University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy Robert Jedicke Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1992 jedicke@ifa.hawaii.edu Pan-STARRS Asteroids and Comets (Near-Earth, Main Belt, Distant) High-Energy Particle Physics Go to the IfA home page

Publications

Referreed Publications

An improved Near Earth Object orbit and size distribution model.
Granvik, M., Morbidelli, A., Bottke, B., Jedicke, R., et al. (2013). in preparation for Icarus.

Main belt asteroid absolute magnitudes and slope parameters from Pan-STARRS 1 observations.
Veres, P, Jedicke, R., Wainscoat, R., Denneau, L., (2013). in preparation for Icarus.

Detecting Earth's Temporarily Captured Natural Satellites
Bolin, B., Jedicke, R., Granvik, M., Wainscoat, R. J., Chyba, M., Vauballion, J., Brown, P., (2013). In preparation for Icarus.

Observational limits on the production rate of tidally disrupted Near Earth Object families
Schunova, E., Jedicke, R., Walsh, K., Granvik, M. (2013). in preparation for Icarus.

Main Belt Asteroid mass determination using Next Generation Sky Surveys
Granvik, M., Jedicke, R., Denneau, L. and PS1 Colleagues (2013). in preparation for Icarus.

Time-Minimal Orbital Transfers to Temporarily-Captured Natural Earth Satellites
Chyba, M., Patterson, G., Picot, G., Granvik, M.,, Jedicke, R., Vaubaillon, J. (2013). in revision for a special issue of the "Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization" (JIMO) titled "Computational Methods for Optimization and Control".

Testing Accuracy and Precision of Existing Photometry Algorithms for Moving Targets
Sonnett, S., Meech, K., Jedicke, R., Bus, S., Tonry, J., and Hainaut, O. (2013). in revision for PASP.

The Pan-STARRS1 Moving Object Processing System.
Denneau, L, Jedicke, R., Wainscoat, R., et al (2013). accepted for publication in PASP.

Improved asteroid astrometry and photometry with trail fitting
Veres, P, Jedicke, R., Wainscoat, R., Denneau, L. and Holman, M. (2012). PASP, Vol. 124, Issue 921, pp. 1197-1207.

Revising the age for the Baptistina asteroid family using WISE/NEOWISE data
Masiero, J.R., A. K. Mainzer, T. Grav, J. M. Bauer, Jedicke, R. (2012). AJ, Vol. 759, Issue 1, Article ID. 14.

Searching for the first Near-Earth Object family
Schunova, E., Granvik, M., Jedicke, R., Gronchi, G., Wainscoat, R., Abe, S. (2012). Icarus, Vol. 220, Issue 2., p. 1050-1063.

Identification of known objects in solar system surveys
Andrea Milani, Zoran Knezevic, Davide Farnocchia, Fabrizio Bernardi, Jedicke, R., Larry Denneau, Richard J. Wainscoat, William Burgett, Tommy Grav, Nick Kaiser, Eugene Magnier, Paul A. Price. (2012). Icarus 220, 114-123.

Characterizing Subpopulations within the near-Earth Objects with NEOWISE: Preliminary Results.
Mainzer, A.; Grav, T.; Masiero, J.; Bauer, J.; McMillan, R. S.; Giorgini, J.; Spahr, T.; Cutri, R. M.; Tholen, D. J.;, Jedicke, R.; Walker, R.; Wright, E.; Nugent, C. R. (2012). The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 752, 110.

Discovery of Main-belt Comet P/2006 VW139 by Pan-STARRS1
Hsieh, Henry H.; Yang, Bin; Haghighipour, Nader; Kaluna, Heather M.; Fitzsimmons, Alan; Denneau, Larry; Novakov, Bojan; Jedicke, Robert; Wainscoat, Richard J.; Armstrong, James D.; Duddy, Samuel R.; Lowry, Stephen C.; Trujillo, Chadwick A.; Micheli, Marco; Keane, Jacqueline V.; Urban, Laurie; Riesen, Timm; Meech, Karen J.; Abe, Shinsuke; Cheng, Yu-Chi; Chen, Wen-Ping; Granvik, Mikael; Grav, Tommy; Ip, Wing-Huen; Kinoshita, Daisuke; Kleyna, Jan; Lacerda, Pedro; Lister, Tim; Milani, Andrea; Tholen, David J.; Veres, Peter; Lisse, Carey M.; Kelley, Michael S.; Fernandez, Yanga R.; Bhatt, Bhuwan C.; Sahu, Devendra K.; Kaiser, Nick; Chambers, K. C.; Hodapp, Klaus W.; Magnier, Eugene A.; Price, Paul A.; Tonry, John L. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 748, Issue 1, article id. L15 (2012)..

Observational and Dynamical Characterization of Main-Belt Comet P/2010 R2 (La Sagra)
Henry H. Hsieh, Bin Yang, Nader Haghighipour, Bojan Novakovic, Robert Jedicke, Richard J. Wainscoat, Larry Denneau, Shinsuke Abe, Wen-Ping Chen, Alan Fitzsimmons, Mikael Granvik, Tommy Grav, Wing Ip, Heather M. Kaluna, Daisuke Kinoshita, Jan Kleyna, Matthew M. Knight, Pedro Lacerda, Carey M. Lisse, Eric Maclennan, Karen J. Meech, Marco Micheli, Andrea Milani, Jana Pittichova, Eva Schunova, David J. Tholen, Lawrence H. Wasserman, William S. Burgett, K. C. Chambers, Jim N. Heasley, N. Kaiser, Eugene A. Magnier, Jeffrey S. Morgan, Paul A. Price, Uffe G. Jorgensen, Martin Dominik, Tobias Hinse, Kailash Sahu, Colin Snodgrass, Granvik, M., , Vauballion, J. (2012). The Astronomical Journal 143, p. 104.

The population of natural Earth satellites
Granvik, M., Vauballion, J., Jedicke, R. (2012). Icarus, Volume 218, Issue 1, p. 262-277.

NEOWISE Observations of Near-Earth Objects: Preliminary Results
Mainzer, A.; Grav, T.; Bauer, J.; Masiero, J.; McMillan, R. S.; Cutri, R. M.; Walker, R.; Wright, E.; Eisenhardt, P.; Tholen, D. J.; and 27 coauthors including Jedicke, R. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 743, Issue 2, article id. 156 (2011).

Limits on the size and orbit distribution of main belt comets
Sonnett, S., Kleyna, J., Jedicke, R., Masiero, J. (2011). Icarus, Volume 215, Issue 2, p. 534-546..

The Pan-STARRS Synthetic Solar System Model: A Tool for Testing and Efficiency Determination of the Moving Object Processing System
Grav, T., Jedicke, R., Denneau, L., Holman, M., Spahr, T. B., Chesley, S. (2011). Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 123, issue 902, pp.423-447.

Preliminary Results from NEOWISE: An Enhancement to the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer for Solar System Science
Mainzer, A.; Bauer, J.; Grav, T.; Masiero, J.; Cutri, R. M.; Dailey, J.; Eisenhardt, P.; McMillan, R. S.; Wright, E.; Walker, R.; Jedicke, R.; Spahr, T.; Tholen, D.; Alles, R.; Beck, R.; Brandenburg, H.; Conrow, T.; Evans, T.; Fowler, J.; Jarrett, T.; Marsh, K.; Masci, F.; McCallon, H.; Wheelock, S.; Wittman, M.; Wyatt, P.; DeBaun, E.; Elliott, G.; Elsbury, D.; Gautier, T., IV; Gomillion, S.; Leisawitz, D.; Maleszewski, C.; Micheli, M.; Wilkins, A.. (2011). accepted by ApJ.

Asteroid age distributions determined by space weathering and collisional evolution models
Willman, M., Jedicke, R.. (2011). Icarus 211, Issue 1, p. 504-510

GALEX and Pan-STARRS1 Discovery of SN IIP 2010aq: The First Few Days After Shock Breakout in a Red Supergiant Star
Gezari, S., and 36 colleagues (2010). The Astrophysical Journal Letters Vol. 720, Issue 1, pp. L77-L81.

Using the youngest asteroid clusters to constrain the space weathering and gardening rate on S-complex asteroids.
Willman, M., Jedicke, R., Moskovitz, N., Nesvorny, D., Vokrouhlicky, D., and Mothe-Diniz, T. (2010). Icarus 208, 758-772.

The Thousand Asteroid Light Curve Survey
Masiero, J., Jedicke, R., Durech, J., Gwyn, S., Denneau, L., Larsen, J. (2009). Icarus 204, 145-171.

Detection of Earth impacting asteroids with the next generation all-sky surveys
Veres, P., Jedicke, R., Wainscoat, R., Granvik, M., Chesley, S., Abe, S., Denneau, L., Grav, T. (2009). Icarus 203, 472-485.

On the asteroid belt's orbital and size distribution
Brett J. Gladman, Donald R. Davis, Carol Neese, Robert Jedicke, Gareth Williams, J.J. Kavelaars, Jean-Marc Petit, Hans Scholl, Matthew Holman, Ben Warrington, Gil Esquerdo and Pasquale Tricarico (2009). Icarus 202, 104-118.

A Spectroscopically Unique Main Belt Asteroid: 10537 (1991 RY16)
Moskovitz, N., Lawrence, S., Jedicke, R., Willman, M., Bus, S.J., Gaidos, E., Haghighipour. (2008). ApJ Vol. 682, pp. L57-L60.

The Orbit and Size Distribution of Small Solar System Objects orbiting the Sun interior to the Earth's Orbit
Zavodny, M., Jedicke, R., Beshore, E. C., Bernardi, F., Larson, S.. (2008). Icarus, Volume 198, Issue 2, p. 284-293.

The Distribution of Basaltic Asteroids in the Main Belt
Moskovitz, N., Jedicke, R., Gaidos, E., Willman, M., Nesvorny, D., Fevig, R., Ivezic, Z. (2008). Icarus 198, 77-90.

Redetermination of the space weathering rate using spectra of Iannini asteroid family members
Willman, M., Jedicke, R., Nesvorny, D., Moskovitz, N., Ivezic, Z., Fevig, R. (2008). Icarus, 195, 663-673.

Topocentric Orbit Determination: Algorithms for the Next Generation Surveys
Milani, A., Gronchi, G. F., Farnocchia, D., Knezevic, Z., Jedicke, R., Denneau, L., Pierfederici, F. (2008). Icarus, 195, 474-492.

Efficient intra- and inter-night linking of asteroid detections using kd-trees
Kubica, J., Denneau, L., Grav, T., Heasley, J., Jedicke, R., Masiero, J., Milani, A., Moore, A., Tholen, D., Wainscoat, R. J. (2007). Icarus 189, 151-168.

The Campo Imperatore Near Earth Object Survey (CINEOS)
Andrea Boattini, Germano D'Abramo, Giovanni B. Valsecchi, Andrea Carusi, Andrea Di Paola, Fabrizio Bernardi, Robert Jedicke, Alan W. Harris, Elisabetta Dotto, Fiore De Luise, Davide Perna and Riccardo Leoni. (2007) Earth Moon and Planets 100, 259-271.

The Search for Distant Objects in the Solar System Using Spacewatch
Larsen, Jeffrey A.; Roe, Eric S.; Albert, C. Elise; Descour, Anne S.; McMillan, Robert S.; Gleason, Arianna E.; Jedicke, Robert; Block, Miwa; Bressi, Terrence H.; Cochran, Kim C.; Gehrels, Tom; Montani, Joseph L.; Perry, Marcus L.; Read, Michael T.; Scotti, James V.; Tubbiolo, Andrew F. (2007) Astronomical Journal 133, 1247-1270.

The Next Decade Of Solar System Discovery With Pan-STARRS
R. Jedicke, E. A. Magnier, N. Kaiser, K. C. Chambers
to be published in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 236 (2006).

Physical models of asteroids from sparse photometric data
Durech, J., P. Scheirich, M. Kaasalainen, T. Grav, R. Jedicke, L. Denneau
to be published in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 236 (2006).

New Generation Optical/Infrared Telescopes
A. Tokunaga, R. Jedicke.
in The Encyclopedia of the Solar System, 2nd edition (Eds. L. McFAdden, P.R. Weissman, T.V. Johnson) (2007).

Asteroid models from the Pan-STARRS photometry
Durech, J., Grav, T., R. Jedicke, Kaasalainen, M., Denneau, L.
Earth, Moon, and Planets (2006), Volume 97, Issue 3-4, pp. 179-187.

The Size-Frequency Distribution of Dormant Jupiter Family Comets
Whitman, K., A. Morbidelli, and R. Jedicke
Icarus 83, 101 (2006).

Variable KD-Tree Algorithms for Spatial Pattern Search and Discovery
J. Kubica, J. Masiero, A. Moore, R. Jedicke, and A. Connolly.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2005.

A Multiple Tree Algorithm for the Efficient Association of Asteroid Observations
J. Kubica, A. Moore, A. Connolly and R. Jedicke.
In The Eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 2005. pp. 138-146.

Identifying Near Earth Object Families
Fu, H., R. Jedicke, D. D. Durda, R. Fevig, and J. V. Scotti
Icarus 178 (2005) 434-449.

Linking the collisional history of the main asteroid belt to its dynamical excitation and depletion.
W. F. Bottke, Jr., D. D. Durda, D. Nesvorny, R. Jedicke, A. Morbidelli, D. Vokrouhlicky, H. Levison
Icarus 179 (2005), 63-94.

The fossilized size distribution of the main asteroid belt
. Bottke, W. F., Durda, D. D., Nesvorny, D., Jedicke, R., Morbidelli, A., Vokrouhlicky, D., and Levison, H.
Icarus 175 (2005), 111-140.

Evidence for Asteroid Space Weathering from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
D. Nesvorny, R. Jedicke, R. J. Whiteley and Zeljko Ivezic
Icarus 173, pp. 132-152 (2005)

An age-colour relationship for main belt S-complex asteroids
R. Jedicke, D. Nesvorny, R. J. Whiteley, Z. Ivezic and M. Juric
Nature 429 (6989), pp. 275-277 (2004)

Design of the Pan-STARRS telescopes.
Hodapp, K. W., and 30 colleagues 2004.
Astronomische Nachrichten325, 636-642.

A strategy for finding Near Earth Objects with the SDSS telescope
Sean N. Raymond, Oliver J. Fraser, Arti Garg, Suzanne L. Hawley, Robert Jedicke, Gajus Miknaitis, Thomas Quinn, Constance M. Rockosi, Christopher W. Stubbs, Scott F. Anderson, Craig J. Hogan, Zeljko Ivezic, Robert H. Lupton, Andrew A. West, Howard Brewington, J. Brinkmann, Michael Harvanek, Scot J. Kleinman, Jurek Krzesinski, Dan Long, Eric H. Neilsen, Peter R. Newman, Atsuko Nitta, Stephanie A. Snedden
AJ 127, pp. 2978-2987 (2004)

Asymmetries in the Production of L⁰ in 250-GeV/c p^±, K^± and p-Nucleon Interactions
Fermilab E769 Collaboration
Physics Letters B, 559, 179-186 (2003)

Observational Selection Effects in Asteroid Surveys and Estimates of Asteroid Population Sizes
R. Jedicke, J. Larsen, and T. Spahr
In Asteroids III (W. Bottke et al., eds.), University of Arizona, Tucson, p. 71 (2003)

Earth and Space-based NEO Survey Simulations: Prospects for Achieving the Spaceguard Goal
R. Jedicke, A. Morbidelli, T. Spahr, J-M. Petit, W. F. Bottke Jr.
Icarus, 161, 17-33 (2003)

The Mass Suicide of Nearly-Isotropic Comets
H. F. Levison, A. Morbidelli, R. Jedicke, P. A. Wiegert, W. F. Bottke, Jr., and L. Dones
Science, 296, #5576, 2212-2215 (2002)

From Magnitudes to Diameters: The Albedo Distribution of Near Earth Objects and the Earth Collision Hazard
A. Morbidelli, R. Jedicke, W. F. Bottke, P. Michel, and E. F. Tedesco
Icarus, 158, 329-342 (2002)

Debiased Orbital and Absolute Magnitude Distribution of the Near-Earth Objects.
Bottke, W. F., A. Morbidelli, R. Jedicke, J. Petit, H. F. Levison, P. Michel, and T. S. Metcalfe
Icarus, 156, 399-433 (2002)

The Spacewatch Wide-Area Survey for Bright Centaurs and Trans-Neptunian Objects
J. A. Larsen, A. E. Gleason, N. M. Danzl, A. S. Descour, R. S. McMillan, T. Gehrels, R. Jedicke, J. L. Montani, and J. V. Scotti
Astronomical Journal, 121, 562-579 (2001)

Understanding the Distribution of Near-Earth Asteroids
W. F. Bottke, R. Jedicke, A. Morbidelli, J. Petit, and B. Gladman
Science, 288, 2190-2194 (June 2000)

Collisional Models and Scaling Laws: A New Interpretation of the Shape of the Main-Belt Asteroid Size Distribution
D.D. Durda, R. Greenberg, and R. Jedicke
Icarus, 135, 431-440 (1998)

The Orbital and Absolute Magnitude Distributions of Main Belt Asteroids
R. Jedicke and T. S. Metcalfe
Icarus, 131, 245-260 (1998)

Detection of Near Earth Asteroids Based Upon Their Rates of Motion
R. Jedicke and J. D. Herron
Icarus, 127, 494-507 (1997)

Atomic Mass Dependence of c^- and c⁺ Production in Central 250-GeV p-Nucleon Interactions
G. A. Alves, et al.
Physical Review D, 56, Issue 9, pp. 6003-6005 (1997)

Feynman-x and Transverse Momentum Dependence of D Meson Production
in 250 GeV p, K, and p Interactions with Nuclei
G. A. Alves, et al.
Physical Review Letters, 77, 2392-2395 (1996)

Detection of Near Earth Asteroids Based Upon Their Rates of Motion
R. Jedicke
Astronomical Journal, 111, 970-982 (1996)

The Population of Near-Earth Objects Discovered by Spacewatch
T. Gehrels and R. Jedicke
Earth, Moon, and Planets, 71, 233-242, Kluwer Publishing, ed. H. Rickman and M.J. Valtonen (1995)

Enhanced Leading Particle Production of D^± and D*^± in 250 GeV p^± -Nucleon Interactions
G. A. Alves, et al.
Physical Review Letters, 72, 812-815; ERRATUM-ibid.72, 1946 (1994)

D*^± Production in 250 GeV p^± N Interactions
G. A. Alves, et al.
Physical Review D, 49, 4317-4320 (1994)

Atomic Mass Dependence of D^± and D⁰, anti-D⁰ Production in 250 GeV p^±-Nucleon Interactions
G. A. Alves, et al.
Physical Review Letters, 70, 722-725 (1993)

Feynman-x and Transverse Momentum Dependence of D^± and D⁰, anti-D⁰ production in 250 GeV p^--Nucleon Interactions
G. A. Alves, et al.
Physical Review Letters, 69, 3147-3150 (1992)

Use of a Transition Radiation Detector in a Beam of High Energy Hadrons
D. Errede, et al.
Nucl. Inst. and Meth., A309, 386 (1991)

Neutrino Detectors as Early Warning Devices for Supernovae
R. Jedicke
J. Roy. Astron. Soc. Can., 83, No. 2 (1989)

Invited & Other Publications

The Coming Giant Sky Patrols.
Jedicke, P and R. Jedicke.
In Sky & Telescope Magazine, September 2008, p. 30 (2008)

Asteroid Spectroscopy.
Willman, M., Moskovitz, N., and R. Jedicke (2008).
Zenit 35, 2 pp. 66-70 (Netherlands)

SEEING RED.
Jedicke, P and R. Jedicke.
In Astronomy Magazine, June 2006, pp. 36-41 (2006)

Efficiently Identifying Close Track/Observation Pairs in Continuous Timed Data.
J. Kubica, A. Moore, A. Connolly, and R. Jedicke.
In SPIE 2005

Recent progress in interpreting the nature of the near-Earth object population.
Bottke, W.F. Jr., A. Morbidelli and R. Jedicke.
In Mitigation of Hazardous Impacts Due to Asteroids and Comets,
p. 1-21, Michael J. Belton ed., Cambridge Univ. Press. (2004)

Planetary Science: Intermediate Impact Factors
R. Jedicke
Nature, 420, 273-274 (2002)

The Next Giant Leap: Human Exploration and Utilization of Near-Earth Objects
The Future of Solar System Exploration (2003-2013), edited by Mark V. Sykes
T. D. Jones, D. R. Davis, D. D. Durda, R.Farquhar, L. Gefert, K. Hack, W. K. Hartmann, R. Jedicke, et al.
ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 272, 141-154 (2002)

Observations of Small Solar System Objects with Spacewatch
J.V. Scotti and R. Jedicke
In Dynamics, Ephemerides and Astrometry in the Solar System,
Proceedings of IAU Symposium 172,
S. Ferraz-Mello, et al. (eds.), 389-398 (1995)

Recent Instrumental Studies of the Spacewatch Telescope
D. Rabinowitz, and R. Jedicke
Proceedings of the Vulcano Workshop on NEA detection (1995)

CCD Scanning for the Discovery of Comets and Asteroids
T. Gehrels, R. Jedicke, R. S. McMillan, M. L. Perry, J. V. Scotti, and T. Bressi
Proceedings of the Planetary Defense Workshop, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, CONF-9505266, p. 125-127 (1995)

Automated CCD Scanning for Near Earth Asteroids
R. Jedicke
In New Developments in Array Technology and Applications,
Proceedings of IAU Symposium 167
A.G. Davis Philip, et al. (eds.), 157-165 (1994)

E769 - Hadronic Production of Charm
R. Jedicke
Physics in Canada, July 1989, 105-115 (1989)