Jane Luu | Academic Influence

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Jane Luu

Physics

#1272

World Rank

#1993

Historical Rank

#554

USA Rank

Planetary Science

#59

World Rank

#60

Historical Rank

#36

USA Rank

Astronomy

#206

World Rank

#466

Historical Rank

#115

USA Rank

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Physics

Jane Luu's Degrees

Masters Physics University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Physics Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Jane X. Luu is a Vietnamese-American astronomer and defense systems engineer. She was awarded the Kavli Prize for 2012 "for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper Belt and its largest members, work that led to a major advance in the understanding of the history of our planetary system".

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Jane Luu's Published Works

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Published Works

Discovery of the candidate Kuiper belt object 1992 QB1 (1993) (407)
UBVRI Light Curves of 44 Type Ia Supernovae (2005) (277)
Crystalline water ice on the Kuiper belt object (50000) Quaoar (2004) (223)
Properties of the Trans-Neptunian Belt: Statistics from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Survey (2001) (215)
Color Diversity Among the Centaurs and Kuiper Belt Objects (1996) (191)
Large Kuiper Belt Objects: The Mauna Kea 8K CCD Survey (1998) (179)
Accretion in the Early Kuiper Belt. II. Fragmentation (1999) (174)
Colors and Spectra of Kuiper Belt Objects (2001) (168)
Accretion in the Early Kuiper Belt. I. Coagulation and Velocity Evolution (1998) (152)
Population and Size Distribution of Small Jovian Trojan Asteroids (2000) (151)
Kuiper Belt Objects: Relics from the Accretion Disk of the Sun (2002) (139)
The Mauna Kea-Cerro-Tololo (MKCT) Kuiper Belt and Centaur Survey (1996) (134)
A new dynamical class of object in the outer Solar System (1997) (116)
The Type IA Supernova 1989B in NGC 3627 (M66) (1994) (116)
Interstellar Interloper 1I/2017 U1: Observations from the NOT and WIYN Telescopes (2017) (116)
Cometary activity in 2060 Chiron (1990) (111)
Optical-Infrared Spectral Diversity in the Kuiper Belt (1998) (93)
Ten new BL Lacertae objects discovered by an efficient X-ray/radio/optical technique (1993) (89)
CCD spectra of asteroids. II - The Trojans as spectral analogs of cometary nuclei (1990) (89)
Accretion in the Early Outer Solar System (1999) (85)
Charge-coupled device spectra of asteroids. I. Near-earth and 3:1 resonance asteroids (1990) (83)
Population of the Scattered Kuiper Belt (1999) (81)
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Primitive Solar System Objects (1994) (81)
Water Ice in 2060 Chiron and Its Implications for Centaurs and Kuiper Belt Objects (2000) (77)
A CCD portrait of Comet P/Tempel 2 (1989) (73)
Initial Characterization of Interstellar Comet 2I/2019 Q4 (Borisov) (2019) (71)
Spectral Diversity among the Nuclei of Comets (1993) (64)
The nucleus of Comet P/Encke (1990) (61)
A Two-Part Search for Slow-Moving Objects (1988) (54)
Optical and Infrared Reflectance Spectrum of Kuiper Belt Object 1996 TL66 (1998) (52)
Large Bodies in the Kuiper Belt (2001) (51)
Deep Imaging of the Kuiper Belt with the Keck 10 Meter Telescope (1998) (42)
Near-aphelion CCD photometry of comet P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 2 (1992) (42)
High resolution surface brightness profiles of near-earth asteroids (1992) (41)
Reflection Spectrum of the Kuiper Belt Object 1993 SC (1996) (37)
On the relative numbers of C types and S types among near-earth asteroids (1989) (37)
CCD photometry and spectroscopy of the outer Jovian satellites (1991) (35)
Accretion in the Early Kuiper Belt (1999) (34)
Analysis of the Rotational Properties of Kuiper Belt Objects (2006) (33)
Physical Nature of the Kuiper Belt (2000) (30)
Acquisition algorithm for direct-detection ladars with Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes. (2008) (28)
Episodically Active Asteroid 6478 Gault (2019) (27)
On the detectability of lightcurves of Kuiper belt objects (2004) (27)
CCD Photometry of the Centaur 1995 GO (1997) (25)
Heterodyne detection with a weak local oscillator. (2008) (24)
Saturation effects in heterodyne detection with Geiger-mode InGaAs avalanche photodiode detector arrays. (2006) (24)
The submillimeter radio continuum of Comet P/Brorsen-Metcalf (1990) (21)
Submillimeter Continuum Emission from Comets (1992) (20)
The Interstellar Object ’Oumuamua as a Fractal Dust Aggregate (2019) (18)
Submillimeter Continuum Observations of 2060 Chiron (1992) (17)
Large Kuiper Belt Objects (1999) (16)
’Oumuamua as a Cometary Fractal Aggregate: The “Dust Bunny” Model (2020) (16)
COMETS DISGUISED AS ASTEROIDS (1994) (16)
Spectrophotometry of Four Kuiper Belt Objects with NICMOS (2000) (15)
COMETARY ACTIVITY IN DISTANT COMETS: CHIRON (1993) (15)
BVRI Light Curves for 22 Type Ia Supernovae (1999) (14)
Light Curves of Periodic vs Dynamically New Comets as a Function of R (1988) (12)
Comet Shoemaker-Levy (1993e) (1993) (11)
The Kuiper Belt (1996) (9)
Shadow Imaging Efforts at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (2008) (9)
Properties of Model Comae around Kuiper Belt and Centaur Objects (1998) (8)
Disintegrating Inbound Long-period Comet C/2019 J2 (2019) (6)
The Discus Comet: C/2014 B1 (Schwartz) (2019) (6)
Kuiper Belt: collisional production of dust around main-sequence stars. (1995) (5)
Rotational Mass Shedding from Asteroid (6478) Gault (2021) (5)
The Shape Distribution Of Kuiper Belt Objects (2003) (4)
Periodic Comet Tempel 2 (1987g) (1988) (3)
Pluto, perception & planetary politics (2007) (2)
Turbulence Mitigation for Coherent Ladar using Photon Counting Detector Arrays (2006) (2)
Coherent Photon Counting Ladar (2006) (2)
The Scattered Kuiper Belt Objects (1999) (1)
Highly folded 5 m Fourier transform spectrometer for spaceborne wind lidar. (2015) (1)
Activity in distant comets (1992) (1)
Twice In A Blue Moon (2016) (1)
An observational investigation of the comet-asteroid connection (1990) (1)
Colors of Kuiper Belt Objects from Keck and Subaru (2000) (1)
The Kuiper Belt and Circumstellar Disks (1994) (1)
The shapes and spins of Kuiper belt objects (2000) (0)
A Search for 23rd Magnitude Kuiper Belt Comets (1997) (0)
Rather than ending abruptly at the orbit of Pluto, the outer solar system contains an extended belt of small bodies (1996) (0)
Physical Properties of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov (2020) (0)
Submillimeter Photometry of Comets (1990) (0)
Comet 39P/2001 P3 (Oterma) (2001) (0)
Submillimeter Constraints on the Lifetimes of Circumstellar Dust Disks Around Young Stars (1991) (0)
Bright Kuiper Belt Objects (1997) (0)
Comet 108P/Ciffreo: The Blob (2023) (0)
Solar System: Twice in a blue moon (1997) (0)
UBVRILight Curves of 44 Type Ia Supernovae (2005) (0)
1995 DA2, 1995 DB2, 1995 DC2 (1995) (0)
Enlarging the Solar System: the Kuiper Belt (1996) (0)
THE ORIGIN OF THE SPINS OF KUIPER BELT OBJECTS (2006) (0)
1985 DO2 and (3908) 1980 PA (1989) (0)
A CCD comparison of outer Jovian satellites and Trojan asteroids (1991) (0)
A Semi-Automated Survey of the Outer Solar System (1997) (0)
CCD Spectra of Cometary Nuclei and Cometary Nucleus Candidates (1992) (0)
CCD Spectra of Near-Earth and 3:1 Resonance Asteroids (1990) (0)
New discoveries in the Kuiper belt (1998) (0)

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