JWST + NIRSpec Cookbook

As the dealine for Cycle 1 General Observations is approaching (2018 April 6th – see here), I have put up a cookbook specific to solar system observations with NIRSpec. Owing to the GTO and ERS proposals, I have been through the process of using the ETC...

Active Centaurs

The need for a particular figure in the review paper that the ISSI team is writing on Main Belt Comets was for me the occasion to get back to my work on active Centaurs. I thought I’d say a word about that here… Centaurs are a population of icy bodies...

ISSI Team on Main Belt Comets

This week, the ISSI team led by Colin Snodgrass was meeting in wintery Bern, Switzerland. This has been an intense and fruitful week discussing the current state of our understanding of Main Belt Comets, and in particular of the detection of water (either gas or ice)...

Spectral mapping of comet 67P – DPS/EPSC 2016

This year, the two major international conferences for planteray science – DPS and EPSC – are joined in Pasadena, CA. Obviously, I’m excited to see the great results from the three space missions currently investigating small bodies: ESA/Rosetta,...

Thermal processing of 67P – ESLAB 2016

Credits: Ekatarina Smirnova – http://www.ekaterina-smirnova.com/50th-eslab/ From Giotto to Rosetta. The 50th ESLAB symposium was focussed on 30 years of cometary science, triggered by these two impressive space missions. I’ve been invited to talk about the...

Modeling the evolution of comets

Welcome to this new webpage, where I hope I’ll be able to share some of my research! Articles published in peer-reviewed journals can be found here. I have two main areas of expertise: observations of small bodies, and modeling of their thermo-physical...