Leslie A. Young
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Fun Stuff |
A Pluto globe to assemble: postscript file or gif file . |
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Useful Stuff |
IDL routines: direct access to individual files or tar file . Catalog of stars in Pluto's field, 2006-2009, measured by the USNO with the UCAC2 camera: Directory with the catalog and description of the file |
Current Research |
New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission. Jupiter's thermal structure and gravity-wave heating. Stellar occultations. Compositon of the atmospheres of Pluto and Triton. Triton monitoring |
Some Publications |
W.M. Grundy, L.A. Young, J.R. Spencer, R.E. Johnson, E.F. Young, and
M.W. Buie, 2006. Distributions of H2O and CO2 ices on Ariel, Umbriel,
Titania, and Oberon from IRTF/SpeX observations. Submitted to
Icarus.
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pdf .
Olkin, C. B., E. F. Young, L. A. Young, W. Grundy, B. Schmitt, A. Tokunaga, T. Owen, T. Roush and H. Terada 2006. Pluto's spectrum from 1.0 to 4.2 microm: implications for surface properties. Submitted to Astron. J. Download pdf . A. J. Steffl, M. J. Mutchler, H. A. Weaver, S. A. Stern, D. D. Durda, D. Terrell, W. J. Merline, L. A. Young, E. F. Young, M. W. Buie, and J. R. Spencer 2006. New Constraints on Additional Satellites of the Pluto System. Submitted to A. J. . Download pdf . Marc W. Buie, William M. Grundy, Eliot F. Young, Leslie A. Young, and S. Alan Stern 2006. Orbits and photometry of Pluto's satellites: Charon, S/2005 P1 and S/2005 P2, Astron. J. 132, 290-298. Download pdf . Stern, S. A., Weaver, H. A., Steffl, A. J., Mutchler, M. J., Merline, W. J., Buie, M. W., Young, E. F., Young, L. A., Spencer, J. R. 2006. A giant impact origin for Pluto's small moons and satellite multiplicity in the Kuiper belt. Nature 439, 946-948. Download pdf . Weaver, H. A., Stern, S. A., Mutchler, M. J., Steffl, A. J., Buie, M. W., Merline, W. J., Spencer, J. R., Young, E. F., Young, L. A. 2006. Discovery of two new satellites of Pluto. Nature 439, 943-945. Download pdf . L. A. Young, R. V. Yelle, R. E. Young, A. Seiff, and D. B. Kirk 2005. “Gravity waves in Jupiter's stratosphere, as measured by the Galileo ASI experiment.” Icarus, 173, 185-199. Download pdf . Grundy, W. M. and Young, L. A. 2004. “ Near-infrared spectral monitoring of Triton with IRTF/SpeX I: Establishing a baseline for rotational variability. ” Icarus, 172, 455-565. Download pdf . J. Spencer, M. Buie, L. Young, Y. Guo, and A. Stern 2003. “ Finding KBO Flyby Targets for New Horizons ” Earth, Moon and Planets 92, 483-491 Download pdf . Grundy, W. M., Young, L. A., and Young, E. F. 2003. “Discovery of CO2 ice and leading-trailing spectral asymmetry on the Uranian satellite Ariel.” Icarus 162, 222-229. Download pdf . L. A. Young, A. S. Bosh, Marc Buie, J. L. Elliot, Larry Wasserman 2001. “Uranus after solstice: results from the 1998 November 6 occultation.” Icarus 153, 236-247. Download pdf . L. A. Young, J. C. Cook, R. V. Yelle. and E. F. Young 2001. “Upper limits on gaseous CO at Pluto and Triton from high-resolution near-IR spectroscopy.” Icarus 153, 148-156. Download pdf L. A. Young, S. A. Stern 2001. “UV Observations of Triton in 1999 with HST/STIS. 2150-3180 Angstrom Spectroscopy and Disk-Integrated Photometry.” Astronomical Journal, 122, 449-456. Download postscript or pdf R. V. Yelle, C. A. Griffith, L. A. Young 2001. “Structure of the Jovian Stratospere at the Galileo probe entry site.” Icarus, 152, 331-346. Download PDF . J. L. Elliot, M. J. Person, S. W. McDonald, M. W. Buie, E. W. Dunham, R. L. Millis, R. A. Nye, C. B. Olkin, L. H. Wasserman, L. A. Young, W. B. Hubbard, R. Hill, H. J. Reitsema, J. M. Pasachoff, T. H. McConnochie, B. A. Babcock, R. C. Stone, and P. Francis 2000. “The prediction and observation of the 1997 July 18 stellar occulation by Triton: More evidence for distortion and increasing pressure in Triton's atmosphere.” Icarus 148, 347-369. L. A. Young, J. L. Elliot, A. Tokunaga, C. de Bergh, T. Owen 1997. “Detection of Gaseous Methane on Pluto.” Icarus 127, 258-262. L. A. Young, R. V. Yelle, R. Young, A. Seiff, D. Kirk 1997. “Gravity Waves in Jupiter's thermosphere.” Science 276, 108-111. Download PDF A. Seiff, D. B. Kirk, T. C. D. Knight, L. A. Young, F. S. Milos, E. Venkatapathy, J. D. Mihalov, R. C. Blanshard, R. E. Young, G. Schubert 1997. “Thermal Structure of Jupiter's Upper Atmosphere Derived from the Galileo Probe.” Science 276, 102-104. R. V. Yelle, L. A. Young, R. J. Vervack, R. Young, L. Pfister, B. R. Sandel 1996. “Structure of Jupiter's upper atmosphere: Predictions for Galileo.” JGR 101, 2149-2161. Download pdf
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Presentations |
"Pluto: the next decade of discovery ", presented at the 2005 Division of Planetary Science Conference in Cambridge, England.. "Once and future Pluto: what we know now, what the puzzles are, and what we can learn from future observations and the Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission. ", presented at the Institute for Astronomy in Manoa, January 3, 2003. Latex of abstract and PDF or PS of slides for "Triton's atmosphere in 1989: new lab data, new profiles," Leslie Young (SwRI), Glenn Stark (Wellesley) and Ron Vervack (JHU/APL). Presented at the 2002 Division of Planetary Science Conference in Burmingham, AL. PS of poster for "Wavelet Analysis of Jovian Stratospheric Temperatures," Leslie Young (SwRI). Presented at the 2001 Division of Planetary Science Conference in New Orleans, LA. Report from the workshop "Global Change on Triton", held during DPS 2000 meeting on Thursday, October 26, organized by Leslie Young (SwRI) and Mike Hicks (JPL). |
External Links |
General planetary: New England Planetary Science, Pluto: , Marc Buie (Lowell Observatory), Fran Bagenal (Univ CO), Welcome to the Planets (JPL), The Nine Planets (Univ AZ), Views of the Solar System Relatives: Eliot Young, Rob Young, Telescopes: Lick, IRTF, Keck, Lowell |
