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MAJOR PUBLICATIONS
S. Sheppard, D. Jewitt, C. Trujillo, M. Brown, and M. Ashley, "A Wide-Field CCD Survey for Centaurs and Kuiper Belt Objects" 2000, AJ, 120, 2687.
W. Brandner, S. Sheppard, H. Zinnecker, L. Close, F. Iwamuro, A. Krabbe, T. Maihara, K. Motohara, D. Padgett, and A. Tokunaga "VLT-Detection of Two Edge-On Circumstellar Disks in the rho Oph Dark Cloud" 2000, AA, 364, L13.
Y. Fernandez, D. Jewitt, S. Sheppard "Low Albedos Among Extinct Comet Candidates" 2001, ApJ, 553, 197L.
W. Brandner, D. Potter, S. Sheppard, A. Moneti, and H. Zinnecker "The Evolution of Circumstellar Disks: Lessons from the VLT and ISO" 2001, in "The Origin of Stars and Planets: The VLT View" (ESO Publication), Eds. J. Alves and M. McCaughrean, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg.
D. Jewitt and S. Sheppard "Physical Properties of the Trans-Neptunian Object (20000) Varuna" 2002, AJ, 123, 2110.
S. Sheppard and D. Jewitt "Time-Resolved Photometry of Kuiper Belt Objects: Rotations, Shapes and Phase Functions" 2002, AJ, 124, 1757.
Y. Fernandez, D. Jewitt, S. Sheppard "Thermal Properties of Centaurs Asbolus and Chiron" 2002, AJ, 123, 1050.
S. Sheppard and D. Jewitt "The Shapes, Densities, and Phase Functions of Trans-Neptunian Objects" 2002, in "Proceedings of Asteroids, Comets and Meteors" Ed. B. Warmbein, ESA Special Publication Series.
N. McBride, S. Green, J. Davies, D. Tholen, S. Sheppard, R. Whiteley, and J. Hillier "Visible and Infrared Photometry of Kuiper Belt Objects: Searching for Evidence of Trends" 2003, Icarus, 161, 501-510.
S. Sheppard and D. Jewitt "An Abundant Population of Small Irregular Satellites Around Jupiter" 2003, Nature, 423, 261-263.
D. Jewitt, S. Sheppard, and Y. Fernandez "143P/Kowal-Mrkos and the Shapes of Cometary Nuclei" 2003, AJ, 125, 3366-3377.
Y. Fernandez, S. Sheppard, and D. Jewitt "The Albedo Distribution of Jovian Trojan Asteroids" 2003, AJ, 126, 1563.
S. Sheppard and D. Jewitt "Hawaii Kuiper Belt Variability Project: An Update" 2003, Earth, Moon and Planets, 92, 207-219.
D. Jewitt and S. Sheppard "The Nucleus of Comet 48P/Johnson" 2004, AJ, 127, 1784.
S. Sheppard and D. Jewitt "Extreme Kuiper Belt Object 2001 QG298 and the Fraction of Contact Binaries" 2004, AJ, 127, 3023.
D. Jewitt, S. Sheppard, and C. Porco "Jupiter's Outer Satellites and Trojans" 2004, in "Jupiter: The Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere" ed. F. Bagenal, T. Dowling and W. McKinnon, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), Chap. 12.
S. Sheppard and D. Jewitt "The Abundant Irregular Satellites of the Giant Planets" in "Highlights of Astronomy" Vol. 13, International Astronomical Union, Ed. O. Engvold.
S. Sheppard, D. Jewitt and J. Kleyna "A Survey for Outer Satellites of Mars: Limits to Completeness" 2004, AJ, 128, 2542.
D. Jewitt and S. Sheppard "Irregular Satellites in the Context of Planet Formation" 2005, Space Sci. Rev., 116, 441.
S. Sheppard, D. Jewitt and J. Kleyna "Ultra Deep Survey for Irregular Satellites of Uranus: Limits to Completeness" 2005, AJ, 129, 518.
Y. Fernandez, D. Jewitt and S. Sheppard "Albedos of Asteroids in Comet-Like Orbits" 2005, AJ, 130, 308.
P. Abell, Y. Fernandez, P. Pravec, L. French, T. Farnham, M. M. Gaffey, P. Hardersen, P. Kusnirak, L. Sarounnova, S. Sheppard and G. Narayan "Physical Characteristics of Comet Nucleus C/2001 OG108 (LONEOS)" 2005, Icarus, 179, 174.
S. Sheppard "A planet more, a planet less" 2006, Nature, 439, 541.
S. Sheppard "Outer Irregular Satellites of the Planets and Their Relationship with Asteroids, Comets and Kuiper Belt Objects" 2006, invited review in "Asteroids, Comets and Meteors: IAU Symposium 229" ed. D. Lazzaro, S. Ferraz-Mello and J. Fernandez, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 319-334.
S. Sheppard, D. Jewitt and J. Kleyna "A Survey for "Normal" Irregular Satellites Around Neptune: Limits to Completeness" 2006, Astron. J., 132, 171.
S. Sheppard and C. Trujillo "A Thick Cloud of Neptune Trojans and Their Colors" 2006, Science, 313, 511-514.
S. Sheppard "Small Bodies in the Outer Solar System" 2006, invited review for New Horizons in Astronomy, ASP Conference Series, 352, 3.
S. Sheppard "Dwarf Plutonian Planets and other Large Kuiper Belt Objects: Their Rotations, Phase Functions and Absolute Magnitudes" 2007, Astron. J., 134, 787.
E. Berger, D. Fox, P. Price, ... S. Sheppard, ... et al. "A New Population of High Redshift Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts" 2007, ApJ, 664, 1000.
P. Nicholson, M. Cuk, S. Sheppard, D. Nesvorny, T. Johnson "Irregular Satellites of the Giant Planets" chapter in "The Solar System Beyond Neptune" ed. A. Barucci, H. Boehnhardt, D. Cruikshank and A. Morbidelli, (Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press), 2008.
S. Sheppard, P. Lacerda, J. Ortiz "Photometric Light Curves of Trans-Neptunian Objects and Centaurs: Rotations, Shapes and Densities" chapter in "The Solar System Beyond Neptune" ed. A Barucci, H. Boehnhardt, D. Cruikshank and A. Morbidelli, (Tuscson: Univ. of Arizona Press), 2008.
S. Sheppard and M. Cushing "An Infrared High Proper Motion Survey Using The 2MASS and SDSS: Discovery of M, L, and T Dwarfs" 2009, Astron. J., 137, 304-314.
M. Brucker, W. Grundy, J. Stansberry, J. Spencer, S. Sheppard, E. Chiang and M. Buie "High Albedos of Low Inclination Classical Kuiper Belt Objects" 2009, Icarus, 201, 284-294.
S. Sheppard and C. Trujillo "A Survey for Satellites of Venus" 2009, Icarus, 202, 12-16.
S. Sheppard "The Colors of Extreme Outer Solar System Objects" 2010, Astron. J., 139, 1394-1405.
J. Elliot, M. Person, C. Zuluaga,.. S. Sheppard, ... et al. "Size and Albedo of Kuiper Belt Object 55636 from a Stellar Occultation" 2010, Nature, 465, 897-900.
S. Sheppard and C. Trujillo "Detection of a Trailing (L5) Neptune Trojan" 2010, Science, 329, 1304.
S. Sheppard and C. Trujillo "The Size Distribution of the Neptune Trojans and the Missing Intermediate Sized Planetesimals" 2010, ApJ, 723, L233-L237.
J. Li, M. Kuchner, R. Allen and S. Sheppard "Measuring the Sizes, Shapes, Surface Features and Rotations of Solar System Objects with Interferometry" 2011, Icarus, 211, 1007-1021.
C. Trujillo, S. Sheppard, and E. Schaller "A Photometric System for Detection of Water and Methane Ices on Kuiper Belt Objects" 2011, ApJ, 730, 105.
M. Brozovic, R. Jacobson and S. Sheppard "The Orbits of Neptune's Outer Satellites" 2011, AJ, 141, 135.
S. Sheppard, A. Udalski, C. Trujillo, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, R. Poleski, I. Soszynski, M. Szymanski and K. Ulaczyk "A Southern Sky and Galactic Plane Survey for Bright Kuiper Belt Objects" 2011, AJ, 142, 98.
S. Sheppard, D. Ragozzine, and C. Trujillo "2007 TY430: A Cold Classical Kuiper Belt Type Binary in the Plutino Population" 2012, AJ, 143, 58.
S. Sheppard "The Color Differences of Kuiper Belt Objects in Resonance with Neptune" 2012, AJ, 144, 169.
G. Mace, D. Kirkpatrick, M. Cushing,.. S. Sheppard, .. et al. "A Study of the Diverse T Dwarf Population Revealed by WISE" 2013, ApJS, 205, 6.
A. Parker, M. Buie, D. Osip,.. S. Sheppard, .. et al. "Discovery of a High-Inclination L5 Neptune Trojan in the Search for a Post-Pluto New Horizons Target" 2013, AJ, 145, 96.
S. Benecchi and S. Sheppard "Light Curves of 32 Large Transneptunian Objects" 2013, AJ, 145, 124.
M. Person, T. Brothers, S. Sallum,.. S. Sheppard, .. et al. "Constraint on the Size of Kuiper Belt Object (50000) Quaoar from a Single Chord Occultation" 2013, Icarus, in press.
A. Burgasser, S. Sheppard and K. Luhman "Resolved Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of WISE J104915.57-531906.1AB: A Flux-Reversal Binary at the L dwarf/T dwarf Transition" 2013, ApJ, submitted.
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ADS Link for Scott S. Sheppard
Astro-ph link for Scott S. Sheppard
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Other Selected Publications and Popular Articles
S. Sheppard "Synchronous Rotation of Moons" 2002, Astronomy Magazine, March
S. Sheppard "Jupiter Satellites: 39 and Counting" 2002, Mercury, 31, 10
S. Sheppard "Outer Jovian Satellites" 2002, IAU Comm 16 Triennial Report
S. Sheppard "Small Satellites of the Giant Planets" 2005, IAU Comm 16 Triennial Report
S. Sheppard "Decision Time for Space Exploration: Where in the Heavens Do We Go Next" 2005, San Francisco Chronicle, October 10
S. Sheppard "What is a Planet?" 2006, Sky and Telescope, (January), 111, 14
D. Jewitt, S. Sheppard and J. Kleyna "The Strangest Satellites in the Solar System" 2006, Scientific American (August 2006), 295, 23-29
S. Sheppard "Pluto and the Kuiper Belt" 2007, essay in "The Universe" by R. Freedman and W. Kaufmann III, (New York: W.H. Freeman and Company), 401-402
S. Sheppard "Natural Satellites" 2009, World Book
S. Sheppard "Finding the Small Moons of the Outer Planets: A Satellite Revolution" 2009, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 21, 1 (Astronomy Beat, April)
S. Sheppard "The Kuiper Belt" 2011, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 11th edition
S. Sheppard "Gathering Moons" 2012, Astronomy Magazine, (November)
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Meeting Abstracts
S. Sheppard and D. Lien "The Dust Tail of P/Halley: Constraints on the Rotation of the Nucleus" AAS DPS, #28, #08.10, (1996).
S. Sheppard, D. Jewitt, C. Trujillo, M. Brown, and M. Ashley "The Centaur Population" AAS DPS, #32, #19.04, (2000)
S. Sheppard and D. Jewitt "Mauna Kea Physical Observations of Kuiper Belt Objects" Physical Properties of Kuiper Belt Objects Workshop, Meudon, France, (2001)
S. Sheppard and D. Jewitt "Jupiter's Irregular Satellite System" The Jupiter Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, (2001)
S. Sheppard and D. Jewitt "Lightcurves of 13 Kuiper Belt Objects" AAS DPS, (2001)
S. Sheppard and D. Jewitt "The Shape Distribution and Phase Functions of Trans-Neptunian Objects" ACM, Berlin, Germany, (2002)
S. Sheppard and D. Jewitt "The Irregular Satellites of Jupiter" AAS DPS, (2002)
S. Sheppard and D. Jewitt "Light Variations of Kuiper Belt Objects" First Decadal Review of the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt, Chile, (2003)
S. Sheppard and D. Jewitt "The Abundant Irregular Satellites of the Giant Planets" IAU General Assembly, Sydney, Australia, (2003)
S. Sheppard and D. Jewitt "Recent Results From The Hawaii Trans-Neptunian Variability Project" AAS DPS, (2003)
S. Sheppard and D. Jewitt "A Contact Binary in the Kuiper Belt?" AAS DPS, (2004)
S. Sheppard and C. Trujillo "The Discovery of 2004 UP10: The Second Known Neptune Trojan" ACM, Buzios, Brazil, (2005)
S. Sheppard "Outer Irregular Satellites of the Planets and their Relationship with Asteroids, Comets and Kuiper Belt Objects", Invited Review ACM 2005
S. Sheppard and C. Trujillo "A Deep Survey for Trojan Asteroids of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune", AAS DPS, (2005)
S. Sheppard "Asteroids, Kuiper Belt Objects, Comets, Satellites and the Formation of Our Solar System", Invited talk for the New Horizons Bash Symposium 2005, Austin, Texas
S. Sheppard and C. Trujillo "The Neptune Trojans: Their Colors, Population and Inclination Distribution", Trans-Neptunian Objects Workshop, Catania, Italy, (2006)
S. Sheppard and C. Trujillo "A Survey for Trojan Asteroids of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune", AAS DPS, (2006), 38, 4403
S. Sheppard "Photometric Variability of the Largest Kuiper Belt Objects: Evidence for Uniform Surfaces", AAS DPS, (2007), 39, 3907
S. Sheppard and C. Trujillo "The Paucity of Small Neptune Trojans", AAS DPS, (2008), 40, 3806
S. Sheppard and C. Cushing "New High Proper Motion M, L and T Dwarfs Discovered in the Infrared", AAS, (2009), 41, 291
S. Sheppard "The Colors of Inner Oort Cloud, Detached/Extended Disk and Retrograde Outer Solar System Objects", AAS DPS, (2009), 41, 1124
S. Sheppard and C. Trujillo "Where are the Missing Intermediate Sized Planetesimals?", TNO Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (July 2010)
S. Sheppard, A. Udalski, C. Trujillo and the OGLE TEAM "A Southern Sky and Galactic Plane Survey for Bright Kuiper Belt Objects", AAS DPS, (2010), 42, 992
S. Sheppard, D. Ragozzine and C. Trujillo "2007 TY430: An Ultra-Red, High Albedo, Low Density, Wide, Equal-Sized Plutino Binary" AAS DPS, (2011)
S. Sheppard "The Colors of Kuiper Belt Objects in Resonance with Neptune", ACM, 2012, Japan
S. Sheppard "The Ultra-Red Color of Kuiper Belt Objects in the 5:3 and 7:4 Mean Motion Neptune Resonances", AAS DPS, (2012)
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Observations
Too many (>200 and counting) Minor Planet Electronic Circulars (MPECs) to keep track of.
IAUC 7525 "Lost Moon of Jupiter Found: S/1975 J1 = S/2000 J1"
IAUC 7555 "10 New Satellites of Jupiter Discovered: S/2000 J2 - S/2000 J11"
IAUC 7619 "Lightcurve of Kuiper Belt Object 2000 GN171"
IAUC 7900 "11 New Satellites of Jupiter: S/2001 J1 - S/2001 J11"
IAUC 7935 "Fragmentation of comet 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte"
IAUC 7966 "Discovery of components to comet C/2002 Q3 (Linear)"
IAUC 8035 "New Jupiter Satellite S/2002 J1"
IAUC 8087 "7 New Satellites of Jupiter"
IAUC 8088 "2003 J8, New Satellite of Jupiter"
IAUC 8089 "4 New Satellites of Jupiter"
IAUC 8116 "6 New Satellites of Jupiter and 1 New Satellite of Saturn"
IAUC 8125 "S/2003 J19 and S/2003 J20 New Satellites of Jupiter"
IAUC 8138 "S/2003 J21 New Satellite of Jupiter"
IAUC 8193 "S/2003 N1 New Satellite of Neptune" (September 2003)
IAUC 8213 "S/2001 U2 New Satellite of Uranus" (October 2003)
IAUC 8217 "S/2003 U3 New Satellite of Uranus" (October 2003)
IAUC 8276 "New Satellite of Jupiter S/2003 J22" (January 2004)
IAUC 8281 "New Satellite of Jupiter S/2003 J23" (February 2004)
IAUC 8305 "Comet P/2004 DO29 (SPACEWATCH-LINEAR)" (March 2004)
IAUC 8321 "Comet P/2004 DZ61 (CATALINA-LINEAR)" (April 2004)
IAUC 8523 "12 New Satellites of Saturn" (May 2005)
IAUC 8637 "Comet C/2004 YJ35 (LINEAR)" (December 2005)
IAUC 8727 "9 New Satellites of Saturn" (June 2006)
IAUC 8836 "3 New Satellites of Satun: S/2007 S1, S/2007 S2, and S/2007 S3" (May 2007)
IAUC 8962 "Discovery of a Satellite to KBO 2007 TY430" (August 2008)
IAUC 9252 "Discovery of Jupiter Satellites S/2011 J1 and S/2011 J2" (June 2012)
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e-mail at sheppard at dtm.ciw.edu (replace "at" with @)
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