About
When he is not working Robert enjoys traveling, bicycling, hiking, surfing, reading, and cooking.
Research
Most of my research involves studies of the populations of asteroids and comets in and beyond our solar system. Two of the most interesting sub-populations of objects are “minimoons”, natural objects that are temporarily captured in the Earth-Moon system, and “interstellar objects”, natural objects that pass through our solar system too quickly to have ever been gravitationally bound to the Sun. In the past few years I have become interested in mining asteroids and I work with TransAstra Corporation to explore commercially viable options for extracting water from asteroids.
Publications
- Mineralogical Characterization and Phase Angle Study of Two Binary Near-Earth Asteroids, Potential Targets for NASA's Janus Mission Le Corre, L., Sanchez, J. A., Reddy, V., Battle, A., Cantillo, D. C., Sharkey, B., Jedicke, R., and Scheeres, D. J. (2023) The Planetary Science Journal 4, p. 91v
- Shape-driven selection effects for aspherical near-Earth objects in systematic surveys Levine, W. G. and Jedicke, R. (2023) Icarus 396, p. 115501
- Numerical behaviour of the Keplerian Integrals methods for initial orbit determination Rodríguez, Ó., Gronchi, G. F., Baù, G., and Jedicke, R. (2022) Icarus 384, p. 115080
- Optimized continuous-thrust round-trip trajectories to ultra-low Δv ISRU targets Jedicke, R., Hermosin, P., Sercel, J., Centuori, S., Sciarra, M., Cano, Á., and Peterson, C. (2022) Planetary and Space Science 211, p. 105407
- A Sublime Opportunity: The Dynamics of Transitioning Cometary Bodies and the Feasibility of In Situ Observations of the Evolution of Their Activity Seligman, D. Z., Kratter, K. M., Levine, W. G., and Jedicke, R. (2021) The Planetary Science Journal 2, p. 234
- Generalization of a method by Mossotti for initial orbit determination Gronchi, G. F., Baù, G., Rodríguez, Ó., Jedicke, R., and Moeyens, J. (2021) Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 133, p. 41
- Preface for special issue on Meteoroids, Meteors and Small bodies in the solar system: A special issue of the Meteoroids 2019 Conference Janches, D., Moorhead, A., Hajduková, M., Tóth, J., Ye, Q., and Jedicke, R. (2021) Planetary and Space Science 199, p. 105191
- Establishing Earth's Minimoon Population through Characterization of Asteroid 2020 CD3 Fedorets, G., and 22 colleagues including Jedicke, R.(2020) The Astronomical Journal 160, p. 277
- ASMODEUS meteor simulation tool Baláž, M., Tóth, J., Vereš, P., and Jedicke, R. (2020) Planetary and Space Science 190, p. 104937
- THE PAN-STARRS1 SURVEYS Chambers, K. C. and many colleagues including Jedicke, R. (2020). submitted to ApJ.
- The Pan-STARRS Data Processing System Magnier, E., and many colleagues including Jedicke, R. (2020).
- Pan-STARRS Pixel Processing: Detrending, Warping, Stacking Waters, C. Z., and many colleagues including Jedicke, R. (2020).
- Pan-STARRS Pixel Analysis : Source Detection and Characterization Magnier, E., and many colleagues including Jedicke, R. (2020).
- Pan-STARRS Photometric and Astrometric Calibration Magnier, E., and many colleagues including Jedicke, R. (2020).
- The Pan-STARRS1 Database and Data Products Flewelling, H. A., and many colleagues including Jedicke, R. (2020).
- Debiased albedo distribution for Near Earth Objects Morbidelli, A., Delbo, M., Granvik, M., Bottke, W. F., Jedicke, R., Bolin, B., Michel, P., and Vokrouhlicky, D. (2020) Icarus 340, p. 113631
- Discovering Earth's transient moons with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Fedorets, G., Granvik, M., Jones, R. L., Jurić, M., and Jedicke, R. (2020) Icarus 338, p. 113517
- The orbit and size-frequency distribution of long period comets observed by Pan-STARRS1 (2019) Benjamin Boe, Robert Jedicke, Karen J.Meech, Paul Wiegert, Robert J.Weryk, K.C.Chambers, L.Denneau, N.Kaiser, R.-P.Kudritzki, E.A.Magnier, R.J.Wainscoat, C.Waters, Icarus, Volume 333, p. 252-272.
- The Natural History of 'Oumuamua (2019) The 'Oumuamua ISSI Team (Michele T. Bannister, Asmita Bhandare, Piotr A. Dybczy\'nski, Alan Fitzsimmons, Aur\'elie Guilbert-Lepoutre, Robert Jedicke, Matthew M. Knight, Karen J. Meech, Andrew McNeill, Susanne Pfalzner, Sean N. Raymond, Colin Snodgrass, David E. Trilling, Quanzhi Ye) Published in Nature Astronomy, 01 July 2019.
- The digest2 NEO Classification Code Keys, S., Vereš, P., Payne, M. J., Holman, M. J., Jedicke, R., Williams, G. V., Spahr, T., Asher, D. J., and Hergenrother, C. (2019) Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 131, p. 064501
- First Results from the Rapid-response Spectrophotometric Characterization of Near-Earth Objects Using RATIR Navarro-Meza, S., Mommert, M., Trilling, D. E., Butler, N., Reyes-Ruiz, M., Pichardo, B., Axelrod, T., Jedicke, R.., and Moskovitz, N. (2019) The Astronomical Journal 157, p. 190
- Spectroscopy and thermal modelling of the first interstellar object 1I/2017 U1 `Oumuamua Fitzsimmons, A., Snodgrass, C., Rozitis, B., Yang, B., Hyland, M., Seccull, T., Bannister, M. T., Fraser, W. C., Jedicke, R., and Lacerda, P. (2018) Nature Astronomy 2, p. 133-137
- Extreme Asteroids in the Pan-STARRS 1 Survey McNeill, A., Fitzsimmons, A., Jedicke, R., Lacerda, P., Lilly, E., Thompson, A., Trilling, D. E., DeMooij, E., Hooton, M. J., and Watson, C. A. (2018) The Astronomical Journal 156, p. 282
- Debiased orbit and absolute-magnitude distributions for near-Earth objects Granvik, M., Morbidelli, A., Jedicke, R., Bolin, B., Bottke, W. F., Beshore, E., Vokrouhlický, D., Nesvorný, D., and Michel, P. (2018) Icarus 312, p. 181-207
- Distribution of shape elongations of main belt asteroids derived from Pan-STARRS1 photometry Cibulková, H., and 12 colleagues including Jedicke, R. (2018) Astronomy and Astrophysics 611, p. A86
- A Dwarf Planet Class Object in the 21:5 Resonance with Neptune Holman, M. J., and 35 colleagues including R. Jedicke (2018) The Astrophysical Journal 855, p. L6
- Availability and delta-v requirements for delivering water extracted from near-Earth objects to cis-lunar space (2018) R. Jedicke, Sercel, J., Gillis-Davis, J., Morenz, K. J., Gertsch, L. Planetary and Space Science 159, 28-42.
- Earth’s Minimoons:Opportunities for Science and Technology (2018) R. Jedicke, William F. Bottke, Monique Chyba, Grigori Fedorets, Mikael Granvik, and Hodei Urrutxua. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences 5, 13.
- An Investigation of the Ranges of Validity of Asteroid Thermal Models for Near-Earth Asteroid Observations (2018) Mommert, M.; R. Jedicke and Trilling, D. E. The Astronomical Journal, Volume 155, Issue 2, article id. 74, 10 pp. (2018).
- Computational Modeling of Heat Transport and Volatile Extraction from Asteroid Materials') submitted to the Symp 2: Exploration and Utilization of Extra-Terrestrial Bodies (2018) J. Sercel, M.A. Crawford, C. Dreyer, E. C. Unobe, D. Britt, R. Jedicke, and S. Love. A SCE Earth and Space 2018 Conference.
- Spin states of asteroids in the Eos collisional family (2018). J. Hanuš, M. Delbo', V. Alí-Lagoa, B. Bolin, R. Jedicke and 32 others. Icarus, Volume 299, p. 84-96..
- Time dependent finite difference modeling of outgassing of asteroids via bulk heating (2018) Joel C. Sercel ; Mark A. Crawford ; Christopher Dreyer ; Egboche Unobe ; R. Jedicke ; Daniel Britt ; Leslie S. Gertsch
- Spectroscopy and thermal modelling of the first interstellar object 1I/2017 U1 ‘Oumuamua (2017) Fitzsimmons, Alan and 9 co-authors including R. Jedicke, Nature Astronomy, Volume 2, pages133–137.
- A brief visit from a red and extremely elongated interstellar asteroid (2017) Meech, Karen J.; Weryk, Robert; Micheli, Marco; Kleyna, Jan T.; Hainaut, Olivier R.; R. Jedicke; and 12 other co-authors. Nature, Volume 552, Issue 7685, pp. 378-381.
- CO-driven Activity in Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) (2017) Meech, K. and 14 co-authors including R. Jedicke
- Orbit and size distributions for asteroids temporarily captured by the Earth-Moon system (2017). Fedorets, G., Granvik, M., and Jedicke, R., Icarus 285, 83-94
- The size-frequency distribution of H > 13 NEOs and ARM target candidates detected by Pan-STARRS1 (2017). Schunová-Lilly, E., Jedicke, R., Vereš, P., Denneau, L., and Wainscoat, R. J. Icarus 284, 114-125
- The Splitting of Double-component Active Asteroid P/2016 J1 (PANSTARRS) (2017). Moreno, F., and 22 colleagues including Jedicke, R., The Astrophysical Journal 837, L3
- An Observational Upper Limit on the Interstellar Number Density of Asteroids and Comets (2017). Engelhardt, T., Jedicke, R., Vereš, P., Fitzsimmons, A., Denneau, L., Beshore, E., and Meinke, B. The Astronomical Journal 153, 133
- The young Datura asteroid family. Spins, shapes, and population estimate (2017). Vokrouhlický, D., and 12 colleagues including Jedicke, R., Astronomy and Astrophysics 598, A91
- Escape of asteroids from the main belt (2017). Granvik, M., Morbidelli, A., Vokrouhlický, D., Bottke, W. F., Nesvorný, D., and Jedicke, R., Astronomy and Astrophysics 598, A52
- Small asteroids temporarily captured in the Earth-Moon system. (2016) R. Jedicke, Bolin, B., Bottke, W. F., Chyba, M., Fedorets, G., Granvik, M., and Patterson, G. in IAU Symposium 318 Asteroids: New Observations, New Models 318, 86-90.
- Producing Volatiles from Asteroid Simulants: Preliminary Results Gertsch, L. and 9 colleagues including Jedicke, R. (2017). submitted to American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
- The Pan-STARRS 1 Discoveries of Five New Neptune Trojans. Lin, H. W., and 18 colleagues including Jedicke, R. (2016). The Astronomical Journal 152, 147.
- Discovery of a New Retrograde Trans-Neptunian Object: Hint of a Common Orbital Plane for Low Semimajor Axis, High-inclination TNOs and Centaurs. Chen, Y.-T., and 16 colleagues including Jedicke, R. (2016). The Astrophysical Journal 827, L24.
- Near-Earth asteroid (3200) Phaethon: Characterization of its orbit, spin state, and thermophysical parameters. Hanus, J., and 17 colleagues including Jedicke, R. (2016). Astronomy and Astrophysics 592, A34.
- A Coordinated Research Program to Develop the Technology to Optical Mine Asteroids Sercel, J. C., Dreyer, C. B., Abbud-Madrid, A., Britt, D., Jedicke, R., Gertsch, L., Love, S.G. (2016). to appear in the proceedings of ASCE Earth & Space Sciences 2016.
- Brightness variation distributions among main belt asteroids from sparse light-curve sampling with Pan-STARRS 1. McNeill, A., Fitzsimmons, A., Jedicke, R., Wainscoat, R., Denneau, L., Veres, P., Magnier, E., Chambers, K. C., Kaiser, N., and Waters, C., (2016). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 459, 2964-2972.
- First Results from the Rapid-Response Spectrophotometric Characterization of Near-Earth Objects using UKIRT Mommert, M., Trilling, D. E., Borth, D., Jedicke, R., Butler, N., Reyes-Ruiz, M., Pichardo, B., Petersen, E., Axelrod, T., and Moskovitz, N. (2016). Icarus 266, 173-188.
- Super-catastrophic disruption of asteroids at small perihelion distances Granvik, M., Morbidelli, A., Jedicke, R., et al. (2016). Nature 530, p. 303.
- Minimum fuel round trip from a L2 Earth-Moon Halo orbit to Asteroid 2006 RH120 Chyba, M., Haberkorn, T., and Jedicke, R. (2016). In Special Issue of "Recent Advances in Celestial and Space Mechanics", Mathematics for Industry, Springer-Verlag, Japan. Editors: Chyba, Monique; Bonnard, Bernard.
- Surveys, astrometric follow-up & population statistics Jedicke, R., Granvik, M., Micheli, M., Ryan, E., Spahr, T., Yeomans, D.K. (2016). In Asteroids IV. Edited by Patrick Michel; Francesca E. DeMeo; William F. Bottke Jr.
- A fast method for quantifying observational selection effects in asteroid surveys. Jedicke, R. , Bolin, B., Granvik, M., and Beshore, E., (2016). Icarus 266, 173-188.
- Absolute magnitudes and slope parameters for 250,000 asteroids observed by Pan-STARRS PS1 - Preliminary results. Veres, P., Jedicke, R., and 15 colleagues, (2015). Icarus 261, 34-47.
- Machine learning for transient discovery in Pan-STARRS1 difference imaging. Wright, D. E., and 17 colleagues, (2015). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 449, 451-466.
- Selecting superluminous supernovae in faint galaxies from the first year of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey. McCrum, M., and 38 colleagues, (2015). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 448, 1206-1231.
- The main-belt comets: The Pan-STARRS1 perspective. Hsieh, H. H., and 19 colleagues, (2015). Icarus 248, 289-312.
- Observational constraints on the catastrophic disruption rate of small main belt asteroids. Denneau, L., Jedicke, R., and 16 colleagues, (2015). Icarus 245, 1-15.
- Detecting Earth's temporarily-captured natural satellites-Minimoons. Bolin, B., Jedicke, R. , Granvik, M., Brown, P., Howell, E., Nolan, M. C., Jenniskens, P., Chyba, M., Patterson, G., and Wainscoat, R., (2014). Icarus 241, 280-297.
- Rapidly Evolving and Luminous Transients from Pan-STARRS1. Drout, M. R., and 35 colleagues, (2014). The Astrophysical Journal 794, 23.
- Properties and evolution of NEO families created by tidal disruption at Earth. Schunova, E., Jedicke, R. , Walsh, K. J., Granvik, M., Wainscoat, R. J., and Haghighipour, N., (2014). Icarus 238, 156-169.
- Automatic detection of asteroids and meteoroids. A Wide Field Survey. Veres, P., Toth, J., J., Jedicke, R., Tonry, J., Denneau, L., Wainscoat, R., Kornos, L., and Silha, (2014). Meteoroids 2013 307-314.
- Pan-STARRS 1 Observations of the Unusual Active Centaur P/2011 S1(Gibbs). Lin, H. W., and 15 colleagues, (2014). The Astronomical Journal 147, 114.
- Characterization of the Praesepe Star Cluster by Photometry and Proper Motions with 2MASS, PPMXL, and Pan-STARRS. Wang, P. F., and 33 colleagues, (2014). The Astrophysical Journal 784, 57.
- The effect of parallax and cadence on asteroid impact probabilities and warning times Veres, P., Farnocchia, D., Jedicke, R., Spoto, F. (2014) PASP 126, issue 939, pp433-444.
- Pan-STARRS 1 Observations of the Unusual Active Centaur P/2011 S1(Gibbs) Lin, H. W.; Chen, Y. T.; Lacerda, P.; Ip, W. H.; Holman, M.; Protopapas, P.; Chen, W. P.; Burgett, W. S.; Chambers, K. C.; Flewelling, H.; Huber, M. E.; Jedicke, R.; Kaiser, N.; Magnier, E. A.; Metcalfe, N.; Price, P. A., (2014). AJ 147, Issue 5.
- Search for the Return of Activity in Active Asteroid 176P/LINEAR Henry H. Hsieh, Larry Denneau, Alan Fitzsimmons, Olivier R. Hainaut, Masateru Ishiguro, Robert Jedicke, Heather M. Kaluna, Jacqueline V. Keane, Jan Kleyna, Pedro Lacerda, Eric M. MacLennan, Karen J. Meech, Nick A. Moskovitz, Timm Riesen, Eva Schunova, Colin Snodgrass, Chadwick A. Trujillo, Laurie Urban, Peter Veres, Richard J. Wainscoat, and Bin Yang. (2014) AJ Vol. 147, Number 4, p. 89.
- Earth's Temporarily-Captured Natural Satellites - The First Step on the Ladder to Asteroid Resources Granvik, M.,, Jedicke, R., Bolin, B., Chyba, M., Patterson, G., Picot, G., (2013). to be published in Asteroids. Prospective Energy and Material Resources. Springer-Verlag, in press.
- Main-belt Comet P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS) Hsieh, Henry H.; Kaluna, Heather M.; Novakovi, Bojan; Yang, Bin; Haghighipour, Nader; Micheli, Marco; Denneau, Larry; Fitzsimmons, Alan; Jedicke, R. and 19 other co-authors, (2013). ApJL 771, Issue 1, p. 6.
- Space transfers from the Geostationary orbits to temporary captured near Earth orbiters Chyba, M., Patterson, G., Picot, G., Granvik, M., Jedicke, R., Vaubaillon, J. (2014). To appear in a special issue of the AIMS Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization (JIMO) titled Computational Methods for Optimization and Control.
- Three-dimensional time-minimum space transfers using low-thrust to temporary captured near Earth orbiters Chyba, M., Patterson, G., Picot, G., Granvik, M., Jedicke, R., Vaubaillon, J. (2013). To appear in an edition of the PROMS Series: Advances of Optimization and Control With Applications, Springer Verlag, in press.
- The Extremely Red, Young L Dwarf PSO J318-22: A Free-Floating Planetary-Mass Analog to Directly Imaged Young Gas-Giant Planets Michael C. Liu, Eugene A. Magnier, Niall R. Deacon, Katelyn N. Allers, Trent J. Dupuy, Michael C. Kotson, Kimberly M. Aller, W. S. Burgett, K. C. Chambers, P. W. Draper, K. W. Hodapp, R. Jedicke, R.-P. Kudritzki, N. Metcalfe, J. S. Morgan, N. Kaiser, P. A. Price, J. L. Tonry, R. J. Wainscoat (2013). ApJL, 777, Issue 2.
- Outgassing Behavior of C/2012 S1 (ISON) From September 2011 to June 2013 Karen J. Meech, Bin Yang, Jan Kleyna, Megan Ansdell, Hsin-Fang Chiang, Olivier Hainaut, Jean-Baptiste Vincent, Hermann Boehnhardt, Alan Fitzsimmons, Travis Rector, Timm Riesen, Jacqueline V. Keane, Bo Reipurth, Henry H. Hsieh, Peter Michaud, Giannantonio Milani, Erik Bryssinck, Rolando Ligustri, Roberto Trabatti, Gian-Paolo Tozzi, Stefano Mottola, Ekkehard Kuehrt, Bhuwan Bhatt, Devendra Sahu, Carey Lisse, Larry Denneau, Jedicke, R., Eugene Magnier, Richard Wainscoat (2013). ApJL 776, Issue 2.
- 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). PASP. Volume 125, issue 926, pp.456-469
- The Pan-STARRS1 Moving Object Processing System. Denneau, L, Jedicke, R., Wainscoat, R., et al (2013). PASP, Volume 125, issue 926, pp.357-395.
- 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 Disruption of Oort Cloud 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)
- Observational Constraints on the Centaur Population 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)
- Forward cross-sections for production of D+, D0, Ds, D*+ and Lambda(c) in 250-GeV pi+-, K+-, and p- nucleon interactions E769 Collaboration (G.A. Alves et al.). Apr 1996. 16 pp. Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 77 (1996) 2388-2391, Erratum: Phys.Rev.Lett. 81 (1998) 1537
- The Population of Near-Earth Objects Discovered by Spacewatch (1995) T. Gehrels and R. Jedicke, Earth, Moon, and Planets, 71, 233-242, Kluwer Publishing, ed. H. Rickman and M.J. Valtonen
- 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 (1991) Errede, D., Sheaff, M., Fenker, H.C., Lueking, L., Mantsch, P. M., R. Jedicke Nucl. Inst. and Meth., A309, 386
- Charm photo-production results from Fermilab E691 and prospects for hadro-production in E769 Karchin, P., and 68 colleagues including R. Jedicke (1989) Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements 7, p. 60-67
- Neutrino Detectors as Early Warning Devices for Supernovae (1989) Jedicke, J. Roy. Astron. Soc. Can., 83, No. 2
- TITLE (YEAR) R. Jedicke
Teaching
- 2018 Spring - ASTR-110 - Survey of Astronomy
- 2017 Spring - ASTR-110 - Survey of Astronomy
- 2016 Spring - ASTR-110 - Survey of Astronomy
- 2015 Spring - ASTR-110 - Survey of Astronomy
Activities
Outreach I have a long history of education and public outreach extending back to my high school days. I have given countless public star nights around the world ranging from the desert outside of Dubai, UAE, to the mountains on New Zealand’s south island. I have a wide range of public talks suitable for audiences of all ages from children to adults. My two most popular public lectures are Killer Asteroids and the seasonal Einstein vs. Santa but I can provide a complete list of topics upon request. Committees I have served on many NASA, NSF, University, and private industry committees. Some of my recent work is on the
- NASA Near Earth Object Science Definition Team
- NASA Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Study Review Team
- B612 Sentinel Senior Review Team
Memberships
- American Astronomical Society (AAS)
- Division of Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the AAS
- Division of Dynamical Astronomy (DDA) of the AAS
Awards
Grants
- No major active grants but in the past I have held grants from NASA, NSF and private contractors.
Advisees
Graduate Students
Current
- none
Previous
- Ben Boe (M.Sc. level research project, currently a graduate student at the U. Hawaii Institute for Astronomy)
- Toni Engelhardt (M. Sc. level research project, currently an independent software developer in Germany)
- Dr. Sarah Sonnett (M.Sc. level research project, currently with the Planetary Science Institute and the NEO-Surveyor spacecraft team)
- Dr. Rachel Stevenson (M.Sc. level research project, current location unknown)
- Dr. Mark Willman (Ph.D. thesis project, currently an observer with the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope)
- Dr. Joseph Masiero (Ph.D. thesis project, currently a Scientist at JPL with the NEOWISE spacecraft mission)
- Max Zavodny (M.Sc. level research project, current location unknown)
- Dr. Bryce Bolin (M.Sc. level research assistant, currently at Caltech)
Postdocs
Current
- none
Previous
- Dr. Eva Lilly (nee Schunova) (currently with the Planetary Science Institute and the NEO-Surveyor spacecraft team)
- Dr. Peter Veres (currently at the Minor Planet Center, Harvard-Smithsonian)
- Dr. Mikael Granvik (currently at the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki)
- Dr. Tommy Grav (currently with the Planetary Science Institute and the NEO-Surveyor spacecraft team)
Undergraduate Students
Current
- 2020 - Sarah Shores (B.Sc. U.C. San Diego)
Previous
- 2015 - Karen Morenz (U. Toronto, Canada)
- 2012 - Emily Lemonier (Columbia University)
Robert Jedicke
Specialist Emeritus
Ph.D., 1992, University of Toronto
M.Sc., 1987, University of Toronto
H.B.Sc., 1985, University of Western Ontario
M.Sc., 1987, University of Toronto
H.B.Sc., 1985, University of Western Ontario
- Orbit and size distributions of asteroid populations including main belt and near Earth objects, Centaurs, Trans-Neptunian objects, comets, and interstellar objects.
- over 120 refereed publications as of 2020 May 18
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