Results

1. Published Articles

  • Spectrally blue hydrated parent body of asteroid (162173) Ryugu ; Tatsumi Eri, Sakatani Naoya, Riu Lucie, Matsuoka Moe, Honda Rie, Morota Tomokatsu, Kameda Shingo, Nakamura Tomoki, Zolensky Michael, Brunetto Rosario, Hiroi Takahiro, Sasaki Sho, Watanabe Sei'ichiro, Tanaka Satoshi, Takita Jun, Pilorget Cédric, de León Julia, Popescu Marcel, Rizos Juan Luis, Licandro Javier Palomba Ernesto, Domingue Deborah, Vilas Faith, Campins Humberto, Cho Yuichiro, Yoshioka Kazuo, Sawada Hirotaka, Yokota Yasuhiro, Hayakawa Masahiko, Yamada Manabu, Kouyama Toru, Suzuki Hidehiko, Honda Chikatoshi, Ogawa Kazunori, Kitazato Kohei, Hirata Naru, Hirata Naoyuki, Tsuda Yuichi, Yoshikawa Makoto, Saiki Takanao, Terui Fuyuto, Nakazawa Satoru, Takei Yuto, Takeuchi Hiroshi, Yamamoto Yukio, Okada Tatsuaki, Shimaki Yuri, Shirai Kei, Sugita Seiji; Nature Communications, Volume 12, article id. 5837; October 2021 (Link, ads).

  • Near Earth Asteroids on Cometary Orbits ; N. G. Simion, M. Popescu, J. Licandro, O. Vaduvescu, J. de León, R. M. Gherase; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 508, Issue 1, pp.1128-1147; November 2021 (Link, ads, arXiv).

  • Widely distributed exogenic materials of varying compositions and morphologies on asteroid (101955) Bennu ; Eri Tatsumi, Marcel Popescu, Humberto Campins, Julia de León, Juan Luis Rizos García, Javier Licandro, Amy A. Simon, Hannah H. Kaplan, Daniella N. DellaGiustina, Dathon R. Golish, Dante S. Lauretta; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 508, Issue 2, pp.2053-2070; December 2021 (Link, ads, arXiv).

  • Hubble Asteroid Hunter. I. Identifying asteroid trails in Hubble Space Telescope images ; Kruk Sandor, García Martín Pablo, Popescu Marcel, Merín Bruno, Mahlke Max, Carry Benoît, Thomson Ross, KaradaÄŸ Samet, Durán Javier, Racero Elena, Giordano Fabrizio, Baines Deborah, de Marchi Guido, Laureijs René; Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 661, id.A85, 15 pp.; May 2022; (Link, ads, arXiv).

  • The OmegaWhite Survey for Short Period Variable Stars VI. Open Clusters ; R. Toma, G. Ramsay, C.S. Jeffery, S.A. Macfarlane, P. Woudt, P.J Groot; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 513, Issue 1, pp.468-486; June 2022 (Link, ads, arXiv).

  • The multichord stellar occultation on 2019 October 22 by the trans-Neptunian object (84922) 2003 VS2 ; Vara-Lubiano, M.; .... Popescu Marcel, ..... Gherase Radu Mihai, .....(62 co-authors); Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 663, id.A121, 17 pp. July 2022 (Link, ads, arXiv).

  • Near-ultraviolet to visible spectroscopy of the Themis and Polana-Eulalia complex families ; Tatsumi E., Tinaut-Ruano F., de León J., Popescu M., Licandro J., Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 664, id.A107, 18 pp., August 2022. (Link, ads, arXiv)

  • Physical properties of the trans-Neptunian object (38628) Huya from a multi-chord stellar occultation ; Santos-Sanz P.; .... Popescu Marcel, ..... Gherase Radu Mihai, ..... (86 co-authors); Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 664, id.A130, 18 pp.; August 2022 (Link, ads, arXiv)

  • International Asteroid Warning Network Timing Campaign: 2019 XS ; Davide Farnocchia; .... Popescu Marcel, ..... (72 co-authors); The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 3, Issue 7, id.156, 13 pp; July 2022 (Link, ads)

1.1 Submitted Articles

  • Mineralogical analysis of 14 PHAs from ViNOS data ; Morate David, Popescu Marcel , Javier Licandro, Fernando Tinaut-Ruano, Eri Tatsumi, Julia de León; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

  • Observations of two super fast rotator NEAs: 2021 NY1 and 2022 AB ;Licandro Javier, Popescu Marcel, Tatsumi Eri, Alarcon Miguel R., Serra-Ricart Miquel, Medeiros Hissa, Morate David, Tinaut-Ruano Fernando, ; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

2. Conferences

3. Observing proposals

  • Simultaneous observations in four optical bands of near-Earth asteroids using TCS/MuSCAT2 instrument, 12 nights awarded for 2021A semester, 9 nights awarded for 2021B semester, 9 nights awarded for 2022A semester, 9 nights awarded for 2022B semester,
  • Spectra characterization of 2020 AV2 , the first known asteroid orbiting inside Venus orbit, 12 h awarded for 2021B semester with IRTF
  • The Nature of a New Eruptive Variable Star and its Nebula, 4 h awarded for 2021B semester and 6h awarded for 2022A with IRTF
  • Near Earth Asteroids on Cometary Orbits, 3 nights awarded for 2021 B semester with INT telescope
  • Search for F-type asteroids: Context of Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx sample return missions, INT, GTC - proposed
  • Visible spectra of newly discovered near-Earth asteroids and NEAs accesible to spacecraft, GTC, Que mode, observations performed every semester
  • Compositional characterization of low inclination V-type candidate asteroids to explain the presence of basaltic material on the surface of Bennu, TNG

4. Data processing software

  • The toolbox for spectral to spectro-photometric conversion and spectral comparisons applied for OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2 data (Octave scripting) 01_SpectraMeteoritesComparison.zip
  • Data pre- and post- processing of spectro-photometric data coming from TCS/MuSCAT2 instrument (Pyhton scripting) 02_TCS_MUuSCAT2_Proc.zip
  • Accessing the asteroid information from various csv files (PHP scripting) 03_NEAInfo.zip
  • The comet profile of 2I/Borisov (bash scripting) 04_2IBorisov.zip
  • TCS/MuSCAT2 NEAs program database TCS-NEAs colors

5. Reports