Peer Reviewed Publications

 

  • P. Lierle, C. Schmidt, J. Baumgardner, L. Moore and E. Lovett (2023) The Rapid Imaging Planetary Spectrograph. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, under review


  • J. P. Morgenthaler, C. A. Schmidt, N. M. Schneider, M. Marconi and M. F. Vogt (2023) Fall 2022: Largest gas-rich Io volcanic outburst observed in Juno era. Geophysical Research Letters, under review


  • A. V. Oza, J. V. Seidel, A. Gebek, A. Kesseli, H. J. Hoeijmakers, C. A. Schmidt, M. Meyer zu Westram, U. Athira, S. Torres, T. Sivarani, I. Bhatnagar, C. Fisher, S. Charnoz, A.D. Baker, S.P. Halverson, K. de Kleer, R. Hu, R. Lopes, N. Schneider, R. E. Johnson and A. Wyttenbach (2023) Sodium Haze Orbiting Near the Tidal Disintegration Limit of a Rocky Exomoon: Time-Series Na D2 and Doppler Shifts Identified at the Exo-Io Candidate WASP-49 b. Astronomy & Astrophysics, under review


  • D. Bhattacharyya, J. T. Clarke, M. Mayyasi, V. Shematovich, D. Bisikalo, J. Y. Chaufray, E. Thiemann, J. Halekas, C. Schmidt, J. L. Bertaux, M. S. Chaffin, and N. M. Schneider (2023) Evidence of Hot Hydrogen in the Exosphere of Mars Resulting in Enhanced Water Loss. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, under review


  • Q. Zhang, K. Battams, Q. Ye, M. Knight and C. Schmidt (2023) Sodium Brightening of (3200) Phaethon Near Perihelion. The Planetary Science Journal, under review


  • K. de Kleer, Z. Milby. C. Schmidt, M. Camarca, and M. Brown (2023) The Optical and Near-Infrared Aurorae of Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. The Planetary Science Journal,Vol. 4, 37, https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/acb53c


  • C. Schmidt, M. Sharov, K. de Kleer, N. Schneider, I. de Pater, P.H. Phipps, A. Conrad, L. Moore, P. Withers, J. Spencer, J. Morgenthaler, I. Ilyin, K. Strassmeier, C. Veillet, J. Hill, and M. Brown (2023) Io's Optical Aurorae in Jupiter's Shadow. The Planetary Science Journal, Vol. 4, 36, https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac85b0


  • P. R. Lierle, C. Schmidt, J. Baumgardner, L. Moore, T. Bida and R. Swindle (2022) The Spatial Distribution and Temperature of Mercury's Potassium Exosphere. The Planetary Science Journal, Vol. 3, 87, https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac5c4d


  • C. Schmidt (2022) Doppler-Shifted Alkali D Absorption as Indirect Evidence for Exo-moons. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, Vol. 9, 801873 https://doi.org/10.3389/fspas.2022.801873


  • C. Schmidt and J. Baumgardner (2022) Lunar Atmosphere, Alkali Lunar Exosphere in Encyclopedia of Lunar Science, Editors B. Cudnik and C. Ahrens, Springer https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05546-6_230-1


  • F. Leblanc, C. Schmidt, V. Mangano, A. Mura, G. Cremonese, J. M. Raines, J.M. Jasinski, M. Sarantos, A. Milillo, R.M. Killen, S. Massetti, T. Cassidy, R.J. Vervack Jr., S. Kameda, M.T. Capria, M. Horanyi, D. Janches, A. Berezhnoy, A. Christou, T. Hirai, P. Lierle, J. Morgenthaler (2022) Comparative Na and K Mercury and Moon exospheres. Space Science Reviews, 218, 2 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-022-00871-w


  • A. L. E. Werner, S. Aizawa, F. Leblanc, J. Y. Chaufray, R. Modolo, J. M. Raines, W. Exner, U. Motschmann and C. Schmidt (2022) Ion density and phase space density distribution of planetary ions Na+, O+ and He+ in Mercury's magnetosphere. Icarus, Vol. 372, 114734 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114734


  • T. A. Cassidy, C. Schmidt, A. Merkel, J. Jasinski and M. Burger (2021) Detection of Large Exospheric Enhancements at Mercury due to Meteoroid Impacts. Planetary Science Journal, V2, 175 https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac1a19


  • V. Mangano and 61 co-authors including C. Schmidt (2021) BepiColombo science investigations during cruise and fybys at the Earth, Venus and Mercury. Space Science Reviews, 217, 23 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-021-00797-9


  • J. Baumgardner, S. Luettgen, C. Schmidt, M. Mayyasi, S. Smith, C. Martinis, J. Wroten, L. Moore and M. Mendillo (2021) The Moon's Extended Sodium Tail, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 126, e2020JE006671 https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006671


  • C. Schmidt, J. Baumgardner, L. Moore, T. A. Bida, R. Swindle and P. Lierle (2020) The Rapid Imaging Planetary Spectrograph: Observations of Mercury's Sodium Exosphere in Twilight. The Planetary Science Journal, V1(4) https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ab76c9


  • A. Oza, R.E. Johnson, E. Lellouch, C. Schmidt, N. Schneider, C. Huang, D. Gamborino, A. Gebek, A. Wyttenbach and B-O Demory. (2019) Sodium and Potassium as Remnants of Volcanic Satellites Orbiting Close-in Gas Giant Exoplanets. Astrophysical Journal, V885(2)
    • https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab40cc

  • L. Moore, H. Melin, T. Stallard, J. O'Donoghue, J. Moses, S. Miller and C. Schmidt (2019) Modelling H3+ in Planetary Atmospheres: Effects of Vertical Gradients on Observed Quantities. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 377. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2019.0067


  • J. Morgenthaler, J. Rathbun, C. Schmidt, J. Baumgardner and N. Schneider (2019) Large Volcanic Event on Io Inferred from Jovian Sodium Nebula Brightening, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, V871(2), article id. L23, 6 pp. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aafdb7


  • R. E. Johnson, A. Oza, F. Leblanc, C. Schmidt, and T. A. Nordheim (2019) The Origin and Fate of O2 in Europa's Ice: An Atmospheric Perspective. Space Science Reviews, Vol. 215 (1), article id. 20 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-019-0582-1


  • A. Oza, F. Leblanc, R. E. Johnson, C. Schmidt, L. Leclercq, T. Cassidy, J.-Y. Chaufray (2019) Dusk Over Dawn O2 Asymmetry in Europa’s Near-Surface Atmosphere. Planetary and Space Science, Volume 167, p. 23-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2019.01.006


  • C. Schmidt, N. Schneider, F. Leblanc, C. Gray, J. Morgenthaler, J. Turner, and C. Grava (2018) A Survey of Visible S+ Emission in Io's Plasma Torus During the Hisaki Epoch. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 123. doi.org/10.1029/2018JA025296 (Also: a link to results from an updated dataset)


  • F. Leblanc, A. Oza, L. Leclercq, C. Schmidt, T. Cassidy, R. Modolo, J.Y. Chaufray, R. E. Johnson (2017) On the Orbital Variability of Ganymede’s Atmosphere. Icarus, Vol. 293, p. 185-198. doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2017.04.025


  • J. D. Turner, D. Christie, P. Arras, R. E. Johnson, C. Schmidt (2016) Investigation of the environment around close-in transiting exoplanets using CLOUDY. Monthly Notices fo the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol 458 (4), p.3880-3891. doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw556


  • C. Schmidt (2016) High Resolution Integral-Field Spectroscopy of Gas and Ion Distributions in the Coma of Comet C/2012 S1 ISON. Icarus, Vol 265, p. 35-41. doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2015.10.009


  • R. E. Johnson, A. Oza, L. A. Young, A. N. Volkov and C. Schmidt (2015) Volatile Loss and Classification of Kuiper Belt Objects. Astrophysical Journal, Volume 809, Issue 1, article id. 43. doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/809/1/43


  • N.-E. Raouafi, C. M. Lisse, G. Stenborg, G. H. Jones, and C. Schmidt (2015) Dynamics of HVECs emitted from comet C/2011 L4 as observed by STEREO. Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 120, Issue 7, pp. 5329-5340. doi.org/10.1002/2014JA020926


  • C. Schmidt, R.E. Johnson, J. Baumgardner, M. Mendillo (2015) Observations of Sodium in the Coma of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) During Outburst. Icarus, Vol 247, p. 313-318. doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2014.10.022


  • C. Schmidt (2013) Monte-Carlo Modeling of North-South Asymmetries in Mercury’s Sodium Exosphere, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol 118, A50396. doi.org/10.1002/jgra.50396


  • C. Schmidt, J. Baumgardner, M. Mendillo., J. Wilson (2012) Escape rates and variability constraints for high-energy sodium sources at Mercury, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol 117, A03301. doi.org/10.1029/2011JA017217


  • C. Schmidt, J. Wilson, J. Baumgardner, M. Mendillo (2010) Orbital Effects on Mercury’s Escaping Sodium Exosphere, Icarus, Vol 207, Issue 1, p. 9-16. doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2009.10.017


  • F. Hearty and 11 co-authors including C. Schmidt (2005) Colorados Near-Infrared Camera (AKA NIC-FPS) Commissioning on the ARC 3.5M Telescope, Proc. SPIE, Vol 5904, p. 199-211. doi.org/10.1117/12.617593