Transients Found in the Three-Epoch NIRCam Observations in the Continuous Viewing Zone of the James Webb Space Telescope

June 1, 2025 | arXiv e-prints
Author(s): Yan, Haojing, Sun, Bangzheng, Ma, Zhiyuan, et. al
UMD Author(s): Massimo Ricotti

Characterization of the DART Ejecta Using Computer Modeling of the Ground-based and HST Photopolarimetric Data

June 1, 2025 | The Planetary Science Journal
Author(s): Ludmilla Kolokolova, Johannes Markkanen, Quentin Ludet, et. al
UMD Author(s): Ludmilla Kolokolova