NAI
Boncho Bonev
Catholic University of America
Current Projects
- Serial Measurements of the Volatile Composition of Comet D/2012 S1 (ISON) between 1.2 and 0.34 AU from the Sun — 2015 NAI
- Solar System Volatile Distributions – Icy Bodies — 2014 NAI
- Volatile Composition of Comets: Emphasis on Oxidized Carbon — 2014 NAI
- Solar System Volatile Distributions – Icy Bodies — 2014 NAI
- The Variability of Carbon Monoxide Abundances Among Oort Cloud Comets — 2014 NAI
- Fundamental Properties Revealed by Parent Volatiles in Comets — 2014 NAI
- Solar System Volatile Distributions – Icy Bodies — 2014 NAI
- Fundamental Properties Revealed by Parent Volatiles in Comets — 2013 NAI
- Solar System Volatile Distributions – Icy Bodies — 2013 NAI
- Infrared Detections of Hypervolatiles in Distant Comets - Implications for Chemical Taxonomy — 2013 NAI
- Remote Sensing of Organic Volatiles on Mars and Modeling of Cometary Atmospheres — 2013 NAI
- Volatile Composition of Comets: Emphasis on Oxidized Carbon — 2013 NAI
- Composition of Parent Volatiles in Comets — 2012 NAI
- Composition of Parent Volatiles in Comets — 2011 NAI
- Summer Undergraduate Internships in Astrobiology — 2009 NAI
- Towards a Cometary Taxonomy Based on Organic Composition — 2007 NAI
- The Organic Volatile Composition of Comets: A Window on the Early Solar System — 2005 NAI
- The History of Evolution of the Martian Surface and Water on Mars — 2005 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
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Publications
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DiSanti, M. A., Villanueva, G. L., Milam, S. N., Zack, L. N., Bonev, B. P., Mumma, M. J., … Anderson, W. M. (2009). A multi-wavelength study of parent volatile abundances in Comet C/2006 M4 (SWAN). Icarus, 203(2), 589–598. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.05.026
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Fougere, N., Combi, M. R., Tenishev, V., Rubin, M., Bonev, B. P., & Mumma, M. J. (2012). Understanding measured water rotational temperatures and column densities in the very innermost coma of Comet 73P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 3 B. Icarus, 221(1), 174–185. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2012.07.019
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Mumma, M. J., Bonev, B. P., Villanueva, G. L., Paganini, L., DiSanti, M. A., Gibb, E. L., … Magee-Sauer, K. (2011). TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL ASPECTS OF GAS RELEASE DURING THE 2010 APPARITION OF COMET 103P/HARTLEY 2. The Astrophysical Journal, 734(1), L7. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/734/1/l7
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Paganini, L., Mumma, M. J., Bonev, B. P., Villanueva, G. L., DiSanti, M. A., Keane, J. V., & Meech, K. J. (2012). The formation heritage of Jupiter Family Comet 10P/Tempel 2 as revealed by infrared spectroscopy. Icarus, 218(1), 644–653. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2012.01.004
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Paganini, L., Mumma, M. J., Villanueva, G. L., DiSanti, M. A., Bonev, B. P., Lippi, M., & Boehnhardt, H. (2012). THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF CO-RICH COMET C/2009 P1 (GARRADD) AT R h = 2.4 and 2.0 AU BEFORE PERIHELION. The Astrophysical Journal, 748(1), L13. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/748/1/l13
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Radeva, Y. L., Mumma, M. J., Bonev, B. P., DiSanti, M. A., Villanueva, G. L., Magee-Sauer, K., … Weaver, H. A. (2010). The organic composition of Comet C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) revealed through infrared spectroscopy. Icarus, 206(2), 764–777. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2009.09.014
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Villanueva, G. L., Mumma, M. J., Bonev, B. P., Novak, R. E., Barber, R. J., & DiSanti, M. A. (2012). Water in planetary and cometary atmospheres: H2O/HDO transmittance and fluorescence models. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 113(3), 202–220. doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2011.11.001
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Villanueva, G. L., Mumma, M. J., DiSanti, M. A., Bonev, B. P., Gibb, E. L., Magee-Sauer, K., … Salyk, C. (2011). The molecular composition of Comet C/2007 W1 (Boattini): Evidence of a peculiar outgassing and a rich chemistry. Icarus, 216(1), 227–240. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.08.024
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Villanueva, G. L., Mumma, M. J., DiSanti, M. A., Bonev, B. P., Paganini, L., & Blake, G. A. (2012). A multi-instrument study of Comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd) at 2.1AU (pre-perihelion) from the Sun. Icarus, 220(1), 291–295. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2012.03.027
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- Mandell, A.M., Mumma, M.J., Blake, G.A., Bonev, B.P., Villanueva, G.L. & Salyk, C. (2008). Discovery of OH in Circumstellar Disks around Young Intermediate-Mass Stars. Ap.J, 681: L25. See Project
- Mumma, M.J., Bonev, B.P., DiSanti, M.A., Paganini, L., Villanueva, G.L., Radeva, Y.L., Gibb, E.L., Magee-Sauer, K., Keane, J.V. & Meech, K.J. (2010). Comet 103P/Hartley. IAU Circ (9180): 1 See Project
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