NAI
Geronimo Villanueva
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
- Exploring the Evolution of the Water and Organic Reservoirs in the Solar System — 2015 NAI
- The Variability of Carbon Monoxide Abundances Among Oort Cloud Comets — 2014 NAI
- Fundamental Properties Revealed by Parent Volatiles in Comets — 2014 NAI
- Volatile Composition of Comets: Emphasis on Oxidized Carbon — 2014 NAI
- Remote Sensing of Organic Volatiles on Mars and Modeling of Cometary Atmospheres — 2014 NAI
- Fundamental Properties Revealed by Parent Volatiles in Comets — 2013 NAI
- Undergraduate Research Associates in Astrobiology (URAA) — 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
- The Astrobiology Walk — 2013 NAI
- Undergraduate Research Associates in Astrobiology (URAA) — 2013 NAI
- Remote Sensing of Organic Volatiles in Planetary and Cometary Atmospheres — 2012 NAI
- Remote Sensing of Organic Volatiles in Planetary and Cometary Atmospheres — 2011 NAI
- Summer Undergraduate Internships in Astrobiology — 2009 NAI
- Summer Undergraduate Internship in Astrobiology — 2008 NAI
- Search for Biomarker Gases on Mars — 2007 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
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NAI Project Collaborators
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Publications
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Bodewits, D., Villanueva, G. L., Mumma, M. J., Landsman, W. B., Carter, J. A., & Read, A. M. (2010). SWIFT -UVOT GRISM SPECTROSCOPY OF COMETS: A FIRST APPLICATION TO C/2007 N3 (LULIN). The Astronomical Journal, 141(1), 12. doi:10.1088/0004-6256/141/1/12
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De Val-Borro, M., Hartogh, P., Jarchow, C., Rengel, M., Villanueva, G. L., Küppers, M., … Crovisier, J. (2012). Submillimetric spectroscopic observations of volatiles in comet C/2004 Q2 (Machholz). A&A, 545, A2. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201219172
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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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Gibb, E. L., Bonev, B. P., Villanueva, G., DiSanti, M. A., Mumma, M. J., Sudholt, E., & Radeva, Y. (2012). CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF COMET C/2007 N3 (LULIN): ANOTHER ‘‘ATYPICAL’’ COMET. The Astrophysical Journal, 750(2), 102. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/750/2/102
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Mandell, A. M., Bast, J., Van Dishoeck, E. F., Blake, G. A., Salyk, C., Mumma, M. J., & Villanueva, G. (2012). FIRST DETECTION OF NEAR-INFRARED LINE EMISSION FROM ORGANICS IN YOUNG CIRCUMSTELLAR DISKS. The Astrophysical Journal, 747(2), 92. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/747/2/92
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Mandell, A. M., Deming, L. D., Blake, G. A., Knutson, H. A., Mumma, M. J., Villanueva, G. L., & Salyk, C. (2011). NON-DETECTION OFL-BAND LINE EMISSION FROM THE EXOPLANET HD189733b. The Astrophysical Journal, 728(1), 18. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/728/1/18
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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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Novak, R. E., Mumma, M. J., & Villanueva, G. L. (2011). Measurement of the isotopic signatures of water on Mars; Implications for studying methane. Planetary and Space Science, 59(2-3), 163–168. doi:10.1016/j.pss.2010.06.017
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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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Radeva, Y. L., Mumma, M. J., Villanueva, G. L., & A’Hearn, M. F. (2011). A NEWLY DEVELOPED FLUORESCENCE MODEL FOR C 2 H 6 ν 5 AND APPLICATION TO COMETARY SPECTRA ACQUIRED WITH NIRSPEC AT KECK II. The Astrophysical Journal, 729(2), 135. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/729/2/135
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Villanueva, G. L., DiSanti, M. A., Mumma, M. J., & Xu, L-H. (2012). A QUANTUM BAND MODEL OF THE ν 3 FUNDAMENTAL OF METHANOL (CH 3 OH) AND ITS APPLICATION TO FLUORESCENCE SPECTRA OF COMETS. The Astrophysical Journal, 747(1), 37. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/747/1/37
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Villanueva, G. L., Mumma, M. J., & Magee-Sauer, K. (2011). Ethane in planetary and cometary atmospheres: Transmittance and fluorescence models of the ν 7 band at 3.3 μ m. Journal of Geophysical Research, 116(E8), None. doi:10.1029/2010je003794
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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., Des Marais, D.J., Baross, J., Sherwood Lollar, B., Hand, K., Villanueva, G., House, C., Ferry, G., McCollom, T., Sotin, C., Goldman, S., Vance, S. & Painter, T. (2010). The astrobiology of Mars: Methane and other candidate biomarker gases, and related interdisciplinary studies on Earth and Mars [abstract 5590]. Astrobiology Science Conference 2010. 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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