Publications (7)
P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS): An Active Centaur in Imminent Transition to the Jupiter Family
Jordan Steckloff, Gal Sarid, Kathryn Volk +5
The recently discovered object P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS) was initially thought to be a Jupiter Trojan asteroid, until dynamical studies and the appearance of persistent cometary activity…
Physical Characterization of the December 2017 Outburst of the Centaur 174P/Echeclus
Theodore Kareta, Benjamin Sharkey, John Noonan +4
The Centaurs are the small solar system bodies intermediate between the active inner solar system Jupiter Family Comets and their inactive progenitors in the trans-Neptunian region…
The LUVOIR Ultraviolet Multi-Object Spectrograph (LUMOS): Instrument Definition and Design
Kevin France, Brian Fleming, Garrett West +12
The Large Ultraviolet / Optical / Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR) is one of four large mission concepts currently undergoing community study for consideration by the 2020 Astronomy and…
Characterization of a symmetric-facet dual-ruled grating for spatial heterodyne spectroscopy
Cole Meyer, Joanne Flores, Jason Corliss +1
Dual-bandpass spatial heterodyne spectrometers (DB-SHS) enable simultaneous high-resolution measurements of widely separated passbands, providing powerful diagnostics of astrophysi…
Strength In Diversity: Small Bodies as the Most Important Objects in Planetary Sciences
Laura M. Woodney, Andrew S. Rivkin, Walter Harris +9
Small bodies, the unaccreted leftovers of planetary formation, are often mistaken for the leftovers of planetary science in the sense that they are everything else after the planet…
Optical alignment of contamination-sensitive Far-Ultraviolet spectrographs for Aspera SmallSat mission
Aafaque R. Khan, Erika Hamden, Haeun Chung +48
Aspera is a NASA Astrophysics Pioneers SmallSat mission designed to study diffuse OVI emission from the warm-hot phase gas in the halos of nearby galaxies. Its payload consists of…