NAI
2016 Annual Science Report
NASA Ames Research Center
Reporting | JAN 2016 – DEC 2016
Executive Summary
In addition to the publications listed elsewhere, the team has made progress in a number of other areas over the December 2015 to November 2016 timeframe. Brief descriptions of the highlights are provided below:
(1) Scientific Presentations – Team members have made presentations (oral and poster) at a number of scientific conferences including:
• Team member Partha Bera presented a poster entitled “Pure and N-substituted Small Cyclic Hydrocarbon Cations and Anions Synthesis in The Ionosphere of Titan: An Ab-Initio Quantum Chemical Perspective” at the Planetary Atmosphere and Their Evolution” session of the San Francisco AGU meeting in December 2015.
• Team member Greg Laughlin, working with Konstantin Batygin and Peter Bodenheimer, have developed a theory for how hot Jupiters (short-period Jovian-mass planets on orbits with periods of just a few days) can form in-situ via core accretion. This work has consequences for theories of planet formation and ... Continue reading.
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Scott Sandford
NAI, ASTEP, ASTID, Exobiology -
TEAM Active Dates:
1/2015 - 12/2019 CAN 7 -
Team Website:
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Members:
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Project Reports
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Planetesimal Formation and Transport of Ices in Protoplanetary Disks
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 3.1 -
Computational Quantum Chemistry
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1 3.2 3.4 -
Laboratory Studies of Ice Photochemistry and the Production of Sugar Derivatives and Nucleobases
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1 3.2 -
Laboratory Studies of Gas-Grain Chemistry
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 3.1 3.2 3.4 -
Exoplanet Studies
ROADMAP OBJECTIVES: 1.1 1.2 2.2
Publications
- There are no publications for this team in the 2016 annual report.
2016 Teams
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Georgia Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Icy Worlds
SETI Institute
University of California, Riverside
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Montana, Missoula
University of Southern California
University of Wisconsin
VPL at University of Washington