Publications (25)
HST and Spitzer Observations of the HD 207129 Debris Ring
John Krist, Karl Stapelfeldt, Geoffrey Bryden +10
A debris ring around the star HD 207129 (G0V; d = 16.0 pc) has been imaged in scattered visible light with the ACS coronagraph on the Hubble Space Telescope and in thermal emission…
Planetary Science Goals for the Spitzer Warm Era
Carey Lisse, Mark Sykes, David Trilling +6
The overarching goal of planetary astronomy is to deduce how the present collection of objects found in our Solar System were formed from the original material present in the proto…
Enabling Deep All-Sky Searches of Outer Solar System Objects
Mario JuriÄ, R. Lynne Jones, J. Bryce Kalmbach +12
A foundational goal of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is to map the Solar System small body populations that provide key windows into understanding of its formation and…
Asteroid lightcurves and detection, shape, and size biases in large-scale surveys
Samuel Navarro-Meza, Erin Aadland, David Trilling
Most asteroids are somewhat elongated and have non-zero lightcurve amplitudes. Such asteroids can be detected in large-scale sky surveys even if their mean magnitudes are fainter t…
Removing Aliases in Time-Series Photometry
Daniel Kramer, Michael Gowanlock, David Trilling +2
Ground-based, all-sky astronomical surveys are imposed with an inevitable day-night cadence that can introduce aliases in period-finding methods. We examined four different methods…
A Deep and Wide Twilight Survey for Asteroids Interior to Earth and Venus
Scott S. Sheppard, David Tholen, Petr Pokorny +17
We are conducting a survey using twilight time on the Dark Energy Camera with the Blanco 4m telescope in Chile to look for objects interior to Earth's and Venus' orbits. To date we…
Unbiased Inclination Distributions for Objects in the Kuiper Belt
Amanda Gulbis, Jim Elliot, Elisabeth Adams +4
Using data from the Deep Ecliptic Survey (DES), we investigate the inclination distributions of objects in the Kuiper Belt. We present a derivation for observational bias removal a…
Distinguishing multicellular life on exoplanets by testing Earth as an exoplanet
Christopher E. Doughty, Andrew Abraham, James Windsor +4
Can multicellular life be distinguished from single cellular life on an exoplanet? We hypothesize that abundant upright photosynthetic multicellular life (trees) will cast shadows…
Visible spectroscopy from the Mission Accessible Near-Earth Object Survey (MANOS): Taxonomic dependence on asteroid size
Maxime Devogele, Nicholas Moskovitz, Audrey Thirouin +14
The Mission Accessible Near-Earth Object Survey (MANOS) aims to observe and characterize small (mean absolute magnitude H ~ 25 mag) Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) that are accessible by…
Science-Driven Optimization of the LSST Observing Strategy
LSST Science Collaboration, Phil Marshall, Timo Anguita +102
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is designed to provide an unprecedented optical imaging dataset that will support investigations of our Solar System, Galaxy and Universe, acros…
Low-Cost Access to the Deep, High-Cadence Sky: the Argus Optical Array
Nicholas M. Law, Hank Corbett, Nathan W. Galliher +16
New mass-produced, wide-field, small-aperture telescopes have the potential to revolutionize ground-based astronomy by greatly reducing the cost of collecting area. In this paper,…
Spitzer's Solar System studies of asteroids, planets and the zodiacal cloud
David Trilling, Carey Lisse, Dale P. Cruikshank +13
In its 16 years of scientific measurements, the Spitzer Space Telescope performed a number of ground-breaking infrared measurements of Solar System objects. In this second of two p…
A common origin for dynamically associated near-Earth asteroid pairs
Nicholas Moskovitz, Petr Fatka, Davide Farnocchia +19
Though pairs of dynamically associated asteroids in the Main Belt have been identified and studied for over a decade, very few pair systems have been identified in the near-Earth a…
Spitzer's Solar System Science Legacy: Studies of the Relics of Solar System Formation & Evolution. Part 1 - Comets, Centaurs, & Kuiper Belt Objects
Carey Lisse, James Bauer, Dale Cruikshank +15
In its 16 years of scientific measurements, the Spitzer Space Telescope performed a number of ground breaking and key infrared measurements of Solar System objects near and far. Ta…
Far Infrared Prperties of M Dwarfs
Thomas. N. Gautier, G. H. Rieke, John Stansberry +9
We report the mid- and far-infrared properties of nearby M dwarfs. Spitzer/MIPS measurements were obtained for a sample of 62 stars at 24 um, with subsamples of 41 and 20 stars obs…
Physical Properties of Kuiper Belt and Centaur Objects: Constraints from Spitzer Space Telescope
John Stansberry, Will Grundy, Mike Brown +4
Detecting heat from minor planets in the outer solar system is challenging, yet it is the most efficient means for constraining the albedos and sizes of Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs)…
24-micron Detections of Disks around Very Low-mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in IC 348: Grain Growth/Settling and Inner Holes?
James Muzerolle, Lucia Adame, Paola D'Alessio +11
We present observations of six late-type members of the young cluster IC 348 detected at 24 microns with the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer(MIPS). At least four of the ob…
First Results from the rapid-response spectrophotometric characterization of Near-Earth Objects
Samuel Navarro-Meza, Michael Mommert, David Trilling +6
As part of our multi-observatory, multi-filter campaign, we present \rmi color observations of 82 Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) obtained with the RATIR instrument on the 1.5m robotic t…
Better support for collaborations preparing for large-scale projects: the case study of the LSST Science Collaborations Astro2020 APC White Paper
Federica B. Bianco, Manda Banerji, John Bochanski +17
Through the lens of the LSST Science Collaborations' experience, this paper advocates for new and improved ways to fund large, complex collaborations at the interface of data scien…
The Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey: Four years of photometry
Audrey Thirouin, Nicholas A. Moskovitz, Richard P. Binzel +10
Over 4.5 years, the Mission Accessible Near-Earth Object Survey (MANOS) assembled 228 Near-Earth Object (NEO) lightcurves. We report rotational lightcurves for 82 NEOs, constraints…
Maximizing Science in the Era of LSST: A Community-Based Study of Needed US Capabilities
Joan Najita, Beth Willman, Douglas P. Finkbeiner +48
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be a discovery machine for the astronomy and physics communities, revealing astrophysical phenomena from the Solar System to the out…
The Science Case for an Extended Spitzer Mission
Jennifer C. Yee, Giovanni G. Fazio, Robert Benjamin +45
Although the final observations of the Spitzer Warm Mission are currently scheduled for March 2019, it can continue operations through the end of the decade with no loss of photome…
Jupiter Co-Orbital Comet P/2023 V6 (PANSTARRS): Orbital History and Modern Activity State
Theodore Kareta, John W. Noonan, Kathryn Volk +2
The discovery of the transient Jupiter co-orbital comet P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS) drew significant interest. Not only will LD2 transition between being a Centaur and a Jupiter Family Come…
Solar system Deep Time-Surveys of atmospheres, surfaces, and rings
Michael H. Wong, Richard Cartwright, Nancy Chanover +20
Imaging and resolved spectroscopy reveal varying environmental conditions in our dynamic solar system. Many key advances have focused on how these conditions change over time. Obse…
Astro2020 Science White Paper: Triggered High-Priority Observations of Dynamic Solar System Phenomena
Nancy Chanover, Michael H. Wong, Thomas Greathouse +30
Unexpected dynamic phenomena have surprised solar system observers in the past and have led to important discoveries about solar system workings. Observations at the initial stages…