Recent Publications: Alan Stern

• A SOHO-Search for vulcanoids, D.D. Durda, S.A. Stern, J.Wm. Parker, H.F. Levison, & D.M. Hassler. Icarus, in press, 2000
• Collision rates in the present-day Kuiper Belt and centaur regions: applications to surface activation and modification on comets, KBOs and Pluto-Charon. D.D. Durda, & S.A. Stern. Icarus, 145: 220, 2000
• ALICE--The Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer Aboard the Rosetta Orbiter. Slater, D.C., J. Scherrer, J.-L. Bertaux, M.F. A'Hearn, P.D. Feldman, M.C. Festou &
  S.A. Stern. ESA Special Publication on Rosetta (G. Schwehm, Ed.), in press, 2000
• SWUIS-A: A Versatile UV/VIS/IR Imaging System for Airborne Astronomy and Aeronomy Research. D.D. Durda, S.A. Stern, W. Tomlinson, D.C. Slater & F. Vilas. Proc. SPIE, in
  press, 2000
• The Discovery of Argon in Comet Hale-Bopp. S.A. Stern, D.C. Slater, M.C. Festou, J. Parker, R. Gladstone, M.F. A'Hearn, &
  E. Wilkinson. ApJ. Lett., 544: L169-L172, 2000 (Figure 1 Figure 2)
• Rapid collisional evolution of comets during the formation of the Oort cloud, S.A. Stern & P.R. Weissman, Nature, 409: 589-591, 2001
• Regarding the criteria for planethood and proposed classification schemes, S.A. Stern & H.F. Levison, IAU Proceedings, submitted, 2000 (Figure 1 Figure 2)
• Collisional evolution in the vulcanoid region: implications for present-day population constraints, S.A. Stern & D.D. Durda, Icarus, 145: 360-370, 2000 (Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7)
• Triton's Surface Age and Impactor Population Revisited in Light of Kuiper Belt Fluxes: Evidence for Small Kuiper Belt Objects and Recent Geological Activity, S.A. Stern & W.B. McKinnon, The Astronomical Journal, 119: 945-952, 2000 Figure 1 Figure 2
• Evolutionary Processes Affecting Comets in the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt, S.A. Stern, in IAU volume Comets in Space and Time (M.F. A'Hearn, Ed.), in press
• SWUIS-A compact astronomical UV/VIS/IR imaging system for manned space-based platforms including the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station, D.C. Slater, S.A. Stern, W.M. Tomlinson, D.E. Mahoney, J.Wm. Parker, P.M. Tamblyn, W.B. Colwell, D.D. Durda, P.R. Weissman & F. Vilas, IAA proceedings, (presented at Space Technology and Applications International Forum (STAIF-99) meeting, Jan. 31-Feb. 4, 1999, Albuquerque, NM), in press
• The Potential for Planetary Science from the Pole, S.A. Stern & D.C. Slater, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, in press
• The Lunar Atmosphere: History, Status, and Current Problems, S.A. Stern, Reviews of Geophysics, 37(4):453-491, 1999
• Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1) near 2.3 AU Post-Perihelion: SWUIS Measurements of the H₂O and Dust Production, S.A. Stern, W.B. Colwell, M.C. Festou, P.M. Tamblyn, & J.W. Parker, The Astronomical Journal, 118:1120-1125, 1999 (Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3)
• Forging a new solar system, S.A. Stern, Astronomy, 40-45, March 1999
• Pluto and Charon, S.A. Stern & R.V. Yelle, in The Encyclopedia of Planetary Science (T.V. Johnson, P.R. Weissman, & L.A. McFadden, Eds.), Academic Press, 1999
• Studies of comets in the ultraviolet: the past and the future. S.A. Stern, Space Science Reviews, 90: 355-361, 1999
• A Search for New Species in Io's Atmosphere, C.Y. Na, L.M. Trafton, E.S. Barker, & S.A. Stern, Icarus, 131: 445-453, 1998 (Figures)
• ALICE-An Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer for the Rosetta Orbiter, S.A. Stern, D.C. Slater, W. Gibson, J. Scherrer, M. A'Hearn, J.L. Bertaux, P.D. Feldman & M.C. Festou, Adv. Space Res. 21 (11), 1517-1525, 1998.
• Pluto and the Kuiper Disk, S.A. Stern, Solar System Ices, (B. Schmitt, et al., Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1998
• 2060 Chiron: Evidence for Activity Near Aphelion, S.J. Bus, M.F. A'Hearn, E. Bowell, & S.A. Stern Icarus, submitted
• The Calibration of the HST Kuiper Belt Object Search: Setting the Record Straight, A.L. Cochran, H.F. Levison, P.M. Tamblyn, S.A. Stern, & M. Duncan, ApJ Lett, submitted
• HST mid-ultraviolet spectroscopy of 46P/Wirtanen during its approach to perihelion in 1996-1997, S.A Stern, J.W. Parker, M.C. Festou, M.F. A'Hearn, P.D. Feldman, R. Schulz, G. Schwehm, & D.C. Slater, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 335, L30-L36, 1998
• The Sun's Kuiper Belt and Its Surrounding Disk, S.A. Stern, in Cosmic Origins: Galaxies, Stars, Planets, & Life (J.M. Shull, C.E. Woodward, & H.A. Thronson, Eds.), PASP Conference Series, submitted (Plot 1 Plot 2 Plot 3 Plot 4)
• The Heliocentric Evolution of Key Species in the Distantly-Active Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp), M. Womack, M.C. Festou, and S.A. Stern, Astronomical Journal, 114, 2789-2794, 1997
• On The Origin of Pluto, Charon, and the Pluto-Charon Binary, S.A. Stern, W.B. McKinnon, & J.I. Lunine, in Pluto and Charon (S.A. Stern & D.J. Tholen, Eds.), University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 756 pp, 605-664, 1997 (Figure 1a Figure 1b Figure 2 Figure 4 Figure 5a Figure 5b Figure 7a Figure 7b Figure 8)
• Modern Lightweight UV Spectrographs for In Situ Studies of the Exosphere and Photo-Ion Population About Mercury, D.C. Slater, T.H. Morgan, & S.A. Stern, PSS, 45, 101-112, 1997
• Collisional Erosion in the Primordial Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt and the Generation of the 30-50 Au Kuiper Gap, S.A. Stern & J.E. Colwell, The Astrophysical Journal, 490, 879, 1997 (Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3)
• Accretion in the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt: Forming 100-1000 km Radius Bodies at 30 Au and Beyond, S.A. Stern & J.E. Cowell, The Astronomical Journal, 114, 841, 1997 (Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7 Figure 8)
• Muron's Boy, A Nature News and Views Obituary for Clyde Tombaugh, Stern, Nature, 385, 778, 1997
• Ultraviolet Observations of Chiron with the HST/FOS: Examining a Centaur's Gray Matter, J.W. Parker, S.A. Stern, et al., The Astronomical Journal, 113(5), 1899, 1997
• An HST Search for Magnesium in the Lunar Atmosphere, Stern, S.A., J.W. Parker, T.H. Morgan, B.C. Flynn, D. Hunten, A. Sprague, M. Mendillo, & M.C. Festou, Icarus, 127, 523, 1997 (Figure 1 Figure 2)
• The Activity and Size of the Nucleus of Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1), H.A.Weaver, et al., Science, 275, 1900, 1997 (Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Table A)
• HST High-Resolution Images and Maps of Pluto, S.A. Stern, M.W. Buie, & L.M. Trafton, The Astronomical Journal, 113(2), 827, 1997 (Table 1 Table 2 Figures)
• Millimeter-Wavelength Spectroscopy of CO, HCN, H₂CO, and CH₃OH in C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake), M. Womack, S.A. Stern, & M.C. Festou, Planetary & Space Science, 45, 711, 1997 (Tables)
• A Spectroscopic Survey of Metallic Species Abundances in the Lunar Atmosphere , B.C. Flynn & S.A. Stern, Icarus, 124(2), 530, 1997 (Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3)
• On the Collisional Environment, Accretion Time Scales, and Architecture of the Massive, Primordial Kuiper Belt, S.A. Stern, The Astronomical Journal, 112, 1203, 1996 (Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7a Figure 7b Figure 8 Figure 9)
• Chiron and the Centaurs: Escapees from the Kuiper Belt, S.A. Stern & H. Campins, Nature 382, 507, 1996 (Figure 1 Figure 2)
• The 825-1110 ÅEUV Spectrum of Venus, Stern, et al., Icarus, 122, 200, 1996
• The Historical Development and Status of Kuiper Disk Studies, ASP Conference Series, 107, Completing the Inventory of the Solar System, (T. Rettig, and J.M. Hahn, Eds.), 209-232, 1996
• Detection of CO in 2060 Chiron, M. Womack & S.A. Stern, unpublished, 1996. (Figure 1 Figure 2)
• The Discovery of Halley-sized Kuiper Belt Objects Using HST, Cochran, Levison, Stern, & Duncan, The Astrophysical Journal, 455, 342, 1995
• Collisional Timescales in the Kuiper Disk and Their Implications, Stern, The Astronomical Journal, 110(2), 856,1995
• Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrograph Sounding Rocket Payload: Recent Modifications for Planetary Observations in the EUV/FUV, Slater, Stern, et al., SPIE, 2518, 211, 1995
• Rotationally-Resolved Studies of the Mid-Ultraviolet Spectrum of Triton II: HSTSurface and Atmospheric Results, Stern, Trafton, & Flynn, The Astronomical Journal, 109(6), 2855, 1995
• Dynamical and Observational Constraints on Satellites in the Inner Pluto-Charon System, Stern, Parker, ..., & Levison, Icarus, 108, 234, 1994

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