Scientific Research

Since November 2007, I am a researcher with the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), supporting the New Horizons Pluto mission and continuing my circum/interplanetary dust charging and dynamics and the origin of water on the terrestrial planets.

I am an affiliate (and previously an associate) researcher with the Planetary Science Institute (PSI).

From January 2003-October 2007, I was at the Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI), Nazionale Astrofisica Osservatorio, Rome, where I had scientific/mission work for existing and in-the-process-of-being- built infrared spectrometers on space missions: Cassini, Rosetta, Dawn.

In July 2001, I completed a Physics PhD from Universität Heidelberg and Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, researching the charged dust dynamics of the Jovian dust streams.

Here are some recent dust-related research papers that I've written or contributed to:

• Graps, A.L, Jones, G.H., Juhasz, A., Horanyi, M., Havnes, O. (2008), "The Charging of Planetary Rings", in _Planetary Atmospheric Electricity_, ed.: Aplin K., Harrison R.G., Leblanc F.,Treumann R., Yair Y., Space Sciences Series of ISSI, Springer, accepted May 28, in press (Fall 2008).

• Krüger, H. and Graps, A. coeditors, "Dust in Planetary Systems" (Workshop, September 26-30 2005, Kauai, Hawaii), ESA Publications, SP-643, January 2007.
  Individual Chapters and Whole Book (PDF, 35 Mb), BibTeX file of the Book, Chapters at NASA ADS, Cover, Front Matter, Index, List of Participants.

• A. L. Graps, Green, S.F., McBride, N.M., McDonnell, J.A.M., Bunte, K., Svedhem, H., and Drolshagen, G., "GEO Debris and Interplanetary Dust: Fluxes and Charging Behavior", in "Dust in Planetary Systems", Krüger, H. and Graps, A. eds., ESA Publications, SP-643 in press (February 2007). arXiv archive, and in high resolution version.

  Graps, A.L., "Characterization of Jovian Plasma-Embedded Dust Particles," (2006), Planetary and Space Sciences, Volume 54, Issues 9-10, Physics of Dusty Rings, Pages 911-918. arXiv archive, and PSS.

• Krüger, Harald; Graps, Amara L.; Flandes, Alberto; Forsythe, Robert J.; Hamilton, Douglas P.; Horányi, Mihaly; Grün, Eberhard, "Ulysses jovian latitude scan of electromagnetically interacting dust streams", (2006), Planetary and Space Sciences, Volume 54, Issues 9-10, Pages 919-931, PSS.

• Harald Krüger, Mihaly Horányi, Alexander V. Krivov, and Amara L. Graps (2004), "Jovian Dust: Streams, Clouds and Rings," in: Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites & Magnetosphere, eds. F. Bagenal, W. McKinnon, T. Dowling, Cambridge University Press.

• Io Revealed in the Jovian Dust Streams", Amara Lynn Graps, PhD Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg (Germany), July 2001.

• "Io as a Source of the Jovian Dust Streams", by Graps, A. L., Grün, E., Svedhem, H. Krüger, H., Horányi, M., Heck, A., Lammers, S., Nature 405, 48-50 (May 4, 2000)
  [HTML: Abstract, Press, Paper, and PDF].

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Technical Writing

I wrote a popular science article about cosmic dust for the American astronomy magazine Sky and Telescope.

• "Dusty Phenomena in the Solar System", by Amara Graps and Antal Juhász, January 2001.

Occasionally, I write popular science articles about astronomical or scientific computing for the British trade journal Scientific Computing World.

• "Parallel Computing Allows Fluid Approach to Astrophysics", October/November 1999 (Cover).
• "N-body Simulations Push Hardware and Software Limits", April 1999.
• "Probability Offers Link Between Theory and Reality", October 1998.
• "Wavelets are Stars in Astronomy Problems", April 1998.
• "Interpreting the Sun's Vibrations", October 1997 (Cover).

Other Writing

I am writing a book of vignette adventures, discoveries of my present and past years.

Meetings

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Contact

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