Alan Fitzsimmons

Research output

Research output per year 1990 2021

• 119 Article
• 24 Abstract
• 10 Meeting abstract
• 9 Conference contribution
• 17 More
  • 6 Paper
  • 6 Review article
  • 2 Letter
  • 1 Other report
  • 1 Chapter
  • 1 Special issue

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• Conference contribution

  Observational constraints on the catastrophic disruption rate of main-belt asteroids

  Pan-STARRS 1 Science Collaboration (PS1SC), 01 Jul 2014, Asteroids, Comets, Meteors — Book of Abstracts. Muinonen, K., Penttila, A., Granvik, M., Virkki, A., Fedorets, G., Wilkman, O. & Kohout, T. (eds.). University of Helsinki Press, p. 155

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• Spin-state and thermophysical analysis of the near-Earth asteroid (8567) 1996 HW1

  Rożek, A., Lowry, S., Rozitis, B., Wolters, S., Hicks, M., Duddy, S., Fitzsimmons, A., Green, S., Snodgrass, C. & Weissman, P., Jul 2014, Asteroids, Comets, Meteors — Book of Abstracts. Muinonen, K., Penttila, A., Granvik, M., Virkki, A., Fedorets, G., Wilkman, O. & Kohout, T. (eds.). University of Helsinki Press, p. 470 1 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

• The edge of the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt: Stellar encounter, trans-plutonian planet or outer limit of the primordial solar nebula?

  Melita, M. D., Larwood, J., Collander-Brown, S., Fitzsimmons, A., Williams, I. P. & Brunini, A., 01 Jul 2002, European Space Agency Special Publication Issue 500. 500 ed. p. 305-308 4 p. (European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • solar nebula
  • Kuiper belt
  • Planets
  • encounters
  • planets
  5 Citations (Scopus)
• Letter

  On the alignment of debris disks and their host stars' rotation axis -implications for spin-orbit misalignment in exoplanetary systems

  Watson, C., Littlefair, S. P., Diamond, C., Collier Cameron, A., Fitzsimmons, A., Simpson, E., Moulds, V. & Pollacco, D., May 2011, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 413, 1, p. L71-L75 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  File

  • debris
  • misalignment
  • alignment
  • Jupiter
  • orbits
  53 Citations (Scopus)

  161 Downloads (Pure)

• Re-entry and ablation of cometary dust in the impact plumes of Shoemaker-Levy 9

  Fitzsimmons, A., Andrews, P. J., Catchpole, R., Little, J. E., Walton, N. & Williams, I., 29 Feb 1996, In: Nature. 379, 6568, p. 801-804

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  • reentry
  • Jupiter atmosphere
  • plumes
  • ablation
  • ejecta
  7 Citations (Scopus)
• Meeting abstract

  Absolute Magnitudes of Pan-STARRS 1 Asteroids

  Veres, P., Jedicke, R., Denneau, L., Fitzsimmons, A., Bolin, B., Wainscoat, R. & Science Consortium, PS., 01 Oct 2012, In: Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 44, 5, p. 51 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract

  • asteroids
  • catalogs
  • telescopes
  • Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
  • orbital elements

• Absolute Magnitudes of Pan-STARRS PS1 Asteroids

  Veres, P., Jedicke, R., Fitzsimmons, A., Denneau, L., Wainscoat, R., Bolin, B. & PS1SC Collaboration, N. V., 01 Oct 2013, In: Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 45, p. 80 1 p., 208.22.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract

  • asteroids
  • slopes
  • color
  • photometry
  • standard deviation

• Direct Detection of YORP Spin-up on Asteroid (25143) Itokawa and Implications for its Internal Structure

  Lowry, S., Weissman, P. R., Duddy, S. R., Rozitis, B., Fitzsimmons, A., Green, S. F., Hicks, M. D., Snodgrass, C., Wolters, S. D., Chesley, S. R., Pittichová, J. & van Oers, P., 01 Oct 2013, In: Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 45, 5

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract › peer-review

  • asteroids
  • torque
  • center of mass
  • spacecraft
  • predictions

• Discovery of Main-Belt Comet P/2006 VW139 by Pan-STARRS1

  Hsieh, H. H., Yang, B., Haghighipour, N., Kaluna, H. M., Fitzsimmons, A., Denneau, L., Novakovic, B., Jedicke, R., Wainscoat, R. J., Armstrong, J. D., Duddy, S. R., Lowry, S. C., Trujillo, C. A., Micheli, M., Keane, J. V., Urban, L., Riesen, T., Meech, K. J., Abe, S., Cheng, Y. C. & 22 others, Chen, W. P., Granvik, M., Grav, T., Ip, W. H., Kinoshita, D., Kleyna, J., Lacerda, P., Lister, T., Milani, A., Tholen, D. J., Veres, P., Lisse, C. M., Kelley, M. S., Fernandez, Y. R., Bhatt, B. C., Sahu, D. K., Kaiser, N., Chambers, K. C., Hodapp, K. W., Magnier, E. A., Price, P. A. & Tonry, J. L., 01 May 2012, In: Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2012, Proceedings of the conference held May 16-20, 2012 in Niigata, Japan. LPI Contribution No. 1667, id.6313. 1667, p. 6313

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract

  • Minor Planets
  45 Citations (Scopus)

• Irradiation of oxygen and water ices at by 4 keV singly and doubly charged ions; sputtering and molecular synthesis

  Muntean, E. A., Field, T. A., Fitzsimmons, A., Hunniford, A., Lacerda, P. & McCullough, R. W., Jun 2014, In: Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 46, 4

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract › peer-review

  • ice
  • sputtering
  • synthesis
  • irradiation
  • oxygen

• Optical Spectroscopy of Unbound Asteroid Pairs

  Duddy, S., Lowry, S. C., Christou, A., Wolters, S. D., Snodgrass, C., Fitzsimmons, A., Deller, J. F., Hainaut, O. R., Rozitis, B., Weissman, P. R. & Green, S. F., 01 Oct 2012, In: Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 44, p. 78 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract

  • asteroids
  • spectroscopy
  • taxonomy
  • data reduction
  • European Southern Observatory

• Physical Characterisation of Fast-Rotating Near-Earth Asteroids

  Wolters, S. D., Lowry, S. C., Duddy, S. R., Fitzsimmons, A., Green, S. F., Hicks, M., Rosenberg, E. D., Rozitis, B., Snodgrass, C. & Weissman, P. R., 01 May 2012, In: Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2012, Proceedings of the conference held May 16-20, 2012 in Niigata, Japan. LPI Contribution No. 1667, id.6343. 1667, p. 6343

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract

  • albedo
  • asteroids
  • stripping
  • surface properties
  • characterization

• Shape and Rotation Modeling and Thermophysical Analysis of Near-Earth Asteroid (1917) Cuyo

  Weissman, P. R., Lowry, S. C., Rozek, A., Duddy, S. R., Rozitis, B., Wolters, S. D., Snodgrass, C., Fitzsimmons, A., Green, S. & Hicks, M. D., 01 Oct 2013, In: Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 45, 9

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract › peer-review

  • asteroids
  • European Southern Observatory
  • Amor asteroid
  • photometry
  • telescopes

• The Influence of Global-Selfheating on the Yarkovsky and YORP Effects

  Rozitis, B., Green, S. F., Duddy, S. R., Fitzsimmons, A., Hicks, M., Lowry, S. C., Snodgrass, C., Weissman, P. R. & Wolters, S. D., 01 May 2012, In: Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2012, Proceedings of the conference held May 16-20, 2012 in Niigata, Japan. LPI Contribution No. 1667, id.6239. 1667, p. 6239

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract

  • asteroids
  • orbitals
  • predictions

• Visible-Wavelength Survey of Jupiter-Family Cometary Nuclei as Part of SEPPCoN

  Fernandez, Y. R., Lowry, S. C., Meech, K. J., Laird, R., Fitzsimmons, A., Snodgrass, C., Weissman, P. R., Pittichova, J., Bauer, J. M., Weaver, H. A., Lisse, C. M., A'Hearn, M. F., Campins, H., Groussin, O., Kelley, M. S., Lamy, P. L., Licandro, J., Toth, I. & Reach, W. T., 01 May 2012, In: Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2012, Proceedings of the conference held May 16-20, 2012 in Niigata, Japan. LPI Contribution No. 1667, id.6488. 1667, p. 6488

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting abstract

  • Physical properties
  • Wavelength
• Other report

  ASIME 2018 White Paper. In-Space Utilisation of Asteroids: Asteroid Composition -- Answers to Questions from the Asteroid Miners

  Graps, A. L., Abbud-Madrid, A., Abell, P., Barucci, A., Beck, P., Bonal, L., Bonin, G., Risan Borgersen, Ø., Britt, D., Campins, H., Cannon, K., Carnelli, I., Carry, B., Crawford, I., de Leon, J., Drube, L., Donaldson-Hanna, K., Elvis, M., Fitzsimmons, A., Galache, JL. & 24 others, Green, S. F., Thimo Grundmann, J., Herique, A., Hestroffer, D., Hsieh, H., Kereszturi, A., Kueppers, M., Lewicki, C., Lin, Y., Mainzer, A., Michel, P., Moon, H-K., Nakamura, T., Penttila, A., Pursiainen, S., Raymond, C., Reddy, V., Rivkin, A., Sercel, J., Stickle, A., Tanga, P., Takala, M., Wirtz, T. & Wu, Y., 01 Apr 2019

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  • asteroids
  • Luxembourg
  • resources
  • sample return missions
  • engineering
• Paper

  Caroline: A Search for the Source of Earth's Water

  Jones, G. H., Agarwal, J., Arridge, C. S., Bowles, N., Burchell, M., Coates, A. J., Dougherty, M. K., Duddy, S., Fitzsimmons, A., Graps, A., Hsieh, H., Lisse, C., Lowry, S. C., Masters, A., Sierks, H., Snodgrass, C. & Tubiana, C., 01 Mar 2011, p. 5043.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

  • water

• Castalia — A Mission to a Main Belt Comet

  Jones, G. H., Altwegg, K., Bertini, I., Bieler, A., Boehnhardt, H., Bowles, N., Braukhane, A., Capria, M. T., Coates, A. J., Ciarletti, V., Davidsson, B., Engrand, C., Fitzsimmons, A., Gibbings, A., Hainaut, O., Hallmann, M., Herique, A., Hilchenbach, M., Homeister, M., Hsieh, H. & 19 others, Jehin, E., Kofman, W., Lara, L. M., Licandro, J., Lowry, S. C., Moreno, F., Muinonen, K., Paetzold, M., Penttilä, A., Plettmeier, D., Prialnik, D., Marboeuf, U., Marzari, F., Meech, K., Rotundi, A., Smith, A., Snodgrass, C., Thomas, I. & Trieloff, M., Jan 2015. 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

  • comets
  • asteroids
  • European Space Agency
  • orbits

• New exoplanets from the SuperWASP-North survey

  Pollacco, D., Faedi, F., Barros, S., Simpson, E., McCormac, J., Moulds, V., Watson, C., Todd, I., Keenan, F. & Fitzsimmons, A., Aug 2010.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

• Solar phase functions of cometary nuclei

  Snodgrass, C., Tubiana, C., Fitzsimmons, A. & Lowry, S. C., 01 Oct 2011, p. 1524.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

  • wolves
  • robotics
  • comets
  • surface properties
  • light curve

• The size distribution of Jupiter Family comets

  Snodgrass, C., Fitzsimmons, A., Lowry, S. C. & Weissman, P., 01 Sep 2010, p. 567.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

  • comets
  • Jupiter (planet)

• Uranian Equinoctial Observations

  Bauer, J. M., Hammel, H. B., Young, L. A., Olkin, C. B., Goguen, J. D., Hicks, M., Schmidt, B., Lainey, V., Chanover, N. J., Miller, C., Hibbitts, C. A., Baines, K. H., Arlot, J., Fitzsimmons, A. & Buratti, B. J., 01 Dec 2008.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

  • telescopes
  • planets
  • observatories
  • insolation
  • Uranus (planet)
• Review article

  A photometric and spectroscopic survey for young stars in the halo of M31

  Hambly, N. C., Fitzsimmons, A., Keenan, F. P., Dufton, P. L., Brown, P. J. F., Irwin, M. J. & Rolleston, W. R. J., 01 Aug 1995, In: Astrophysical Journal. 448, 2, p. 628-633 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  • halos
  • young
  • stars
  • Andromeda Galaxy
  • Andromeda
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• The 2008 RAS National Astronomy Meeting

  Fitzsimmons, A., Mathioudakis, M. & Kavanagh, A., 01 Jun 2008, In: Astronomy and Geophysics. 49, 3, p. 3.8-3.10

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article

  Open Access

  • Astronomy
  • astronomy
  • Molecular physics
  • Atomic physics
  • Physics

• The Main Belt Comets and Ice in the Solar System

  Snodgrass, C., Agarwal, J., Combi, M., Fitzsimmons, A., Guilbert-Lepoutre, A., Hsieh, H. H., Hui, M-T., Jehin, E., Kelley, M. S. P., Knight, M., Opitom, C., Orosei, R., Val-Borro, M. D. & Yang, B., 14 Nov 2017, In: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  • comets
  • comet
  • solar system
  • ice
  • asteroid belts
  24 Citations (Scopus)

• The natural History of 'Oumuamua

  Bannister, M., Bhandare, A., Dybczynski, P., Fitzsimmons, A., Guilbert-Lepoutre, A., Jedicke, R., Knight, M., Meech, K. J., McNeill, A., Pfalzner, S., Raymond, S., Snodgrass, C., Trilling, D. & Ye, Q., 01 Jul 2019, In: Nature Astronomy.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • solar system
  • histories
  • planetary systems
  33 Citations (Scopus)

  256 Downloads (Pure)

• The plane of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt

  Collander-Brown, S. J., Melita, M. D., Williams, I. P. & Fitzsimmons, A., 01 Mar 2003, In: Icarus. 162, 1, p. 22-26 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  • Kuiper belt
  • long term effects
  • markers
  • mass distribution
  • solar system
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• The Science of Sungrazers, Sunskirters, and Other Near-Sun Comets

  Jones, G. H., Knight, M., Battams, K., Boice, D., Brown, J., Giordano, S., Raymond, J., Snodgrass, C., Steckloff, J., Weissman, P., Fitzsimmons, A., Lisse, C. M., Opitom, C., Burkett, K., =Bzowski, M., Decock, A., Mann, I., Ramanjooloo, Y. & McCauley, P., 01 Feb 2018, In: Space Science Reviews. 214, p. 1-86 86 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • comets
  • comet
  • sun
  • science
  • solar wind
  23 Citations (Scopus)

  294 Downloads (Pure)
• Special issue

  Cometary science after Rosetta

  Jones, G. H., Knight, M. M., Fitzsimmons, A. & Taylor, M. G. G. T., 29 May 2017, In: Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 375, 2097, 6 p., 20170001.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

  • Rosetta mission
  • Systems science
  • Solar system
  • Proximity
  • History
  4 Citations (Scopus)