Publications (4)
Properties of outer solar system pebbles during planetesimal formation from meteor observations
Peter Jenniskens, Paul R. Estrada, Stuart Pilorz +42
In the late stages of accretion leading up to the formation of planetesimals, particles grew to pebbles the size of 1-mm to tens of cm. That is the same size range that dominates t…
Astronomy Career Profiles from the AAS Newsletter Archives
Travis Metcalfe, Leila Belkora, Liam McDaid +8
This is a collection of articles that were originally published in the Newsletter of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) between May 2008 and September 2011 by the Committee on…
SOAR/Goodman Spectroscopic Assessment of Candidate Counterparts of the LIGO-Virgo Event GW190814
Douglas Tucker, Matthew Wiesner, Sahar Allam +140
On 2019 August 14 at 21:10:39 UTC, the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration (LVC) detected a possible neutron star-black hole merger (NSBH), the first ever identified. An extensive search for…
Supernova Shock Breakout from a Red Supergiant
Kevin Schawinski, Stephen Justham, Christian Wolf +21
Massive stars undergo a violent death when the supply of nuclear fuel in their cores is exhausted, resulting in a catastrophic "core-collapse" supernova. Such events are usually on…