Current Grants

Principal Investigator:

Application of Machine Learning to Giant Impact Studies of Planet Formation 
Program name: NASA Planetary Science Division
Performance period: 04/15/19 – 04/14/22

Co-Investigator:

Psyche: Journey to a Metal World
PI: Prof. Linda Elkins-Tanton (ASU)
Program name: NASA Discovery Program, Science Mission Directorate 
Performance period: 02/15/17 – 09/15/2027

A Further Understanding of Bennu's Surface: Developing and Constraining Particle-Based Methods
PI: Dr. Stephen Schwartz (UA)
Program name: OSIRIS-REx Participating Scientist Program, NASA New Frontiers Program, Science Mission Directorate
Period of performance: 12/1/2017 to 11/30/2020

Scale-Dependent Measurements of Meteorite Strength: Implications for the Fragmentation of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
PI: Prof. Desiree Cotto-Figueroa (UPRH)
Program name: NASA Solar System Observations
Period of performance: 08/01/2018 to 07/31/21 

Current Spacecraft Involvement

• Co-I, Psyche
• Science Board, MMX (Martian Moons eXploration, JAXA)

Former Spacecraft Involvement

• Co-I, Lunar Cratering Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), NASA Ames (2006-2010; PI: T. Colaprete)
• Associate, Galileo Solid State Imaging Science Team (1996-2003; PI: M. Belton)

• Travis Gabriel (ASU)

Current Postdocs

• Alexandre Emsenhuber
• Stephen Schwartz

Former Postdocs

• Alan Jackson (2013-2016)
• Desiree Cotto-Figueroa (2013-2015)
• Andreas Reufer (2013, 2014)
• Naor Movshovitz (2013)
• Shangfei Liu (2013-2015)
• Martin Jutzi (2009-2011)
• Lindsey Chambers (2008-2011)
• Misha Kreslavsky (2006-2012)
• Don Korycansky (2000-2002)
• Craig Agnor (2002-2004)

Based on Google Scholar and NASA ADS: NASA ADS Author search: Erik Asphaug

Refereed publications: Calendar Years 2017 through June 2020

R. T. Nallapu, S. R. Schwartz, E. Asphaug and J. Thangavelautham, "Robust Spin Control Design for the AOSAT+ Mission Concept," in IEEE Journal on Miniaturization for Air and Space Systems, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 10-31, June 2020, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2020.2974615.

Asphaug, E. Interiors of small bodies and moons 2020NatCo..11.1564A

Elkins-Tanton, L. T., Asphaug, E., Bell, J. F., Bercovici, H., Bills, B., Binzel, R., Bottke, W. F., Dibb, S., Lawrence, D. J., Marchi, S., McCoy, T. J., Oran, R., Park, R. S., Peplowski, P. N., Polanskey, C. A., Prettyman, T. H., Russell, C. T., Schaefer, L., Weiss, B. P., Wieczorek, M. A., Williams, D. A., Zuber, M. T. Observations, Meteorites, and Models: A Preflight Assessment of the Composition and Formation of (16) Psyche 2020JGRE..12506296E

Gabriel, T. S. J., Jackson, A. P., Asphaug, E., Reufer, A., Jutzi, M., Benz, W. Gravity-dominated Collisions: A Model for the Largest Remnant Masses with Treatment for "Hit and Run" and Density Stratification 2020ApJ...892...40G

Emsenhuber, A., Cambioni, S., Asphaug, E., Gabriel, T. S. J., Schwartz, S. R., Furfaro, R. Realistic On-the-fly Outcomes of Planetary Collisions. II. Bringing Machine Learning to N-body Simulations 2020ApJ...891....6E

Marsset, M., Brož, M., Vernazza, P., Drouard, A., Castillo-Rogez, J., Hanuš, J., Viikinkoski, M., Rambaux, N., Carry, B., Jorda, L., Ševeček, P., Birlan, M., Marchis, F., Podlewska-Gaca, E., Asphaug, E., Bartczak, P., Berthier, J., Cipriani, F., Colas, F., Dudziński, G., Dumas, C., Durech, J., Ferrais, M., Fétick, R., Fusco, T., Jehin, E., Kaasalainen, M., Kryszczynska, A., Lamy, P., Le Coroller, H., Marciniak, A., Michalowski, T., Michel, P., Richardson, D. C., Santana-Ros, T., Tanga, P., Vachier, F., Vigan, A., Witasse, O., Yang, B. The violent collisional history of aqueously evolved (2) Pallas 2020NatAs.tmp...24M

Wright, E., Quillen, A. C., South, J., Nelson, R. C., Sánchez, P., Martini, L., Schwartz, S. R., Nakajima, M., Asphaug, E. Boulder stranding in ejecta launched by an impact generated seismic pulse 2020Icar..33713424W

Marchi, S., Durda, D. D., Polanskey, C. A., Asphaug, E., Bottke, W. F., Elkins-Tanton, L. T., Garvie, L. A. J., Ray, S., Chocron, S., Williams, D. A. Hypervelocity Impact Experiments in Iron-Nickel Ingots and Iron Meteorites: Implications for the NASA Psyche Mission 2020JGRE..12505927M

Emsenhuber, A., Asphaug, E. Graze-and-merge Collisions under External Perturbers 2019ApJ...881..102E

Sava, P., Asphaug, E. Seismology on small planetary bodies by orbital laser Doppler vibrometry 2019AdSpR..64..527S

Cambioni, S., Delbo, M., Ryan, A. J., Furfaro, R., Asphaug, E. Constraining the thermal properties of planetary surfaces using machine learning: Application to airless bodies 2019Icar..325...16C

Walsh, K. J., Jawin, E. R., Ballouz, R.-L., Barnouin, O. S., Bierhaus, E. B., Connolly, H. C., Molaro, J. L., McCoy, T. J., Delbo', M., Hartzell, C. M., Pajola, M., Schwartz, S. R., Trang, D., Asphaug, E., Becker, K. J., Beddingfield, C. B., Bennett, C. A., Bottke, W. F., Burke, K. N., Clark, B. C., Daly, M. G., Dellagiustina, D. N., Dworkin, J. P., Elder, C. M., Golish, D. R., Hildebrand, A. R., Malhotra, R., Marshall, J., Michel, P., Nolan, M. C., Perry, M. E., Rizk, B., Ryan, A., Sandford, S. A., Scheeres, D. J., Susorney, H. C. M., Thuillet, F., Lauretta, D. S., Osiris-Rex Team Publisher Correction: Craters, boulders and regolith of (101955) Bennu indicative of an old and dynamic surface 2019NatGe..12..399W

Emsenhuber, A., Asphaug, E. Fate of the Runner in Hit-and-run Collisions 2019ApJ...875...95E

Cambioni, S., Asphaug, E., Emsenhuber, A., Gabriel, T. S. J., Furfaro, R., Schwartz, S. R. Realistic On-the-fly Outcomes of Planetary Collisions: Machine Learning Applied to Simulations of Giant Impacts 2019ApJ...875...40C

Walsh, K. J., Jawin, E. R., Ballouz, R.-L., Barnouin, O. S., Bierhaus, E. B., Connolly, H. C., Molaro, J. L., McCoy, T. J., Delbo', M., Hartzell, C. M., Pajola, M., Schwartz, S. R., Trang, D., Asphaug, E., Becker, K. J., Beddingfield, C. B., Bennett, C. A., Bottke, W. F., Burke, K. N., Clark, B. C., Daly, M. G., Dellagiustina, D. N., Dworkin, J. P., Elder, C. M., Golish, D. R., Hildebrand, A. R., Malhotra, R., Marshall, J., Michel, P., Nolan, M. C., Perry, M. E., Rizk, B., Ryan, A., Sandford, S. A., Scheeres, D. J., Susorney, H. C. M., Thuillet, F., Lauretta, D. S., Osiris-Rex Team Craters, boulders and regolith of (101955) Bennu indicative of an old and dynamic surface 2019NatGe..12..242W

Dellagiustina, D. N., Emery, J. P., Golish, D. R., Rozitis, B., Bennett, C. A., Burke, K. N., Ballouz, R.-L., Becker, K. J., Christensen, P. R., Drouet D'Aubigny, C. Y., Hamilton, V. E., Reuter, D. C., Rizk, B., Simon, A. A., Asphaug, E., Bandfield, J. L., Barnouin, O. S., Barucci, M. A., Bierhaus, E. B., Binzel, R. P., Bottke, W. F., Bowles, N. E., Campins, H., Clark, B. C., Clark, B. E., Connolly, H. C., Daly, M. G., Leon, J. D., Delbo', M., Deshapriya, J. D. P., Elder, C. M., Fornasier, S., Hergenrother, C. W., Howell, E. S., Jawin, E. R., Kaplan, H. H., Kareta, T. R., Le Corre, L., Li, J.-Y., Licandro, J., Lim, L. F., Michel, P., Molaro, J., Nolan, M. C., Pajola, M., Popescu, M., Garcia, J. L. R., Ryan, A., Schwartz, S. R., Shultz, N., Siegler, M. A., Smith, P. H., Tatsumi, E., Thomas, C. A., Walsh, K. J., Wolner, C. W. V., Zou, X.-D., Lauretta, D. S., Osiris-Rex Team Properties of rubble-pile asteroid (101955) Bennu from OSIRIS-REx imaging and thermal analysis 2019NatAs...3..341D

Stopar, J. D., Jolliff, B. L., Speyerer, E. J., Asphaug, E. I., Robinson, M. S. Potential impact-induced water-solid reactions on the Moon 2018P&SS..162..157S

Belton, M. J. S., Zou, X.-D., Li, J.-Y., Asphaug, E. On the origin of internal layers in comet nuclei 2018Icar..314..364B

Michel, P., Kueppers, M., Sierks, H., Carnelli, I., Cheng, A. F., Mellab, K., Granvik, M., Kestilä, A., Kohout, T., Muinonen, K., Näsilä, A., Penttila, A., Tikka, T., Tortora, P., Ciarletti, V., Hérique, A., Murdoch, N., Asphaug, E., Rivkin, A., Barnouin, O., Bagatin, A. C., Pravec, P., Richardson, D. C., Schwartz, S. R., Tsiganis, K., Ulamec, S., Karatekin, O. European component of the AIDA mission to a binary asteroid: Characterization and interpretation of the impact of the DART mission 2018AdSpR..62.2261M

Herique, A., Agnus, B., Asphaug, E., Barucci, A., Beck, P., Bellerose, J., Biele, J., Bonal, L., Bousquet, P., Bruzzone, L., Buck, C., Carnelli, I., Cheng, A., Ciarletti, V., Delbo, M., Du, J., Du, X., Eyraud, C., Fa, W., Gil Fernandez, J., Gassot, O., Granados-Alfaro, R., Green, S. F., Grieger, B., Grundmann, J. T., Grygorczuk, J., Hahnel, R., Heggy, E., Ho, T.-M., Karatekin, O., Kasaba, Y., Kobayashi, T., Kofman, W., Krause, C., Kumamoto, A., Küppers, M., Laabs, M., Lange, C., Lasue, J., Levasseur-Regourd, A. C., Mallet, A., Michel, P., Mottola, S., Murdoch, N., Mütze, M., Oberst, J., Orosei, R., Plettemeier, D., Rochat, S., RodriguezSuquet, R., Rogez, Y., Schaffer, P., Snodgrass, C., Souyris, J.-C., Tokarz, M., Ulamec, S., Wahlund, J.-E., Zine, S. Direct observations of asteroid interior and regolith structure: Science measurement requirements 2018AdSpR..62.2141H

Vernazza, P., Brož, M., Drouard, A., Hanuš, J., Viikinkoski, M., Marsset, M., Jorda, L., Fetick, R., Carry, B., Marchis, F., Birlan, M., Fusco, T., Santana-Ros, T., Podlewska-Gaca, E., Jehin, E., Ferrais, M., Bartczak, P., Dudziński, G., Berthier, J., Castillo-Rogez, J., Cipriani, F., Colas, F., Dumas, C., Ďurech, J., Kaasalainen, M., Kryszczynska, A., Lamy, P., Le Coroller, H., Marciniak, A., Michalowski, T., Michel, P., Pajuelo, M., Tanga, P., Vachier, F., Vigan, A., Warner, B., Witasse, O., Yang, B., Asphaug, E., Richardson, D. C., Ševeček, P., Gillon, M., Benkhaldoun, Z. The impact crater at the origin of the Julia family detected with VLT/SPHERE? 2018A&A...618A.154V

Sava, P., Asphaug, E. 3D radar wavefield migration of comet interiors 2018AdSpR..62.1146S

Perera, V., Jackson, A. P., Elkins-Tanton, L. T., Asphaug, E. Effect of Reimpacting Debris on the Solidification of the Lunar Magma Ocean 2018JGRE..123.1168P

Benavidez, P. G., Durda, D. D., Enke, B., Campo Bagatin, A., Richardson, D. C., Asphaug, E., Bottke, W. F. Impact simulation in the gravity regime: Exploring the effects of parent body size and internal structure 2018Icar..304..143B

Sava, P., Asphaug, E. 3D radar wavefield tomography of comet interiors 2018AdSpR..61.2198S

Jackson, A. P., Gabriel, T. S. J., Asphaug, E. I. Constraints on the pre-impact orbits of Solar system giant impactors 2018MNRAS.474.2924J

Golabek, G. J., Emsenhuber, A., Jutzi, M., Asphaug, E. I., Gerya, T. V. Coupling SPH and thermochemical models of planets: Methodology and example of a Mars-sized body 2018Icar..301..235G

Lightholder, J., Thoesen, A., Adamson, E., Jakubowski, J., Nallapu, R., Smallwood, S., Raura, L., Klesh, A., Asphaug, E., Thangavelautham, J. Asteroid Origins Satellite (AOSAT) I: An On-orbit Centrifuge Science Laboratory 2017AcAau.133...81L