Profile

Walter Harris

Chief Scientist | Associate Director, Community Engagement S4 Space Center | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Professor, Planetary Sciences | Professor, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

Planetary Sciences

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Research

Collaboration(23)

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Grants(18)

High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Far UV Hydrogen Emission from Star Forming Regions using Spatial Heterodyne Interferometry
Active·2023·$144.3K / $641.5K·
External
Co-Investigator (COI)
spectroscopy, far uv, star formation, hydrogen emission, interferometry
Extending High Sensitivity Velocity Resolved Measurements of Solar System Dynamics into the EUV. Advancement of the Spatial Heterodyne EUV Interferometer (SHEUVI)
Active·2023·$152.4K / $304.7K·
External
Co-Investigator (COI)
solar system dynamics, euv interferometer, velocity measurements, solar euv radiation, spatial heterodyne
Reflective Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometers for High-Resolving Power Emission Line Characterization from Orbital and Remote Missions
Active·2017·$2M·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
spectrometers, emission lines, remote sensing, spatial heterodyne, high-resolving power
Inner Coma Grain Environments of Jupiter Family Comets
2020·$90K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
cometary science, grain distribution, jupiter-family comets, inner coma
Composition and Physical Processes of Comet 2I/Borisov
2020·$49.3K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
cometary composition, physical processes, cometary dynamics, astronomical observations, space exploration

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Publications(97)

Recent

29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann: A Rosetta Stone for Amorphous Water Ice and CO$2$ CO Conversion in Centaurs and Comets?

2023

cometary studies, ice chemistry, rosetta mission, centaurs, water ice

Ice, Ice, Maybe? Investigating 46P/Wirtanen's Inner Coma for Icy Grains

2023

cometary science, icy particles, comet 46p/wirtanen, astrochemistry, space exploration

29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1: An Excellent Nearby Laboratory for Studying Amorphous Crystalline Water Ice Conversion in Centaurs and Comets

2023

crystalline ice conversion, amorphous ice, centaurs, schwassmann-wachmann 1

The Evolution of Activity and Chemical Composition in Rosetta's Comet Targets across Multiple Apparitions: Complications for CS$2$ as the CS Parent in Comet Nuclei

2023

cometary chemistry, cometary activity, cometary evolution, chemical composition, comet nuclei

Erratum: FUV Observations of the Inner Coma of 46P/Wirtanen' 2021, PSJ, 2, 8)

2023

cometary science, astronomy, data analysis, erratum correction, space exploration

`Operating spacecraft around comets: Evaluation of the near-nucleus environment'

2022

spacecraft operations, near-nucleus environment, space exploration, astronomical research

Near-infrared Spectroscopy of the Nucleus of Low-activity Comet P/2016 BA$14$ during Its 2016 Close Approach

2022

cometary science, spectroscopy, near-infrared, comet nucleus

Reflective Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometers RSHS) A high resolving power broadband spectral sensor for the EUV-NIR

2022

spectral sensing, reflective optics, high-resolution spectroscopy, euv-nir, heterodyne spectroscopy

29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1: A Rosetta Stone for Amorphous Water Ice and CO CO$2$ Conversion in Centaurs and Comets?

2022

cometary composition, amorphous ice, centaurs, rosetta mission, co2 conversion

Volatile Abundances, Extended Coma Sources, and Nucleus Ice Associations in Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy)

2022

cometary science, ice associations, volatile abundances, coma sources, nucleus composition

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Walter Harris

Collaboration(23)

Alfred McEwen

Roberto Furfaro

Michael Nolan

Dante Lauretta

Christopher Hamilton

Grants(18)

High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Far UV Hydrogen Emission from Star Forming Regions using Spatial Heterodyne Interferometry

Extending High Sensitivity Velocity Resolved Measurements of Solar System Dynamics into the EUV. Advancement of the Spatial Heterodyne EUV Interferometer (SHEUVI)

Reflective Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometers for High-Resolving Power Emission Line Characterization from Orbital and Remote Missions

Inner Coma Grain Environments of Jupiter Family Comets

Composition and Physical Processes of Comet 2I/Borisov

Publications(97)

29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann: A Rosetta Stone for Amorphous Water Ice and CO$2$ CO Conversion in Centaurs and Comets?

Ice, Ice, Maybe? Investigating 46P/Wirtanen's Inner Coma for Icy Grains

29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1: An Excellent Nearby Laboratory for Studying Amorphous Crystalline Water Ice Conversion in Centaurs and Comets

The Evolution of Activity and Chemical Composition in Rosetta's Comet Targets across Multiple Apparitions: Complications for CS$2$ as the CS Parent in Comet Nuclei

Erratum: FUV Observations of the Inner Coma of 46P/Wirtanen' 2021, PSJ, 2, 8)

`Operating spacecraft around comets: Evaluation of the near-nucleus environment'

Near-infrared Spectroscopy of the Nucleus of Low-activity Comet P/2016 BA$14$ during Its 2016 Close Approach

Reflective Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometers RSHS) A high resolving power broadband spectral sensor for the EUV-NIR

29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1: A Rosetta Stone for Amorphous Water Ice and CO CO$2$ Conversion in Centaurs and Comets?

Volatile Abundances, Extended Coma Sources, and Nucleus Ice Associations in Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy)