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most citedMomentum Transfer from the DART Mission Kinetic Impact on Asteroid Dimorphos

229 citations · 1.1k across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Toward the Italian Astronomical Community's Contribution to HWO: Science, Technology, and Instrument Concepts

A. Fontana, F. Annibali, N. Antonietti +101

This paper summarizes the interest of the Italian astronomical community in the possible participation in the development of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). It is largely b…

astro-ph.EP2026

The Origins of Planets for ArieL (OPAL) Key Science Project: the end-to-end planet formation campaign for the ESA space mission Ariel

Danae Polychroni, Diego Turrini, Romolo Politi +7

The growing body of atmospheric observations of exoplanets from space and ground-based facilities showcases how the great diversity of the planetary population is not limited to th…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 7 cited

High-Speed Boulders and the Debris Field in DART Ejecta

Tony L. Farnham, Jessica M. Sunshine, Masatoshi Hirabayashi +44

On 26 September 2022 the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with Dimorphos, the moon of the near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos, in a full-scale demonstratio…

astro-ph.EP2025

Conceptual framework for the application of deep neural networks to surface composition reconstruction from Mercury's exospheric data

Adrian Kazakov, Anna Milillo, Alessandro Mura +19

Surface information derived from exospheric measurements at planetary bodies complements surface mapping provided by dedicated imagers, offering critical insights into surface rele…

astro-ph.EP2025★ 7 cited

HD 163296 and its Giant Planets: Creation of Exo-comets, Interstellar Objects and Transport of Volatile Material

D. Polychroni, D. Turrini, S. Ivanovski +14

The birth of giant planets in protoplanetary disks is known to alter the structure and evolution of the disk environment, but most of our knowledge focuses on its effects on the ob…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

Impact of vegetation albedo on the habitability of Earth-like exoplanets

Erica Bisesi, Giuseppe Murante, Antonello Provenzale +8

Vegetation can modify the planetary surface albedo via the Charney mechanism, as plants are usually darker than the bare surface of the continents. We updated ESTM (Earth-like Surf…