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USRA - Universities Space Research Association

USRA - Universities Space Research Association

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Scientific Publications

Listed below are selected recent scientific publications grouped by technical competency.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Ajello, M.; Rau, A.; Greiner, J.; Kanbach, G.; Salvato, M.; Strong, A. W.; Barthelmy, S. D.; Gehrels, N.; Markwardt, C. B.; Tueller, J. BAT X-ray Survey - III: X-ray Spectra and Statistical Properties. 9/2007, 2007arXiv0709.4333A; accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.

Becklin, E. E., Tielens, A. G. G. M., Gehrz, R. D., Callis, H. H. Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).8/2007. Infrared Spaceborne Remote Sensing and Instrumentation XV (SPIE). http://www.sofia.usra.edu/Science/SOFIA_ProgramSummary/07Aug_SPIE_BTGC.pdf

Norton, A. J.; Mukai, K.  A precessing accretion disc in the intermediate polar XY Arietis?  9/2007, 2007A&A...472..225N

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Biomedicine and Biotechnology

Li W, Kezele I, Collins DL, Zijdenbos A, Keyak J, Kornak J, Koyama A, Saeed, LeBlanc A, Harris T, Lu Y, and Lang T 2007. Voxel-based modeling and quantification of the proximal femur using inter-subject registration of quantitative CT images. Bone 41(5), 888-895. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bone.2007.07.006. November 2007.

Ponomarev AL, Nounu HN, Hussein HF, Kim MY, Atwell W, and FA Cucinotta 2007. NASA-developed ProE-based tool for the ray-tracing of spacecraft geometry to determine radiation doses and particle fluxes in habitable areas of spacecraft and in the human body. NASA/TP-2007-214770, November 2007. http://ston.jsc.nasa.gov/collections/TRS/_techrep/TP-2007-214770.pdf

Sibonga JD, Evans HJ, Sung HG, Spector ER, Lang TF, Oganov VS, Bakulin AV, Schakelford LC, and LeBlanc A 2007. Recovery of spaceflight-induced bone loss: Bone mineral density after long-duration missions as fitted with an exponential function. Bone 41(6) 973-978 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bone.2007.08.022. November 2007.

Zhou D, Semones E, Gaza R, Weyland M 2007. Radiation measured with passive dosimeters in low Earth orbit. Advances in Space Research 40(11) 1575- 1579. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2006.12.003. November 2007.

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Planetary Science

Treiman, Allan H. Ancient groundwater flow in the Valles Marineris on Mars inferred from fault trace ridges. Nature Geoscience 1, 181-183. Published online 24 February 2008. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1038/ngeo131

Watters, Thomas R., Bruce Campbell, Lynn Carter, Carl J. Leuschen, Jeffrey J. Plaut, Giovanni Picardi, Roberto Orosei, Ali Safaeinili, Stephen M. Clifford, William M. Farrell, Anton B. Ivanove, Roger J. Phillips, and Ellen R. Stofan. Radar Sounding of the Medusae Fossa Formation Mars: Equatorial Ice of Dry, Low-Density Deposits. Science 318, 1125-1128. Published online 31 October 2007. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1126/science.1148112