Anita Cochran 

Anita Cochran

Research Scientist 

Curriculum Vitae 


Address: 
University of Texas 
Department of Astronomy 
1 University Station, C1400 
Austin, TX 78712 
512-471-1471 
e-mail: anita@astro.as.utexas.edu 
Research Interests: 
solar system astronomy; 
chemical composition of comets; 
surface composition of asteroids 
Member CONTOUR mission science team
(Launch 3 July 2002; Lost 15 August 2002)
Member Comet Hopper Mission Study Team

Selected Publications: (click to download either postscript or pdf)

Placing the Deep Impact Mission into Contect: Two Decades of Observations of 9P/Tempel 1 from McDonald Observatory [Icarus in press, 2008]
(postscript, 448KBytes),     (pdf)

Atomic Oxygen in the Comae of Comets [Icarus in press, 2008]
(postscript, 448KBytes),     (pdf)

Nitrogen Isotope Ratios in Comets [in Proceedings of "Precision Spectroscopy of Astrophysics", Ed. N. C. Santos, L. Pasquini, A. C. M. Correia and M. Romaniello, Springer 2006]
(postscript, 448KBytes),     (pdf)

Keck 1 HIRES Observations of Tempel 1 at the Time of Impact [to appear in the proceedings of "Deep Impact as a World Observatory Event - Synergies in Space, Time", ed. Hans Ulrich Käufl and Chris Sterken, Springer, 2006]
(postscript, 392),     (pdf)

Observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 with the Keck 1 HIRES Instrument During Deep Impact [Icarus 187, 144-155, 2007]
(postscript, 2409KBytes),     (pdf)

Using the Ultraviolet and Visible Spectrum of Comet 122P/de Vico to Identify the Parent Molecule CS2 [The Astrophysical Journal (Letters) 607, L139-L141, 2004]
(pdf)

A High Spectral Resolution Atlas of Comet 122P/de Vico [Icarus 157, 297-308, 2002]
(postscript, 1.1MBytes),     (pdf)


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