Scientific Program




June 3


Section 1 - Thermal models

09:00     Licandro/Delbo        OPENING


09:15     M. Delbo            A brief historical perspective of the development of thermal/thermophysical modelling


09:45    Fumihiko Usui       Infrared Asteroid Survey with AKARI
 

10:15     A. Cellino           How to determine asteroid albedos: the role of Polarimetry


 

10:45    Coffee break

 

Section 2  - Asteroids


11:15    M. Viikinkoski       Asteroid shape modelling with ADAM: reconstructing Juno from ALMA observations


11:45    J. Hanus               Effects of shape uncertainties in thermal modeling and revised WISE uncertainties

12:15    M. Devogele          A method to search for large-scale concavities in asteroid shape models



12:45     Lunch break

 

Section 3  - Asteroids


14:00    E. Howell              SHERMAN: A Shape-based Thermophysical Model for Near-Earth Asteroids


14:30    S. Lowry              The Search for Observational Detections of the YORP Effect


15:00    P. Sevecek           Three-dimensional heat diffusion in boulders and the influence on the YORP effect


15:30    O. Golubov           Modelling Tangential YORP



 

16:00     Coffee break



 

Section 4  - Asteroids


16:30    Migo Mueller         Binary TPM + ExploreNEOs results


17:00    P. Tanga               L-type: rare remains of a first asteroid generation?


17:30    Z. Landsman        M-type Asteroids in the Mid-Infrared


18:00    J. Crowell             Thermophysical Model of 1627 Ivar



 


June 4
 

Section 5  - Icy Bodies



09:00    Y. Fernandez       Review of Observed Thermal Properties of Active Cometary Nuclei


09:30    M. Kelley             Thermal properties and models of comet dust


10:00    J. Licandro           When comets sleep: size, albedo and beaming parameter distribution of Asteroids in Cometary Orbits



 

10:30 coffee break



 

Section 6  - Icy Bodies


11:00    F. P. Schloerb        Rosetta/MIRO Observations of Subsurface Temperatures of the Nucleus of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko


11:30    Cedric Leyrat          Surface thermal properties of 67/P inferred by VIRTIS/Rosetta



12:00    J. Biele                   Operational Comet surface thermal models: lessons learnt from Rosetta/Philae


 

12:30 lunch break

 



Section 7  - Icy Bodies

14:00    V. Ali-Lagoa            Thermal effects in comet nuclei. The effects of thermal cracking


14:30    J. Emery                 Spectroscopy in the Mid-IR of comets, asteroids and other airless bodies.

15:00    C. A.  Schambeau   A New Analysis of Activity Drivers in the Enigmatic Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1


15:30     Coffee break    

 



Section 7  - Icy Bodies


 

16:00    E. Lellouch              Review talk on relevant Herschel results ("TNOs are Cool" and others)


16:30    P. Santos-Sanz        Thermal light curves of trans-Neptunian objects with Herschel-PACS  


17:00    P. Tanga                 The Gaia Mission 




17:30      *** ROUND TABLE ***



CONFERENCE DINNER


 

June 5

 

Section 7  - The Moon


09:00    Hayne                   Analysis of thermal data from LRO/DIVINER and thermal Eclipses


09:30    Ghent                   Moon's regolith properties from thermal IR data


10:00    L. Rubanenko        The effect of slope distribution on surface temperature of airless planetary bodies



 

10:30    Coffee Break



 

Section 8  - Laboratory and laboratory-related studies

11:00    N. Bowles           Laboratory spectroscopy measurements to support thermal infrared observations of airless bodies in the solar system

11:30    J.A. Arnold          The Oxford Thermal Emissivity for Regolith Model: Comparison with laboratory measurements

11:40    S. Lindsay           The Oxford Thermal Emissivity for Regolith Model (O-Therm): Model tests and improvements

11:50    T. J. Warren        OXFORD SPACE ENVIRONMENT GONIOMETER: Surface Roughness effects on the Directional Emissivity

12:10    M. Delbo             Thermal Cracking of surfaces of airless bodies: new experiments


12:30    J. Blum                Thermophysical modeling of granular surfaces


13:00     Lunch Break



 

Section 9  - Future perspectives & concluding remarks


14:15   B. Rozitis               Very detailed thermal studies of asteroids: OSIRS-REx


14:45   T. Okada                Thermal Infrared Experiments in Hayabusa2


15:15   E. M. MacLennan     Constraining Thermal Inertia using a Spherical TPM



 

15:45   Coffe break



 

Section 10  - Future perspectives & concluding remarks

16:15     
J. Durech            Beyond classical TPM: Shape optimization through analysis of thermal data


16:45     E. Kührt        Strategies and pitfalls of interpreting radiometric IR measurements 


17:15     Licandro/Delbo    Concluding Remarks